Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that efficiently performs peer-to-peer distributed processing of production printing by grouping. The storage unit stores capability information indicating capabilities of processability in rasterizing process, printing process, and post-processing process. The group setting unit sets a group that designates an apparatus capable of processing the job based on the capability information stored in the storage unit. The job collection unit collects the job corresponding to the group set by the group setting unit by determining from processing requirement of the job. The processing management unit transmits the job collected by the job collection unit to the apparatus designated in the group and requests processing thereof.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor and a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor and controls an information processing apparatus, in which the processor is configured to simultaneously display, in an operation screen, a selection list of tasks for selecting a task to be executed by the information processing apparatus and a slide button as an execution button for instructing execution of the selected task, and once an operation of instructing execution of the task by the slide button is detected, performs control to change the slide button to a cancel button for canceling the task that is being executed.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an input device, an image processing device, an image forming device, a delivery device, and a controller. The controller causes the image processing device to execute RIP operation in forward order with respect to print data, upon receipt, through the input device, of a first instruction indicating one of a combination of reverse order and face-up, and a combination of forward order and face-down, as combination of sorting order and face orientation at delivery of a recording medium having an image formed thereon, and causes the image processing device to execute RIP operation in reverse order with respect to the print data, upon receipt, through the input device, of a second instruction indicating one of a combination of forward order and face-up, and a combination of reverse order and face-down, as the combination of the sorting order and the face orientation at delivery.

Abstract: A conveyor is configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction. A print engine is configured to perform image recording of recording an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyor. A cutter is configured to cut the sheet. A display is configured to display a screen. A controller is configured to: control the print engine to perform the image recording based on acquired first recording data; control the cutter to cut the sheet at a particular position; in response to determining that recording of the first recording data is not performed on at least one of sheets acquired by cutting of the cutter, control the display to display a first object indicating that a blank sheet will be generated after the cutting, the blank sheet being a sheet on which an image can be recorded.

Abstract: A method for asset routing including receiving a digital asset, determining a set of print partners for the digital asset, determining a set of candidate batches for the digital asset, selecting a print partner for the digital asset, optionally determining a print partner for an unmatched digital asset, and routing the digital asset to the print partner.

Abstract: When first print data and second print data are selected as a target of collective printing and when a first print setting applied to printing of the first print data and a second print setting applied to printing of the second print data are inconsistent with each other, a printing apparatus provides a user with a first procedure for making the first print setting and the second print setting consistent with each other, and when the first print setting and the second print setting are consistent with each other, the printing apparatus performs collective printing of the first print data and the second print data.

Abstract: A printing system for printing on tabbed media having a plurality of tab positions. A media transport system picks the next sheet of tabbed media from a media tray. A detection system detects the tab position for the sheet of tabbed media. The detected tab position is compared to an expected tab position and if the detected tab position is different from the expected tab position then either the front end is used to supply image data to be printed on the sheet of tabbed media having the detected tab position, or the media transport system is controlled to direct the sheet of tabbed media into a waste receptacle and pick one or more additional sheets of tabbed media until the detected tab position is the same as the expected tab position.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming section that forms an image on a recording material in accordance with a print job and a first reception section that receives a command about output of the print job; and a post-processing apparatus that includes a post-processing section that performs post-processing on the recording material transported from the image forming apparatus in accordance with the print job and a second reception section that receives a command about the post-processing and that receives a command about re-output of the print job in a case where the print job is to be possibly re-output.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image forming control method, an image forming apparatus, and a non-transitory storage medium. The image forming control method includes acquiring job data and job parameters corresponding to the job data, where the job parameters include an image post-processing direction and a job data direction; determining a sheet feed direction based on the image post-processing direction and the job data direction in conjunction with a pre-stored corresponding relationship for characterizing a preset image post-processing direction, a preset job data direction, and a preset sheet feed direction; and based on the sheet feed direction, the job data, the job data direction, and the image post-processing direction, controlling an image forming device to perform an image forming operation, and controlling an image post-processing device to perform an image post-processing operation.

