An ordering system includes a recording apparatus, which records an image by use of recording materials contained in cartridges, and a server system, which is capable of communicating with the recording apparatus, wherein the recording apparatus sends status information, which includes values of remaining amounts of the recording materials of the cartridges mounted on the recording apparatus, and wherein the server system is equipped with a receiving unit configured to receive the status information, and an ordering unit configured to provide an instruction for ordering a replacement of a cartridge for which a replacement has not been ordered yet from among the cartridges mounted on the recording apparatus in a case where the status information indicates that there is a cartridge whose value of the remaining amount of the recording material is less than a predetermined threshold value and a replacement thereof has not been ordered yet.

A user's time and effort in making settings about information transmission from devices is reduced. An information processing method includes receiving information from a device, transmitting the received information to an information terminal of a user, detecting an attendance state of the user, and determining whether to issue a notification of the information based on the detected attendance state of the user.

An example image forming apparatus includes a mainbody, a toner refilling portion, and a controller. On the mainbody, a development cartridge is mounted. The toner refilling portion is connected to the development cartridge and a toner refill cartridge inserted through a communicating portion of the main body and thus receives, from the toner refill cartridge, authentication information obtained from the toner refill cartridge, thereby adjusting a toner inflow from the toner refill cartridge to the development cartridge. A controller determines whether to allow a toner refill using the toner refill cartridge based on the authentication information obtained from the toner refill cartridge and authentication information obtained from the image forming apparatus and controls the toner refilling portion according to a determination result.

A sheet management system includes an image forming apparatus and first and second information processing apparatuses to communicate with the image forming apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes a first LAN interface connected to the image forming apparatus, a second LAN interface connected to a network, and a first display to display information. To display a screen for performing sheet management on the first display, the first information processing apparatus obtains device information of the image forming apparatus based on information on an apparatus connected via the first LAN interface. The second information processing apparatus includes a third. LAN interface connected to the network and a second display to display information. To display a screen for performing sheet management on the second display, the second information processing apparatus obtains device information of the image forming apparatus via the third LAN interface using address information entered by a user.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to, if it is determined that a connecting process of connecting a continuous sheet and another continuous sheet to each other is to be executed when a trailing end of the continuous sheet transported by a printing unit is detected, prohibit the continuous sheet from being transported in response to a user's operation at a time when the trailing end of the continuous sheet is detected.

A host device has a hardware-based remote control mode and a softwarebased remote control mode. The availability of each of the hardware- and software-based remote control modes is monitored. Client device remote control of the host device is selectively switched between the hardware- and softwarebased remote control modes, based on the monitored availability of each remote control mode.

An image forming apparatus includes a heating member energization control circuit that estimates a temperature of a fixing rotating body, based on a temperature detection result of the fixing rotating body, which is heated by a heating member and heats a toner image formed on a medium to fix the toner image on the medium, by a temperature sensor, a power supply voltage of a power supply source, and an energization pulse for controlling energization to the heating member, and outputs an energization pulse for controlling power to be supplied to the heating member, based on the estimated temperature and the temperature detection result. The apparatus further includes a controller that acquires a power supply voltage detection result by a communication interface via a network, from another apparatus which holds a power supply voltage detection result by an image forming apparatus with a power supply voltage detection function, provided with a power supply voltage detection circuit that detects a power supply voltage value of a same power supply source as the power supply source, and inputs the acquired power supply voltage detection result to the heating member energization control circuit, as a power supply voltage value of the power supply source.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming portion; a first metal side plate and a second metal side plate; an antenna; and a housing on which a discharging port is disposed, wherein the housing includes a top cover that is disposed at a position vertically higher than the first metal side plate, wherein in a region on a downstream side with respect to the antenna in a discharging direction where a recording material is discharged from the discharging port, an upper end of the first metal side plate is located at a position vertically lower than the antenna, and a resin support portion connected to the first metal side plate is disposed in the region such that the resin support portion supports the top cover, wherein the antenna and the resin support portion are disposed along the upper end of the first metal side plate.

An image forming apparatus, including: an image former that forms an image on continuous form paper; and a hardware processor that calculates a paper cost for a print job of the continuous form paper, on the basis of a distance of the continuous form paper conveyed from a start to an end of the print job.

There is provided a printing apparatus including: an installing part in which a consumable item to be used in printing is to be installed; a printer configured to print an image on a printing medium by using the consumable item installed in the installing part; and a controller. The printing apparatus is configured to operate in a contract mode based on content of a contract regarding the consumable item to be used in the printing. The controller is configured to execute a profit returning process of performing profit return according to the content of the contract in a case that the consumable item installed in the installing part has a type corresponding to a non-contract mode not based on the content of the contract and that the printing apparatus is operated in the contract mode.