Abstract: A method for an information processing apparatus capable of executing an application that runs on an operating system includes determining whether data is writable by the application into a folder associated with the application, instructing the operating system to display a screen for permitting the application to write the data into the folder in a case where it is determined that the data is not writable into the folder associated with the application, the screen being a screen using Storage Access Framework (SAF), and writing the data into the folder, wherein, at a time of the writing, the data is written into the folder into which the application is permitted to write the data by an operation accepted on the screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, and a controller configured to, when the image forming apparatus is remotely connected with an information processing device via the communication interface, transmit, to the information processing device, screen data for causing the information processing device to display a screen corresponding to a display screen being displayed on the display, when receiving remote access from the information processing device, perform display processing for the display screen in accordance with the remote access, and when the remote access is received while a particular screen is being displayed as the display screen on the display, impose a display restriction on the display screen.

Abstract: An interrogation device and/or system includes a body and an antenna, the body has an aperture or elongated receiver with an opening and an internal perimeter or inner wall sized and/or shaped to receive a portion of a container therein, either with or without a cap of the container. The container may, for example, be used to store biological specimens a cryogenic temperatures. One or more alignment features of the body align wireless transponders (e.g., RFID transponders) of tagged specimen containers and/or carriers with the antenna to enhance interrogation. Alignment may be along a longitudinal or Z-axis, and/or alignment in an XY plane, perpendicular to the Z-axis. Shielding may reduce or even eliminate cross-talk with neighboring wireless tagged specimen containers and/or carriers.

Abstract: To make it possible for a user to easily grasp, at the time of selection of a measuring device and a chart, which are necessary for color verification of a printer, whether or not it is possible to use them. Based on a chart configuration information indicating the configuration of a chart on which a color patch is arranged and specification information indicating specifications of a measuring device that is used for colorimetry of the color patch, determination processing to check whether it is possible to perform colorimetry is performed. Then, results of the determination processing are output to be presented to a user.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system for peer-to-peer grouping of production prints. The industrial printing system performs production printing with a plurality of servers that perform distributed processing of jobs. Each of the plurality of print servers includes a condition setting unit, a condition sharing unit, a job acquiring unit, and a job processing unit. The condition setting unit sets a grouping condition for grouping the jobs. The condition sharing unit shares the grouping condition set by the condition setting unit with other print server. The job acquiring unit acquires a plurality of jobs that meets the grouping condition from the other print server. The job processing unit groups and processes the plurality of jobs acquired by the job acquiring unit.

Abstract: A printer includes: a print head configured to perform printing; and a controller configured to control the print head, wherein the controller executes: code acquisition process of acquiring code information obtained from an identification code, specifying process of specifying, based on the code information, first print data and second print data different from the first print data, and printing process of printing a first label based on the first print data specified in the specifying process and printing a second label based on the second print data specified in the specifying process by controlling the print head.

Abstract: An order may be received for an apparatus such as a power converter or other power device, where the apparatus may be housed in a packing box. A configuration device may be programmed with information responsive to details of the order and an ID associated with the apparatus. A label or other identifying object may be created or configured (e.g., printed) and attached to the apparatus or may otherwise accompany the apparatus prior to dispatch of the packing box. The label may provide details of operating parameters of the apparatus responsive to the details of the order. Upon receipt and unpacking of the packing box, the configuration device may be connected to the apparatus, thereby to causing the apparatus to become configured.

Abstract: When a second storage device having a storage capacity larger than a storage capacity of a first storage device is usable, a storage unit stores a received print job in the second storage device. When the second storage device having a storage capacity larger than a storage capacity of the first storage device is usable, a setting unit is able to set a second storage period longer than a first storage period as a storage period for the print job stored in the second storage device.

Abstract: A printer that prints each printing medium having an RFID, the printer including: a radio wave strength acquisition unit that acquires radio wave strength from the RFID; and a determine unit that determines whether the RFID is normal or not on the basis of a radio wave strength obtained by the radio wave strength acquisition unit and a threshold.

Abstract: A set of computer-readable instructions, when executed by a computer in an information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform: a capability responding process; and in response to receiving a print instruction in which a special size is selected through an application program: a generation process; and a transmission process. The capability responding process transfers capability information of a printer to the application program. The capability information includes sheet size information indicating at least one sheet size available in the printer. The at least one sheet size includes a special size with which a cut print setting is associated. The generation process acquires target image data according to the print instruction to generate cut print image data based on the target image data and the cut print setting. The transmission process transmits print data based on the cut print image data and a cut command to the printer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, and a controller configured to, when the image forming apparatus is remotely connected with an information processing device via the communication interface, transmit, to the information processing device, screen data for causing the information processing device to display a same screen as a display screen being displayed on the display, when receiving remote access from the information processing device, perform display processing for the display screen in accordance with the remote access, and when the remote access is received while a particular screen is being displayed as the display screen on the display, impose a display restriction on the display screen.