Abstract: An estimated temperature adjustment time, the number of times of temperature adjustments, and so on for printing jobs in a current print sequence are displayed together with an estimated print time, and the print sequence can be changed so as to decrease the number of times of temperature adjustments.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which an external apparatus is connected includes an image forming unit configured to form an image, and a power supply device configured to supply power to the image forming apparatus and the external apparatus. In a case where a value of an alternating current voltage input to the power supply device is a first value, the power supply device supplies first power to the external apparatus. In a case where the value of the alternating current voltage is a second value smaller than the first value, the power supply device supplies second power smaller than the first power to the external apparatus.

Abstract: A printing system including a first printer and a second printer is provided with: a job group creation unit that creates a job group defining a plurality of jobs to be grouped and a print order thereof; a job group storage unit that stores information on the print order of the plurality of jobs; a job group updating unit that updates the information on the print order stored in the job group storage unit based on information on an output order when printing is executed by the second printer; and a print instruction unit that instructs the first printer to execute printing based on the plurality of jobs in the print order stored in the job group storage unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a post-processing unit, and a controller. The controller includes a paper-type setting section configured to set a paper type of a paper feeding section, a storing section configured to store a plurality of paper types for which specific post processing is possible, and a control executing section. The printing output data includes paper type designation information, paper feeding section designation information, and post-processing designation information.

Abstract: In a crimp-binding device, a sheet jam less occurs when binding processing is performed. A sheet crimp-binding device includes: a conveying path along which a sheet is conveyed in a predetermined conveying direction; a placing part on which the sheet conveyed along the conveying path is placed; a stack part provided at a location downstream from the placing part in the sheet conveying direction; a discharge unit that discharges the sheet from the placing part to the stack part; a shift unit that moves the sheet placed on a placing position on the placing part in a direction along a sheet surface and perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction; a crimp-binding unit that applies crimp-binding processing to sheets that have been moved in the direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction by the shift unit to a crimp-binding position; a recognition unit that recognizes count information of a sheet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus sets a setting value about an operation of a first application, and executes the first application with use of the set setting value. The image forming apparatus holds a setting value for a library which is used when a function of the first application is provided as the library, and changes the set setting value to the held setting value for the library when the function of the first application is provided as the library.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: a first image forming apparatus including a first fixer that fixes an image formed on a recording medium to the recording medium; a second image forming apparatus including a second fixer that fixes an image formed on the recording medium to the recording medium, the second image forming apparatus being connected to a downstream side of the first image forming apparatus in a transport direction of the recording medium; and a hardware processor that determines first transport control content in which the recording medium is transported in the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus, and sets second transport control content so that the recording medium that has been processed by the first fixer is processed in a different position by the second fixer.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an acquisition unit that acquires setting information indicating an execution condition which is set to execute printing from printing instruction information for giving an instruction for execution of the printing, a first designation unit that designates an execution condition which is different from the execution condition related to the setting information acquired from the printing instruction information as an exception for plural specific page images included in the printing instruction information, and a second designation unit that repeatedly designates the exception designated by the first designation unit every number of pages of the plural specific page images for plural page images other than the plural specific page images.

Abstract: A method for generating a data processing pipeline is provided. The method may include generating a user interface for displaying, at a client, a first operator node and a second operator node. The first operator node and the second operator node may each correspond to a data processing operation. In response to one or more inputs received from the client via the user interface, the first operator node and/or the second operator node may be added to a graph displayed in the user interface. The graph may be representative of a data processing pipeline. The first operator node and the second operator node may further be interconnected with an directed edge. The data processing pipeline may be generated based on the graph. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a recording medium capable of reproducing a plurality of copies of a document bundle while reducing the storage capacity of a storage device. In the image processing apparatus, a number of copies of a document bundle to be a reading target by an image reading unit that reads image data from each of the documents included in one or a plurality of copies of a document bundle is specified. Then, in a case where the specified number of copies of the document bundle is plural, document bundle image data corresponding to one copy of the document bundle of the image data read by the image reading unit, and specification information including at least the number of copies of the document bundle specified by the specification processing unit are correlated and stored.

Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for estimating ink use by a printer is provided. The method involves receiving, by a computer, a request for a comingled print job comprising a plurality of print jobs to be carried out by the printer. The method also involves traversing, by the computer, pages of the comingled print job and identifying, for each page of the comingled print job, a print job of the plurality of print jobs to which the page belongs. The method also involves for each of the plurality of print jobs, calculating, by the computer, an estimated total amount of ink required for printing the print job. The method also involves communicating, by the computer, to a client terminal, the estimated total amounts of ink required for printing the plurality of print jobs.

Abstract: An image forming system displays warning information representing a state of no printing sheet detected in a first sheet holding unit, and displays information representing a normal state of no sheet printing sheet detected in the second sheet holding unit. In a case where a transition occurs from a state where at least one printing sheet is in the second sheet holding unit to a state where there are no sheets in the second sheet holding unit while the image forming apparatus performs printing using the printing sheets held in the second sheet holding unit, displaying warning information representing a state of no printing sheet in the second sheet holding unit and changes to information representing a normal state in the second sheet holding unit if a predetermined period has passed.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores computer-executable instructions, which constitute a particular program, for a terminal device. The instructions cause, when executed by the controller, the terminal device to perform obtaining printable area information indicating a printable area on a printing medium loaded to the printer, outputting a command instructing printing of a first image to the printer, determining whether a shortening condition is satisfied, a period for the short-time printing process is shorter than that for a normal printing process. When it is determined that the shortening condition is not satisfied, the controller outputs a first command causing the printer to print the first image within a normal printable area on the printing medium. When it is determined that the shortening condition is satisfied, the controller outputs a second command causing the printer to print the first image within a reduced area which is smaller than the printable area.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to instruct a conveyance unit to convey a first sheet, and a detection unit configured to detect a size of the conveyed first sheet, the detected size being used for image processing for printing on a different sheet from the first sheet. The instruction unit is configured to instruct, before the detection unit detects the size of the first sheet, the conveyance unit to convey a sheet next to the first sheet.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of a computer, cause the processor to: receive preparation instruction information from an information processing terminal, in response to receiving the preparation instruction information, cause an operating unit to execute at least one pre-printing operation of which operation content accords with a particular execution condition indicated by particular condition information in the preparation instruction information, receive print instruction information from the information processing terminal, the print instruction information instructing execution of the printing operation according to an execution condition, in response to receiving the print instruction information, determine whether the at least one pre-printing operation has already been executed; and in response to determining that the at least one pre-printing operation has been executed, cause the operating unit to execute

Abstract: A print system with a ratio-based adaptive switching technique includes a printing unit to print an image on a recording medium in a color mode or a monochrome mode. A number (cM) of monochrome pages printed in the color mode and a total number (pN) of printed pages are monitored. A ratio cM/pN that is indicative of excess cartridge wear of the print system is determined. Print-job performance and cartridge wear of the print system are optimized based on the determined ratio using a first and second threshold.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing device, a temperature detection device, a driving device, a printed sheet number counting unit, a fixing voltage power supply, and a control unit. The fixing device includes a fixing member constituted of a heated rotary member heated by a heating device and a pressure member contacting the heated rotary member to form a fixing nip. The temperature detection device detects surface temperature of the heated rotary member in a non-passing area. The control unit changes a productivity in two or more steps from a default setting, on the basis of an accumulated number of printed sheets from start of a productivity change mode counted by the printed sheet number counting unit, and the surface temperature of the non-passing area detected by the temperature detection device, and changes control temperature of the fixing member in accordance with the productivity.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit that performs recording on a medium; a medium discharging section that discharges the medium on which recording has been performed; a medium receiving section that receives the medium discharged by the medium discharging section; a face-down discharge path that guides, to the medium discharge section, the recorded medium with a recorded side thereof facing downward; a document movement path that is provided at an upper part of a housing constituting an outer casing of the recording apparatus and along which a document moves; and a reading unit provided in the document movement path to read the document. The medium receiving section also serves as a support tray that supports the document to be inserted into the document movement path or the document exiting from the document movement path.

