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20090189330 | Medium Feed Control in an Image Forming Apparatus - A method of controlling medium feeding in an image forming apparatus includes an image forming step of forming an image on a medium in response to an image forming request, and a feed control step of selecting one of a plurality of first medium feed units that feeds a medium corresponding to attribute information that matches medium attribute information included in the image forming request, and of selecting a second medium feed unit upon finding matching between attribute information indicative of a medium fed by the second medium feed unit and the medium attribute information included in the image forming request if none of the first medium feed units feeds a medium corresponding to the attribute information that matches the medium attribute information included in the image forming request. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190936 | Image Forming Device, Printing Medium Supplying Method, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium - In an image forming device including a control unit to control the image forming device to perform a job of image formation, the control unit is arranged so that, when a size of a printing medium detected by a detection unit is not in agreement with a printing medium size indicated by information contained in a printing request, the control unit causes the printing medium to be ejected from the image forming device without causing an image formation unit to form an image on the printing medium, and causes an image holding unit to hold data of the image. | 07-30-2009 |
20090230607 | Image forming apparatus and computer program product - An image forming apparatus selects a printing sheet of a size according to a printing condition when printing an image. The image forming apparatus includes a setting unit that sets a target printing sheet on a feed source that can feed recording sheets of a plurality of sizes. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232520 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes image forming means receiving at least MICR print data and forming an image of the data to be printed, determination means determining whether received data are authentication-requiring MICR print data that require performing a password authentication process or normal MICR print data that do not require performing the password authentication process, accumulation means accumulating the data to be printed, and control means reading the authentication-requiring MICR print data from the accumulation means at a predetermined timing and causing the image forming means to form an image of the authentication-requiring MICR print data. | 09-17-2009 |
20120069356 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program product - An image forming apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores print data and transformation data transformed into a printable format by reflecting a print condition on the print data; a detection unit that detects an error when the transformation data stored in the storage unit is printed; a decision unit that decides a resolution print condition which is a print condition for resolving an error based on a content of the error and a device state when the error is detected; a transformation unit that acquires the print data from the storage unit and transforms the acquired print data into transformation data on which the decided resolution print condition is reflected; and a print control unit that prints the transformation data transformed by the transformation unit. | 03-22-2012 |
20120188601 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus stores billing information depending on a formation and output of an image. The apparatus includes a page information acquiring unit that acquires page information written in PDL, a page information analysis unit that analyzes the page information and outputs a drawing command for performing the formation and output of the image for each of a plurality of regions divided from a unit page, a drawing information generating unit that generates drawing information for performing the formation and output of the image on the basis of the drawing command, a billing amount determining unit that judges whether an image to be drawn is contained in each of the divided regions and determines a billing amount for each divided region on the basis of the judgment result, and a billing information storage unit that stores information of the determined billing amount. | 07-26-2012 |
20120229852 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a data interpreting unit configured to interpret a printing condition of an entirety of a printing job when starting the printing job, and a job control unit configured to determine whether an occurrence of an error for the print job is predicted based on the interpretation of the printing condition of the entirety of the printing job by the data interpreting unit, and terminate the printing job when the occurrence of an error is predicted based on the interpretation of the printing condition of the entirety of the printing job by the data interpreting unit and store data of the printing job in an memory area. | 09-13-2012 |
20130278966 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND JOB MANAGEMENT METHOD - A novel image forming apparatus that categorizes print job information for each newly added application and presents the print job information without categorizing data incorrectly and mixing in impersonation data. All of the applications that installed additionally extract jobs that went through itself only from trace information on jobs notified by the default functions and display it in a user interface. The trace information on jobs is a job ID association list that associates a job ID numbered by the default functions with a job ID of a job issued by the additional application. | 10-24-2013 |
20130321849 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PRINT SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed. | 12-05-2013 |
20150073935 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONSUMABLES ORDERING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus includes: a storage control unit that stores, in a storage medium, device number information for identifying the information processing apparatus and a consumables list of consumables available in the information processing apparatus identified by the device number information; and a processing unit that acquires the consumables list from an order receiving server via a network, causes the consumables list to be displayed, and send order information received from the user to the order receiving server when being connected to the network, causes the consumables list to be displayed and causes the storage control unit to store order information received from the user when being not connected to the network, and sends the order information stored to the order receiving server when the information processing apparatus is recovered from a state of being not connected to the network to a state of being connected to the network. | 03-12-2015 |