Abstract: A method of converting a CMYK Standard Color Printer to print with a white toner such that a CMYW Converted White Printer is created. The CMYK Standard Color Printer may be an Oki® printer, such as C821dn, C822n, C823dn, C830n, C830dn, C831DM, C831n, C831dn, C833dn, C841dn, C843dn, or C844dnw.

Abstract: A data writing device includes a roller configured to convey a label including a radio tag along a predetermined path, a reader/writer configured to wirelessly communicate with the radio tag, and a controller configured to control the roller to convey the label and control the reader/writer to acquire a plurality of radio wave intensities from the radio tag at different positions along the predetermined path as the label is conveyed, and determine one of the different positions along the predetermined path at which the radio wave intensities are equal to or greater than a threshold value as a writing position for the radio tag.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyance roller, a liquid discharge head, and a control device. The control device controls the head to discharge liquid onto a medium X times in the main scanning direction and Y times in the sub-scanning direction and controls the roller such that a position of a droplet on the medium discharged by an m-th discharge and a position of another droplet on the medium discharged by an (m+Y)-th discharge are same in the sub-scanning direction, where m is an integer not smaller than one and not greater than ((X?1)×Y). Where P is a circumferential length of the roller and L is a difference in a conveyance distance in the sub-scanning direction when the m-th discharge is compared with the (m+Y)-th discharge, the following relation is satisfied: L=(n+(??/2?))×P, where |????|<60° and n is an integer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, and a controller configured to, when the image forming apparatus is remotely connected with an information processing device via the communication interface, transmit, to the information processing device, screen data for causing the information processing device to display a same screen as a display screen being displayed on the display, when receiving remote access from the information processing device, perform display processing for the display screen in accordance with the remote access, and when the remote access is received while a particular screen is being displayed as the display screen on the display, impose a display restriction on the display screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an engine to form an image on an image forming medium, a paper transfer device to pick up a printing paper and transfer the paper to a transfer path, a sensor to sense a printing paper at a predetermined position on the transfer path, and a processor to determine whether a transfer delay occurs, when the printing paper is sensed, and adjust a pickup timing to advance a pickup of a printing paper of a next page.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to stop a print job under execution in response to an occurrence of an abnormality preventing the print job from continuing, set the stopped print job to a skip state, and restart the print job set to the skip state in response to a restart instruction by a user associated with the print job and not by a second user different from the user associated with the print job.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a memory storing instructions; and a processor which is capable of executing the instructions causing the printing apparatus to: receive print data; save the received print data; authenticate a user; hold a setting of valid or invalid of an automatic printing function to perform printing processing of print data associated with the user without instructions from the user in response to authentication of the user; and control for making invalid the setting of the automatic printing function is performed, in a case where a setting of a predetermined function that needs to limit the use of the automatic printing function is performed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless tag communication device includes a controller configured to acquire, from a wireless tag on a sheet, position information indicating a position of the wireless tag on the sheet, identify the position of the wireless tag on the sheet from the acquired position information, and write information to the wireless tag according to the identified position of the wireless tag on the sheet.

Abstract: A control method executed in an image processing apparatus includes generating image data for outputting a printed material which is to be pasted onto a frame, selecting an image, arranging the selected image on at least a front surface area of the image data, specifying image processing to be executed in relation to a side surface area of the image data, and executing specific analysis processing on an area of a range in accordance with the specified image processing. A plurality of image processes includes image arrangement processing for arranging at least a portion of the selected image on the side surface area by enlarging the selected image, and in a case where the specified image processing is the image arrangement processing, the specific analysis processing is executed on the front surface area and the side surface area.