Abstract: The printer includes an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet and a media sensor which detects a characteristic of the sheet. If the characteristics of the sheet do not support automatic double-sided printing, the printer forms an image on the first side of the sheet and discharges the sheet to an FD sheet discharge portion or an FU sheet discharge portion. After discharging the sheet, the printer instructs a user to place the discharged sheet on a cassette or a manual feed tray. If the sheet having the image formed on the first side is placed on the cassette or the manual feed tray, the printer forms an image on a second side of the sheet.

Abstract: In a case where double-sided printing is set and a predetermined binding direction is set as a print setting for printing on a predetermined type of medium, a printing apparatus performs second rotation processing on an image targeted for printing transmitted from a terminal apparatus such that an orientation of the image targeted for printing returns to an orientation of the image obtained before first rotation processing is performed on the image by the terminal apparatus, and then performs single-sided printing of the image targeted for printing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printing device to perform normal printing of a job according to a setting, and processing circuitry to: accept a request for executing printing of another job while the printing device is performing the normal printing of the job according to the setting; when the request for executing printing of another job is a request for executing trial printing, control the printing device to interrupt the normal printing of the job to perform the trial printing of the another job; and control an ejection device to discharge a recording medium printed in the normal printing of the job and a recording medium printed in the trial printing of the another job on different sheet discharge trays.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing discharged sheet adhesion while lowering degradation of productivity. A print unit prints an image on a sheet based on a print job. A fixing unit fixes the image primed on the sheet to the sheet. The sheet to which the image is fixed is discharged to a discharge tray. A counter counts discharged sheet number that is the number of sheets discharged to the discharge tray during a continuous print operation. A controller controls the print unit so as to lower productivity that is discharging sheet number per unit time in response to increase in the discharged sheet number counted by the counter and so as to recover the productivity in a case where the sheets discharged to the discharge tray are removed in a state where the productivity is lowered.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device including a photosensitive unit having a photoreceptor and a developing unit having a developing. A light scanning unit including a light source may be included to generate light to form an electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor through a window through which the light is transmitted, and shutter unit may be included to open and close the window. At least one pressing unit is provided to press the developing unit to cause the developing roller separated from the photoreceptor to contact the photoreceptor. The pressing unit may further cause the shutter unit to open and close the window. An operating unit is connected to the at least one pressing unit. The operating unit is movable between an operating position to generate a pressing force by the at least one pressing unit to press the developing unit to contact the photoreceptor and a standby position to release the pressing force.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading unit 110 allowing input of image data generated from a read document, a paper feed unit 140 containing recording paper, an image forming unit 120 forming an image on the recording paper based on the image data, and a touch-panel display 132 displaying a preview image representing a state of image formation. The touch-panel display displays a preview image in a designated orientation for a document of a prescribed size, and displays a preview image in accordance with size and orientation of recording paper fed from the paper feed unit, for a document not of the prescribed size. Thus, for documents of a prescribed size, preview images in a prescribed orientation can be displayed regardless of the direction of arrangement of the recording paper, and easier confirmation of expected finish of the formed image becomes possible.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a hardware processor that acquires results of reading of an image on a recording medium read by an image reader, determines quality of the image, and controls an ejector and sheet ejection into the ejector, the recording medium being ejected into the ejector, the ejector including a stacker, wherein the stacker includes an elevating tray on which ejected recording mediums are stacked, and has a mechanism that enables removal of a recording medium placed on the elevating tray while the elevating tray is descending, the elevating tray being capable of ascending and descending, and, when the stacker is set as an ejection destination at a time of reading of the image and ejecting the recording medium into the ejector, and the image is determined to be abnormal, the hardware processor determines a timing to cause the elevating tray of the set stacker to descend.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes: a function setup controller for setting up the image output conditions of output images; and a control-unit side controller having a function of displaying a function setup screen corresponding to the function setup controller, on a display panel. The function setup controller has an additional input mode having a function of reading documents a multiple number of times to form multiple sheaves of documents. The additional input mode includes: an individual setup function of setting up individual image output conditions for each sheaf of documents and an all-in setup function of setting up identical image output conditions for all sheaves of documents.

