An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver to receive from a terminal device, for each page of an image to be printed with an image processing device, one-page data included in electronic data of the image to be printed; and circuitry to: determine whether an output destination device to which a print medium having the printed image is output has been changed and whether a medium size of the print medium has been changed to generate a first determination result; request the image processing device to determine whether the output destination device permits mixture of different medium sizes to obtain a second determination result when the first determination result indicates that at least one of the output destination device and the medium size has been changed; and output a notification when the second determination result indicates that the output destination device does not permit the mixture of the different medium sizes.

An image forming operation includes a plurality of sheet supply devices, an image forming device, an operation device that receives an input of an instruction designating one of the plurality of sheet supply devices, as a supply source of a recording sheet for an adjustment operation, and a controller that decides whether the sheet supply device is to be used as the supply source of the recording sheet for the adjustment operation, with respect to each of the sheet supply devices, according to the instruction inputted to the operation device. When causing the image forming device to execute the adjustment operation, the controller causes the sheet supply device, designated as the supply source of the recording sheet for the adjustment operation, to supply the recording sheet to the image forming device.

An image forming apparatus may comprise a holding container that holds a toner containing an antibacterial agent, and an image forming unit that forms an antibacterial region by applying the toner supplied from the holding container to a recording material by performing an image forming process. The antibacterial region is formed on a partial region that is a partial region of a first surface of the recording material and that is likely to be touched by a user's finger

A method for feeding uneven media from a high capacity feeder includes rotating the pages in a stack 180 every 100-250 pages. This is only done with non-flat pages, such as, envelopes, pages with labels thereon, etc., which create tilted stacks and limit the number of pages that can be placed in the high capacity feeder. Rotating the pages 180 distributes the uneven build-up of the pages and creates a relatively flat stack, allowing the high capacity feeder to be filled to capacity. A camera or sensor placed in the high capacity feeder will detect the orientation of the stack on the fly so the image can be rotated accordingly.

An image forming apparatus or an image forming system, includes a control section to control, at the time of forming an image by using a long sheet with a conveying direction sheet length longer than that of a sheet with a fixed paper size, so as to perform image formation by arranging multiple images on the long sheet, and the control section controls so as to form images repeatedly with a predetermined cycle on the long sheet, detects a margin region being a region where images are not formed on the long sheet, and controls image formation so as to dispose a patch image on the margin region.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and a controller. The image forming device forms toner images on an image holding member and transfers the toner images to recording media. When images to be transferred to the recording media are borderless images and the toner images are continuously formed on the respective recording media, the controller extends an image forming pitch compared to the image forming pitch used in a case where images transferred to the recording media are not borderless images.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, an area coverage calculation section, and an image data rotating section. The image forming device forms a toner image in accordance with image data without setting margins at edges of a first recording medium. The area coverage calculation section calculates an area coverage of the image data for a certain region at each of the edges of the first recording medium. The image data rotating section rotates the image data by a certain angle, when the calculated area coverage at one of the edges is a certain value or more, so that the one of the edges is not on a leading edge side of the first recording medium in a transport direction.

This invention relates to a printing apparatus and control method thereof. In the printing apparatus and control method thereof, an image is input, and an envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction. When the envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction, it is controlled to shift the image by a set offset amount to be used to print an image on an envelope, and print the image on the envelope.

This invention relates to a printing apparatus and control method thereof. In the printing apparatus and control method thereof, an image is input, and an envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction. When the envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction, it is controlled to shift the image by a set offset amount to be used to print an image on an envelope, and print the image on the envelope.

When a control unit receives a print request to designate a first size as a size of a sheet and designate a first material as a material of the sheet and a size of the sheet held by a sheet feeding cassette is a second size and a material of the sheet is a second material, the control unit displays a first display in one of a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode based on the first size and the second size, and displays a second display in one of a third mode and a fourth mode different from the third mode based on the first material and the second material.