Abstract: A radio-frequency identification (RFID) printer-encoder is provided. The RFID printer-encoder includes a feed path configured to accommodate a plurality of RFID tags. The RFID printer-encoder further includes a print head positioned along the feed path. Furthermore, the RFID printer-encoder includes a multi-mode active antenna configurable in a plurality of antenna modes. Each of the plurality of antenna modes has a distinct radiation pattern.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a control device for an image forming apparatus includes a controller that acquires reference information corresponding to expected signal strength values from a wireless tag on a sheet moving along a conveyance path and also acquires measured signal strength values for a first wireless tag on a sheet from a wireless tag communication device. The controller calculates a similarity value from the measured signal strength values and the expected signal strength values to determine whether the first wireless tag is on a sheet moving along the conveyance path. The controller controls the wireless tag communication device to write information to the first wireless tag when the calculated similarity value is above a threshold similarity value.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device includes a first roller from which a film member is unwound, a second roller around which the film member is wound, a flatness maintainer that is arranged between the first roller and the second roller and keeps at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the film member, flat, and a sensing unit arranged on at least one of the upper surface of the film member and the lower surface of the film member and detecting droplets dropped from a head unit onto the film member.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the information processing device to acquire identification information for identifying an OS of the information processing device, using the acquired identification information, determine whether the OS is capable of accepting a driver program for controlling a device, when determining that the OS is capable of accepting the driver program, install the driver program into the OS, and when determining that the OS is incapable of accepting the driver program, download into the information processing device a driverless installer for achieving driverless control of the device without using the driver program.

Abstract: In an example print system including a mask engine and print engine, the mask engine is able to cause generation of print masks with disabled sections that are non-overlapping. In an example method of printing, a number of passes over a zone of media is identified, a plurality of print masks corresponding to the zone are generated with a disabled section of pixels that are non-overlapping, and the number of passes are printed based on the plurality of masks such that the disable pixels in each print mask are in a different relative position with respect to a location of the media.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including: a memory storing instructions; and a processor which is capable of executing the instructions causing the printing apparatus to: receive print data; save the received print data; authenticate a user; hold a setting of valid or invalid of an automatic printing function to perform printing processing of print data associated with the user without instructions from the user in response to authentication of the user; and control for making invalid the setting of the automatic printing function is performed, in a case where a setting of a predetermined function that needs to limit the use of the automatic printing function is performed.

Abstract: This invention relates to a print bar structure, a printing apparatus and a method for printing on an outer surface of an object comprising at least one cylindrical portion, particularly a cylindrical and/or conical container. The invention also relates to a manufacturing facility and method for manufacturing containers. The printing apparatus typically comprises a print bar structure, a plurality of print heads attachable to the print bar structure, a curing device, and a displacement assembly operatively attachable to the container. The print bar structure at least partly defines a print zone, wherein the print heads and the curing device is operatively disposed in the print zone. The displacement assembly is operable to rotate object about an axis substantially aligned with the central axis relative to the plurality of print heads in the print zone such that fluid is deposited onto the object during rotation of the object.

Abstract: One of a plurality of setting screens corresponding to a plurality of printers may be generated based on original data stored in a server. Each of the plurality of setting screens may be for permitting designation of a content of each setting item matching a print condition that a corresponding printer is capable of performing. The server may acquire specific printer identification information for identifying a specific printer from a terminal device, store target data of a print target and supply specific data, which is for representing a specific setting screen corresponding to the specific printer, to the terminal device. The server may acquire setting information indicating a designated content of each setting item designated via the specific setting screen and supply to the specific printer print data according to the target data and the designated content of each setting item indicated by the setting information.

Abstract: A print processor is provided and executes layout processing excluding reduction processing in accordance with at least a determination that a print setting causing the reduction processing is made as a print setting, and notifies a printer driver of information about the layout processing excluding the reduction processing. The printer driver scales, upon reception of the information about the layout processing excluding the reduction processing from the print processor, rendering data subjected to the layout processing excluding the reduction processing by the print processor based on a parameter included in the notified information, and generates print data to be transmitted to a printing apparatus, based on the scaled rendering data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one device, and circuitry to perform at least one process using the at least one device, which controls access to each device from each process based on access restriction information for setting an access restriction to each device from each process, acquires diagnostic information from each device, detects an abnormal access to a particular device from a particular process based on the diagnostic information, and modifies the access restriction information to prohibit access to the particular device from the particular process when the abnormal access is detected.