Abstract: In a case where a job associated with a user has not been successfully stored in a job processing apparatus, it is not possible to exclusively notify the user that the job has not been successfully stored. A control method in a job processing apparatus includes storing a job such that the job is associated with a user, storing, identification information for identifying the user associated with a job that has not been successfully stored, and notifying the user that the job has not been stored according to login to the job processing apparatus, by the user, in a case where identification information for identifying the user having logged in to the job processing apparatus has been stored.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a medium conveyance device that conveys a continuous medium; an image formation unit that forms a developer image on the medium to print on the medium; a used condition detector that detects a used condition of the image formation unit; and a controller that controls the medium controller, the image formation unit, and the used condition detector. When it is determined that the image formation unit comes to a time for replacement during a printing operation, the controller selects whether to continue the printing operation based on the detection by the used condition detector.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is operable in a first mode, in which a job can be processed at a first printing speed, and a second mode, in which the job can be processed at a second printing speed faster than the first printing speed. The apparatus includes at least one processor that executes instructions to receive a reservation of a period in which the image forming apparatus will operate in the second mode, and to control the image forming apparatus to operate in the second mode, rather than the first mode, in accordance with the reservation. Further, the at least one processor executes the instructions to set a function in which the image forming apparatus operates in the second mode to be one of disabled and enabled, and to enable the reservation to be received based on the set function being changed from disabled to enabled.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a fixing section, a detector, and a controller. A recording medium has a first surface and a second surface. A pair of marks is formed on the second surface with ink that becomes transparent at a specific temperature or higher. The controller calculates a distance between the marks based on a detection result of the detector after the fixing section has fixed toner to the first surface. The controller calculates a shrinkage of the recording medium based on the calculated distance. The image forming section forms an image on the second surface according to the shrinkage. The fixing section fixes the toner to the first surface at a first fixing temperature which is lower than the specific temperature. The fixing section fixes the toner to the second surface at a second fixing temperature which is higher than the specific temperature.

Abstract: A printing device tracks characteristics regarding duplex print jobs received and printed at the printing device. The print device adjusts the start time of a duplex print engine of the printing device following receipt of a new duplex print job at the printing device to print the new duplex print job, based on the tracked characteristics, to optimize a balance between print job performance and print engine wear.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a postprocessing device. The image forming apparatus includes a first communication unit, a paper feeder, and a first control unit. The postprocessing device includes a second communication unit, a postprocessing unit, and a second control unit. The second control unit obtains a first time to perform the postprocessing and a second time to transition to a performable state configured to perform the postprocessing. The first control unit obtains attribute information necessary for the second control unit to obtain the first time and the second time. When the second communication unit receives the attribute information, the second control unit transmits information indicating the first time and the second time. The first control unit controls the operation of the paper feeder based on the information indicating the first time and the second time received by the first communication unit.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a display unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a job. The storing unit stores attribute information about a sheet to be accommodated in a sheet holding unit. The determining unit determines whether attribute information about a sheet to be used in the job corresponds to attribute information about the sheet stored in the storing unit. The control unit controls the determining unit, wherein, after determination processing by the determining unit has been completed. the control unit controls the determining unit to further perform determination processing in response to a change of the attribute information about the sheet stored in the storing unit, or in response to a change of the attribute information about the sheet to be used in the job.

