Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212123 | Printer and output method employed in the printer - A printer which has a direct-printing function for reading and printing information stored in a storage device and which includes: an interface unit which receives the storage device, the storage device storing file information including content information for print or display and restrictive information for controlling output of the content information; a reading unit which reads the restrictive information from the storage device; a setting unit which sets indication information indicating the file information according to the content information and the restrictive information; and an indication outputting unit which outputs information based on the indication information set by the setting unit. | 09-04-2008 |
20080297848 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit which inputs a keyword; a preparation unit which prepares list data relating to a print file containing the keyword among a plurality of print files stored in a storage unit; and a printing unit that prints a list based on the list data. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301550 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE - An image-processing device includes a first memory, a determining unit, a creating unit, and an outputting unit. The first memory stores a first file and a second file. The first file includes first printing data and first additional information. The second file includes second printing data second additional information. The determining unit determines whether or not the first file is a distinguishable file. The distinguishable file is distinguishable from the second file based on the first additional information and the second additional information. The creating unit creates index data based on determination made by the determining unit. The index data includes first indicative data corresponding to the first file and second indicative data corresponding to the second file. The outputting unit outputs index image based on the index data. | 12-04-2008 |
20090027711 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a selection section which selects a print target to be printed; an input section which inputs a print job for printing the print target selected by the selection section; an instruction section which instructs to continue the print job; and a printing section which executes a trial printing of printing a part of the print job including a plurality of pages input by the input section as a trial page, and thereafter, restarting and finishing the print job in response to that the instruction section instructs to continue the print job. | 01-29-2009 |
20090244610 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS - An image output apparatus may be configured to create one piece of image data in a bit-mapped format from PDL data described by a page description language, and output a plurality of pieces of image data as one page of an output image. The image output apparatus may input data files. The data files may include at least two data files, one of which may be described by a first page description language and the other of which may be described by a second page description language. The image output apparatus may determine, for each of the data files, with respect to at least one page of PDL data included in the data file, a position in which one piece of image data corresponding to the PDL data is to be disposed within the output image. The image output apparatus may create, for each of the data files, with respect to at least one page of PDL data included in the data file, one piece of intermediate language data described by an intermediate language from the PDL data. The image output apparatus may create, for each piece of the intermediate language data, one piece of image data from the piece of intermediate language data, and write the one piece of image data in a position within a memory corresponding to the determined position with respect to the original PDL data of the one piece of image data. The image output apparatus may output the plurality of pieces of image data as one page of the output image in accordance with the stored contents of the memory. | 10-01-2009 |
20100079808 | Image-Forming Device Having Index Printing Function - An image-forming device includes: a converting unit; a creating unit; a storing unit; and a replacing unit. The converting unit performs a conversion process to convert a plurality of sets of print data, which are of differing formats from one another, into intermediate data of a common format, the converting unit converting each set of print data into a corresponding set of intermediate data. The creating unit creates page data from the intermediate data in parallel with the conversion process. The printing unit performs an index printing operation based on page data created by the creating unit. The storing unit stores at least one page data creatable range delimiter for the intermediate data by which the creating unit can create the page data from the intermediate data, the storing unit storing one page data creatable range delimiter after the converting unit converts at least a part of one set of print data of one format into a set of intermediate data, from which page data is creatable. The replacing unit is configured so as to be capable of performing a replacement process to replace at least the intermediate data positioned after the page data creatable range delimiter in the print data with substitute data when an error occurs in the print data during the conversion process. | 04-01-2010 |
20100251389 | LICENSE REGISTRATION DEVICE THAT REGISTERS LICENSE FOR USE OF PROGRAM ON DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A storage medium storing a set of program instructions that becomes executable on a data processing device if license information is input to the data processing device within a limiting period set for the license information. The license information is provided by a license registration device after registration of a license for use of the program instructions on the data processing device. The instructions includes storing time information in association with the license information, the time information indicating a cancelable time that arrives at or after an expiration time of the limiting period, accepting input of a disabling command, disabling use of the program instructions, and providing, if the cancelable time has arrived and if the disabling command has been accepted, license cancel information necessary for canceling the license. | 09-30-2010 |
20110032555 | PRINTER - A printer includes an input unit, a cell-size changing unit, a print data creating unit, and a printing unit. The input unit receives table data describing a table including a plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of cells has a size. The cell-size changing unit is configured to be capable of changing the size of a cell that is associated with a formula. The print data creating unit creates print data for printing a cell-size changed table that includes the size changed cell in a predetermined part of a recording sheet such that the formula fits entirely within the size changed cell, if the cell-size changing unit changes the size of the cell. The printing unit prints the cell-size changed table based on the print data in the predetermined part of the recording sheet. | 02-10-2011 |
20110060982 | PDL DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A PDL data processing device may obtain PDL data and create drawing data utilizing the PDL data. The PDL data may include resource part data, page part data, and deletion part data. In a case of N in 1 or 1 in N, the PDL data processing device may be configured to delete a first set of the resource part data indicated by a first set of data information included in a first set of the deletion part data including a first set of page information indicating a page number L+1, subsequent to a creation for a first set of the drawing data by utilizing a first set of the page part data being associated with a page number L, and prior to a creation for a second set of the drawing data by utilizing a second set of the page part data being associated with the page number L+1. | 03-10-2011 |
20110194156 | DATA PROCESSOR AND SCANNER DEVICE - A data processor includes an image acquiring unit, a reference file acquiring unit, and a file generating unit. The image acquiring unit is configured to acquire a plurality of sets of image data indicating a plurality of images. The reference file acquiring unit is configured to acquire a reference file including a reference object including first information indicating a layout of at least two images among the plurality of images. The file generating unit is configured to generate a file in which the plurality of images are laid out based on the first information. | 08-11-2011 |
20110310402 | File-Generating Device - In a file-generating device, the image acquiring unit is configured to acquire image data indicating an original image. The generating unit is configured to generate a document file having no data to specify a page, by using the image data. The printer data acquiring unit is configured to acquire a prescribed size of a sheet that is used by a target printer and a first margin corresponding to the prescribed size of the sheet. The target printer is to print the original image on a recording sheet based on the document file. The printable region determining unit is configured to determine a printable region within which the target printer is configured to print an image on the sheet, based on the prescribed size of the sheet and the first margin. The generating unit generates the document file such that the original image is positioned within the printable region. | 12-22-2011 |
20130335763 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device may execute a first type of transformation process for each of a plurality of partial target data sequentially, so as to try to generate each of a plurality of partial print data sequentially. The control device may send second partial target data to a server via a network, in a first case where the first type of transformation process for the second partial target data does not succeed after the first type of transformation process for first partial target data succeeded and first partial print data was generated. The control device may receive first transformed data from the server via the network in the first case. The control device may supply second partial print data obtained by using the first transformed data to a print execution unit in the first case. | 12-19-2013 |