Abstract: A thermal connector comprising an electrically insulating beam having a first end face at a first end and a second end face at a second end is provided. The second end face may be opposite the first end face in an X direction. The beam may have a width in a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction. The beam may also have a top face and a bottom face offset from the top face in a Z direction. The thermal connector may include a first terminal attached to the bottom face and adjacent the first end and a second terminal attached to the top face and adjacent the first end. The connector may have an overall thickness in the Z direction, which includes the first and second terminals and is greater than 1.27 mm and less than 3.81 mm.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus of a data migration source (first apparatus), a second information processing apparatus of a data migration destination (second apparatus), a server communicable with the first and second apparatuses via a network and a user terminal communicable with the first and second apparatuses by short range wireless communication and communicable with the server via the network. The first apparatus starts export of migrating data by communication with the user terminal and transmits the migrating data having data identification information to the server. The server stores the received migrating data. The second apparatus starts import of the migrating data by communication with the user terminal. The server reads out the migrating data on the basis of the data identification information and transmits the migrating data to the second apparatus. The second apparatus stores the received migrating data.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a controller. The controller performs a width acquisition process, a width determination process, a first printing determination process, and a first print formation process. In the width acquisition process, a first width direction dimension of the print-receiving tape is acquired. In the width determination process, a magnitude relation between the first width direction dimension and a second width direction dimension correlated with a template. In the first printing determination process, it is determined whether or not printing using N or less of the extraction print zones is performable, in the case that the first width direction dimension is smaller than the second width direction dimension. In the first print formation process, the printing head and the feeder form a print using a print object arranged in the extraction print zone in the case that the printing using the extraction print zones is performable.

Abstract: Systems and methods which obtain template images corresponding to pattern units of tessellated images using a template unit boundary identification technique are described. Template unit boundary identification techniques of embodiments operate to analyze a sample of a tessellated image to determine a template unit size for the template image, use the determined template unit size to define pixel analysis line segments for identifying template unit boundaries in the tessellated image, and select a template image based on the template unit boundaries identified using the pixel analysis line segments. One or more sample area images may be selected for use in determining a template unit size. Pixel analysis line segments, configured based upon a determined template unit size, may be used for identifying boundaries of a template unit. Moreover, dynamic template image updating may be provided.

Abstract: A print apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a first direction. The print apparatus also includes a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the first direction. The print apparatus further includes a print controller configured to control the print head that in a first print mode prints images on the sheet using a first print reference position on a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and a first image direction parallel to the first direction, and in a second print mode prints images on the sheet using a second print reference position on a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and a second image direction parallel and opposite to the first image direction.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a print engine, a communication interface, a memory, and a controller configured to receive a print job via the communication interface, acquire authentication information associated with the print job, perform authentication based on the acquired authentication information, and determine whether the authentication is successful, when determining that the authentication is successful, cause the print engine to print, on a sheet, an image based on the print job, and regardless of whether the authentication is successful, transmit predetermined image data based on the print job via the communication interface.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided to prevent mismatches in processing and settings related to print media. A print manager device includes a media print information storage storing media print information, which is information relating image processing information used to generate print data for a specific print medium with print settings information used to print on the print medium. The image processing information and the print settings information are relationally stored to each printer configured to print based on the print data according to the print settings information. A processor that controls communication. The processor can send the image processing information stored in the media print information storage relationally to a print medium specified by media selection information to an image processing device that generates print data and can send the print settings information stored in the media print information storage to the printer.

Abstract: A printing apparatus accepts an input related to a secure print job, controls a size of a spool area in a predetermined memory for secure print jobs in response to an input related to the accepted secure print job, and executes secure printing based on the secure print job in response to a user operation. Non-secure printing is executed based on a non-secure print job without a user operation being performed, acceptance of the input related to the secure print job is acceptance of an input indicating that an environment of the printing apparatus is an environment in which secure printing is executed more than non-secure printing, and in response to the accepted input, the size of the spool area for secure print jobs in the predetermined memory becomes larger than a size of a spool area for non-secure print jobs in the predetermined memory.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for printing a Quality Assurance print chart, QA chart, comprising the steps of: determining the maximum print width for at least one media sheet to be printed subsequently to the printing of the QA chart, selecting from a plurality of media types designated as being suitable for QA charts, a media type that has substantially the same or a greater media width as the determined print width for the at least one media sheet to be printed subsequently, setting a print width for the QA chart substantially to the determined print width, and printing the QA chart with the set print width on the selected media type.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller circuit configured to execute an information processing program to operate as a rendering module, the rendering module being configured to determine whether or not a specified font is included in the list, the specified font being a font specified by the font specifying information, if determining that the specified font is not included in the list, select an alternative font from the list, the alternative font being one of the one or more fonts, render a character specified by the character code included in the printable data by using alternative font data, the alternative font data being font data of the alternative font, and render alternative font rendering information, the alternative font rendering information being information indicating that rendering is executed by using the alternative font data.