Abstract: In a case where conveyance abnormality of a sheet has occurred on a conveyance passage in course of execution of a print job which uses sheets included in a sheet set including a plurality of sheets with sequentiality stored in a first sheet feed tray and discharges a sheet having been subjected to image formation to a first discharge section of the plurality of discharge sections, conveyance of a causal sheet having caused the conveyance abnormality is stopped, and sheets having been being conveyed on the conveyance passage on an upstream side than the causal sheet are discharged to other discharge section other than the first discharge section. Thereafter, continuously, sheets located before a sheet to be fed first at a time of performing recovery printing after elimination of conveyance abnormality, are fed from the first sheet feed tray, and discharged the sheets to the other discharge section.

Abstract: An image forming system identifies a user's operation for changing a set value related to a processing of the image forming apparatus or the post-processing apparatus. When the set value is changed during a continuous output operation of the image forming system, the image forming system causes the image forming apparatus and the post-processing apparatus to continue the continuous output operation while reflecting the changed set value. The image forming system Detects a predetermined change related to the processing by referring back to a time when the user's operation is identified, and causes the image forming apparatus and the post-processing apparatus to re-output papers that have been output from a time when the predetermined change occurred to a time when the changed set value was reflected.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a break of copies exists based on a content of a data area in print data for reservation printing and an updating unit that, in a case where the determination unit determines that the break of copies exists, updates an attribute value in the print data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs printing based on a print job and determines whether printing for a first print job and a second print job having been received after the first print job can be made continuously based on a progress of printing for the first print job. In a case where it is determined that the printing for the first print job and the second print job can be made continuously, print media to be used for printing for the second print job is fed to a conveyance path before completing outputting printouts for the first print job.

Abstract: A flatbed printer assembly includes a controller for controlling the movements of a gantry, a carriage support and the print head while moving over a medium support table. The controller is configured to receive a print job including a cut path intended to circumvent a piece of the recording medium, a first image intended to be printed on a front side of the piece of the recording medium, a second image intended to be printed on a back side of the piece of the recording medium, wherein at least one of the first and second image is intended to be printed at least partially in a full bleed print mode. Shapes are selected for a first alignment mark for the first image and a second alignment mark for the second image. A first location is determined on the front side of the recording medium according to the selected shape of the first alignment mark. The first location crosses the cut path.

Abstract: A printing apparatus in which a controller controls an image forming unit. When a cover sheet is a first type of sheet, a normal image is formed on the cover sheet after forming the image on a body sheet and the cover sheet is conveyed to a saddle finisher without reversing the cover sheet. When the cover sheet has a higher transparency than the first type of sheet and is able to be reversed, a mirror image is formed on the cover sheet after forming the image on the body sheet. When the cover sheet is a third type of sheet having a higher transparency than the first type of sheet and is not able to be reversed by the reversing mechanism, a normal image is formed on the cover sheet after forming the image on the body sheet and the cover sheet on which the normal image has been formed is conveyed to the saddle finisher without reversing the cover sheet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes: a function setup controller for setting up the image output conditions of output images; and a control-unit side controller having a function of displaying a function setup screen corresponding to the function setup controller, on a display panel. The function setup controller has an additional input mode having a function of reading documents a multiple number of times to form multiple sheaves of documents. The additional input mode includes: an individual setup function of setting up individual image output conditions for each sheaf of documents and an all-in setup function of setting up identical image output conditions for all sheaves of documents.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor, a storage unit, a paper sheet feeder, an image forming unit, and a postprocessing unit. The postprocessing unit performs postprocessing on the recording sheet following image formation by the image forming unit. When a print/postprocessing job in which a plurality of copies is printed and postprocessing is performed on each copy is executed by the print-job execution unit, the postprocessing-position marking unit labels image data for at least the head page of the first copy with predetermined marks respectively in a position where postprocessing is to be performed and in a position where postprocessing is performable. The print-job execution unit, when executing the print/postprocessing job, performs control such that the first copy is printed without postprocessing, an image in which at least the head page has been labeled with the marks is printed, and the print/postprocessing job is temporarily halted.