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20110164273 | PIXEL CLOCK GENERATOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A pixel clock generator includes a frequency divider | 07-07-2011 |
20110221739 | PIXEL CLOCK GENERATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A pixel clock generating device includes a time interval detection unit detecting a time interval between a first signal and a second signal in each of cyclically repeating N (≧2) time periods; a comparing unit cyclically selecting a target value from N target values corresponding to the N time periods and outputting an error indicating a difference between the detected time interval and the selected target value for each of the N time periods; a frequency calculation unit correcting a frequency of the pixel clock signal based on the error and cyclically generating a frequency specification signal indicating the corrected frequency for each of the N time periods; a high-frequency clock generating unit generating a high-frequency clock signal; and a pixel clock generating unit generating a pixel clock signal based on the frequency specification signal and the high-frequency clock signal. | 09-15-2011 |
20130064580 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus reduces superimposing misalignment due to skew difference and registration difference and superimposing misalignment of visible image due to periodic position error generated on a plurality of latent image carriers respectively by correcting image information. A controller of the image forming apparatus has a deviation amount storing unit store data of magnification error in the sub-scanning direction e, executes rotation posture determining process that sets writing rotation posture as rotation angle posture at the time of starting writing latent image on photoconductors for Y, M, C, and K respectively, and has an image data correcting unit correct the image information based on the determined writing rotation posture and various error data (including magnification error in the sub-scanning direction e). | 03-14-2013 |
20130148996 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer body; a generating unit generating test pattern data; a storage unit storing a color displacement amount; a correcting unit correcting the test pattern data and image data based on the color displacement amount currently stored in the storage unit; a forming unit forming a test pattern based on the test pattern data corrected by the correcting unit on the intermediate transfer body at predetermined intervals, and forming an image based on the image data corrected by the correcting unit on the intermediate transfer body; a detecting unit detecting the test pattern formed on the intermediate transfer body; an updating unit determining an amount of change of the color displacement amount from a result of detection by the detecting unit, and updating the color displacement amount stored in the storage unit by using the amount of change of the color displacement amount. | 06-13-2013 |
20140169843 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CORRECTING COLOR REGISTRATION ERROR - An image forming apparatus includes a color registration error amount calculation unit that calculates a color registration error amount from a first test pattern; a correction information obtaining unit that obtains a correction information for correcting an image on a back surface based on previously obtained contraction information of a printing paper after printing an image on a front surface when printing on both surfaces; and an image data correction unit that corrects the image on the back surface based on the color registration error amount calculated by the color registration error amount and the correction information obtained by the correction information obtaining unit. | 06-19-2014 |
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20080256626 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a user authentication unit that authenticates a user in a condition where an authentication medium used for authenticating the user is inserted, the authentication medium storing personal identification information of the user, a private key, and a software program for using the private key and including a processor for running the software program, to thereby establish a verified state in which the user is allowed to use the apparatus, a data processor that performs data processing including private key processing, a processing completion detector that detects completion of the private key processing performed by the data processor, and a verification state changing unit that changes, the verified state of the user having been established as a result of authenticating the user to a user unverified state based on detection of the completion of the private key processing in the processing completion detector. | 10-16-2008 |
20080289051 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: an authenticating unit that authenticate a user; a registering unit that reads operation setting information registered by a user who is not the authenticated user, and registers the operation setting information as the operation setting information of the authenticated user; and a controller that performs a control operation to prohibit a disclosure or registration of the operation setting information, when the operation setting information registered by the user who is not the authenticated user includes operation setting information that is prohibited from being used by the authenticated user or being disclosed to the authenticated user. | 11-20-2008 |
20090100515 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A receiving unit receives information selected by a user on an operating screen. A detecting unit detects a function executing part corresponding to the information received by the receiving unit. A determining unit determines that the user authentication is required when a function is to be executed, when “the user authentication is required” is set for at least any one of a function allocated to a function executing part that is detected by the detecting unit, the function allocated to another function executing part, and the operating screen that includes the function executing part to which the function is allocated. A function executing unit executes a function allocated to the function executing part selected by the user, wherein the user is authorized to execute the function. | 04-16-2009 |
20100095126 | Scanned Image Disclosure Apparatus, Method and Storage Medium; Electronic Mail Transmission Apparatus, Method and Storage Medium; and Internet Facsimile Transmission Apparatus - A scanned image disclosure apparatus has a disclosure unit that encrypts and discloses to a disclosure destination a scanned image by using a public key or a private key relating to a public key certificate that has been verified to be valid, a re-verification unit that judges whether or not re-verification of the validity of the public key certificate is necessary during execution for the disclosure unit and performs re-verification if it is judged to be necessary, a termination unit that terminates the execution for the disclosure unit if the public key certificate was judged to be invalid by the re-verification unit. | 04-15-2010 |