Abstract: A communication terminal communicates with an image forming apparatus to be moved on a medium to perform image formation. The communication terminal includes a display and circuitry configured to receive a notification from the image forming apparatus and to display a preview of an image to be formed by the image forming apparatus. The circuitry is further configured to distinguish, on the preview, one of a plurality of lines included in the image to be formed from a rest of the plurality of lines in accordance with a content of the notification and display operation aiding information for aiding an operation of the image forming apparatus in accordance with the content of the notification.

Abstract: A technique includes receiving a plurality of speed control requests from a plurality of components of a processing pipeline for a printing press system. The technique includes controlling the speed of the printing press system based on the plurality of speed control requests.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller and a reservation job managing unit. The controller is configured to perform a print job or a transmission job using a printing device or a communication device. The reservation job managing unit is configured to (a) register schedule data and job data of a reservation job that is a print job or a transmission job in a predetermined storage device, (b) determine whether the job data is stored in the storage device or not when a reservation time has come on the basis of the schedule data, and (c) notify a user of that the job data is not stored in the storage device if the job data is not stored in the storage device, and afterward cause the controller to perform the reservation job if the job data is restored in the storage device.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes data for printing an image by relatively moving a printing unit and a printing medium. The printing unit includes a plurality of printing elements arranged in a first direction, and the relative movement is in a second direction that intersects with the first. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire image data corresponding to an image of one page, a first processing unit to process first image data corresponding to a first processing area of the image by using a common parameter for each pixel arranged in the second direction, for generating first print data that is used for the printing unit, a second processing unit to process second image data corresponding to a second processing area of the image by using a common parameter for each pixel arranged in the second direction, for generating second print data used for the printing unit.

Abstract: Methods of managing a fleet of devices are provided, as are methods for configuring a standby device for a job in a workflow environment, and methods for performing a job in a workflow environment. Device information is analyzed, such as information pertaining to verification systems. Device instructions are sent to various locations on a device network in response to a deviation from a parameter value having been detected. The deviation from the parameter value may correspond to printed media and/or indicia produced by one or more devices. A workflow device and a standby device are provided, and the workflow device sends configuration data to the standby device. The standby device installs configuration data and is introduced into the workflow environment.

Abstract: A device communication portion 35a transmits a print job to an image forming apparatus 20 and obtains information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20. A server communication portion 35b transmits the information having been obtained from the image forming apparatus 20 to a server 40 which manages the information of the image forming apparatus 20. The device communication portion 35a obtains specific information of the image forming apparatus 20 from the image forming apparatus 20 with timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An object is to improve image quality in panoramic printing using a thermal printer. The thermal printer includes a seam shape calculator and a controller. The seam shape calculator determines the position and shape of a seam between images on the basis of an index of inconspicuousness to human eyes, in panorama printing where a panoramic image longer than a specified printing size is divided into the images as small as or smaller than the printing size, and is printed multiple times so that the images are joined to each other. The controller controls a printing medium, an ink ribbon, and a thermal head so that the images divided based on the position and shape of the seam are thermally transferred onto respective continuous regions of the printing medium using unit printing regions of the ink ribbon, so as to be joined to each other.

Abstract: One of a plurality of setting screens corresponding to a plurality of printers may be generated based on original data stored in a server. Each of the plurality of setting screens may be for permitting designation of a content of each setting item matching a print condition that a corresponding printer is capable of performing. The server may acquire specific printer identification information for identifying a specific printer from a terminal device, store target data of a print target and supply specific data, which is for representing a specific setting screen corresponding to the specific printer, to the terminal device. The server may acquire setting information indicating a designated content of each setting item designated via the specific setting screen and supply to the specific printer print data according to the target data and the designated content of each setting item indicated by the setting information.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes data for printing an image by relatively moving a printing unit and a printing medium. The printing unit includes a plurality of printing elements arranged in a first direction, and the relative movement is in a second direction that intersects with the first. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire image data corresponding to an image of one page, a first processing unit to process first image data corresponding to a first processing area of the image by using a common parameter for each pixel arranged in the second direction, for generating first print data that is used for the printing unit, a second processing unit to process second image data corresponding to a second processing area of the image by using a common parameter for each pixel arranged in the second direction, for generating second print data used for the printing unit.

Abstract: On a sheet of paper on which an image has already been formed, a first registration mark pair and a second registration mark pair are printed. The first registration mark pair and second registration mark pair each consist of a pair of registration marks that are arranged to be spaced apart in a paper-width direction, the second registration mark pair located posterior to the first registration mark pair in the paper-conveying direction. Based on the actual positional relationship between the first registration mark pair and the second registration mark pair that are read by a reading unit, a correction unit corrects discharge data that corresponds to an image formation area located between the first registration mark pair and the second registration mark pair.