Abstract: An image forming system, includes: an image former that performs image formation on a transfer medium; and a controller that acquires a detection result of detecting the transfer medium by a detector with respect to a length of the transfer medium, wherein the controller sets an image forming condition for the transfer medium on the basis of the length of the transfer medium obtained from the detection result.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus which performs a printing job and an erasing job is provided. Included is a control unit which, in a case of performing the other job after any one of the printing job and the erasing job, controls a transporting unit of the sheet so that the sheet for the other job is transported to a predetermined standby position from a sheet feeding unit while the one job is performed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a reading section to read a document and to obtain image data, the document including a plurality of sheets and having a binding portion; a storage section to store the image data; an operating section to accept an operating instruction to designate a position of the binding portion of the document, to designate a page order on one side of the binding portion of the document, and to designate one face out of faces of the sheets, from which a reading operation is started; and a controller, in accordance with the designation, to determine an image area corresponding to one page of the document, to divide the image data into pieces of page image data based on the image area, and to respectively give identifiers to the pieces of the divided page image data following a page order of the document.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a data input section to input document image data including cover sheet image data and body text image data; an image forming section to form an image on a recording medium based on the document image data; an input section to input a shift instruction for shifting a print area of the document image data; and a control section to control the image forming section so that images are formed by shifting only a body text image corresponding to the body text image data of the document image data on the recording medium while not shifting a cover sheet image corresponding to the cover sheet image data of the document image data, based on the shift instruction inputted from the input section.

Abstract: This invention relates to a technique that prevents an image from falling outside a given range when a printer is controlled to form an image on an arbitrary medium while assuring a margin of a predetermined amount. A host computer shifts an image by only a partial amount of a target margin amount in a predetermined direction within an effective print range of a medium. Furthermore, the host computer controls a printer to form the image by further shifting the image by nearly the remaining amount of the target margin amount so as to form an image within the effective print range. In this way, since the host computer and printer add a margin in two steps, print data can be prevented from falling outside a given range upon processing a binding margin on the printer side.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus which previews a read image is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a preview image processing unit in which a user is allowed to set a processing condition for the read preview image by operating on the read preview image and a preview image processed by the processing condition is displayed together with the setting of the processing condition on a displaying section.

Abstract: An image copying apparatus includes a control panel to a user interface; a scanner; a memory that stores an image; an image rotation processing unit that rotates the image depending on the direction in which the image is to be printed; a printer; a printer controller; and a system controller. The printer includes a light-emitting element, an image printing start position adjusting element that adjusts a start position of a printing position of the image to be printed, an image printing area adjusting element that sets a printing area of the image to be printed, a polygon mirror, and a polygon motor. According to the image copying apparatus, even when the size of a read image has been adjusted at the time of printing, the printing results of the same manuscript can be made the same regardless of differences in the printing direction.

Abstract: A print control apparatus and a print control method perform optimum page layout processing in accordance with properties of output apparatus capable of book bind printing. The order of sheets and the order of sides are obtained as book bind print setting information from the type of printer capable of book bind printing or paper discharge orifice or the type of finisher, then based on the obtained setting information, the page layout upon book bind printing is determined, and print data transmitted to the output apparatus is generated in accordance with the determined page layout.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a page of a booklet having different size pages. The image forming apparatus includes a setting unit for determining an image forming area on a page having the smallest size; a magnification modification unit for modifying a magnification of an original image on an original document so that the original image fits the image forming area set by the setting unit; and an image forming unit for forming the original image at the magnification modified by the magnification modification unit on the different size pages.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided to easily form a cover sheet for covering a sheaf of plural sheets without burdening a user. In the apparatus which can input plural images to be formed on an identical face of the cover sheet for covering the sheaf of the plural sheets by using the input unit, information concerning a thickness of the sheaf of the plural sheets is obtained, and it is controlled that the plural images input by the input unit are disposed at an interval based on the obtained information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reversing unit for reversing a two-sided document and placing the document on a platen, a reading unit for reading image data of either a front or back side of the document placed on the platen by the reversing unit, and at least one of: (i) a first detecting/setting unit for providing first information representing a position on which a binding margin of the document is located and a direction in which a top or bottom portion of the document is directed, and (ii) a second detecting/setting unit for providing second information representing a position on which a binding margin of an image to be printed is located and a direction in which a top or bottom portion of the image to be printed is directed.

Abstract: An apparatus allowing double-leaved side wiring or saddle wiring of copied sheets of paper performs the following process for forming an image on a two-page spread. In accordance with the direction of the document set on the apparatus, whether or not the image formed on the document should be divided and turned to an image of a two-page spread is determined. When a two-page spread image is to be formed, a blank page is inserted to the images to be printed on the sheets, or the order of images to be printed is exchanged. Thus an image is properly formed on a two-page spread.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image recording apparatus comprising a document size detection sensor 103 for recognizing a size of an image to be recorded, an image input section 101 for reading and storing therein the image to be recorded, a paper feeder (not shown herein) for storing therein and feeding recording paper having a specified size, an image forming section 108 for forming an image on recording paper fed from the paper feeder, an image processing section 106 for dividing a read image to two portions based on a result of detection by the document size detection sensor 103 when a size of the image to be recorded is larger than recording paper having a specified size and executing image processing for displacing a central position of each image so that an edge section of each image will be aligned to an edge of a binding space of each discrete sheet of recording paper, and an image output section 107 for outputting an image processed by the image processing section 108.

Abstract: A simplified automated process for printing duplex copy sheets with correct edge margins from first and second original documents having a different dimension than the copy sets so that the duplex copy sheets will have substantially equal margins from the image areas on both sides of the duplex copy sheets irrespective of these different sheet sizes, including measuring at least one dimension of an original document sheet and automatically subtracting the known size dimension of the selected copy sheets in the dimension which includes the margin from the corresponding dimension of the original document sheet to determine a desired duplex image shift dimension, and shifting the image printed on second side of the copy sheet from the second original document by a distance corresponding to the calculated shift to produce duplex copy sheets with substantially equal margins.