An information processing device includes a linker that links respective identification information of one or more persons and an object involved in a transfer established using a network, and an updater that updates the respective identification information for a subsequent transfer transaction.

Provided is a print controller connectable to each of a cut paper printer and a continuous paper printer, the print controller including a receiving unit that receives a print job in a job ticket format from a print work flow system, a test print instruction unit that generates a print job of a new test print based on the print job and instructs the cut paper printer to execute a print process to execute a test print using print data included in the print job, a holding notification unit that notifies the print work flow system of an effect that the print job is held, and a real print job instruction unit that sends the print data included in the print job and a print parameter to the continuous paper printer and instructs the continuous paper printer to execute a real print job.

A client terminal can control a printer even when the network connection to a web server is interrupted, and can convert character codes using a simple configuration. The client terminal having a standard web browser and connected to a web server and a printer has a web page acquisition unit that uses the web browser to acquire a web page with an embedded printer control script from the web server; a web page display unit that displays the acquired web page and run the printer control script; a character code conversion unit that uses the printer control script to convert script character codes to printer character codes, which is a character code for the device; and a command transmission unit that sends a command containing the converted printer character codes to the printer.

A method, job management apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for a job management apparatus, the job management apparatus managing a print job for at least one printer, wherein the code computer readable code configured to cause the job management apparatus to display a job scheduling screen. The process includes (a) obtaining first information on a job to be executed by the at least one printer; (b) obtaining second information on color reproduction state of the at least one printer; and (c) generating the job scheduling screen, wherein the job scheduling screen is a two dimensional chart in which a first axis indicates an execution length of time for the job or a number of sheets of paper to be used for the job, and in which a part of a second axis of the two dimensional chart indicates the color reproduction state of the at least one printer.

A device control apparatus (mobile equipment) wirelessly receives specification information related to a specifications of a device from the device when a first connection with the device is established using the short distance wireless communication, performs settings related to a process to be executed in the device depending on the specifications of the device on the basis of the specification information, and executes a process of the settings, which depend on the specifications of the device, in the device when a second connection with the device is established using the short distance wireless communication.

A printer may accept a print instruction; start printing of a code image on a print medium; control an operation state of the printer, wherein in a case where the printing of the code image is completed after the printing of the code image has been started, the operation state of the printer is controlled to be a respondent state, and in a case where the printing of the code image is not completed due to an error occurring after the printing of the code image has been started, the operation state of the printer is controlled to be a non-respondent state; receive an authentication request from a first external device; send the authentication response to the first external device; receive connection information from the first external device; and establish, by using the connection information, a wireless connection between the printer and a second external device.

Provided are printers and other electronic devices, systems, methods, and computer program products that automatically detect and determine UTF-16 encoding schemes and endiannesss thereof in an incoming XML data steam for XML declarations without a UTF-16 byte-order mark (BOM) or encoding declaration. This allows for the automatic and unambiguous accurate detection of UTF-16 encoded XML data within a mixed encoding environment, such as from multiple sources using more than one encoding scheme, even when XML data does not start with a BOM or encoding declaration.

On a display unit, a user interface screen including a first acceptance unit configured to, in a case when the information processing apparatus is operating as an access point, accept an end instruction for ending operation as the access point and a second acceptance unit configured to accept a disconnection instruction for disconnecting the connection by the wireless communication with the terminal is displayed.

An image generation-output control apparatus in an image processing system for controlling an image generation and output operation based on an instruction received from a server in the image processing system. The image generation-output control apparatus includes second circuitry including a plurality of second image drawing information generators, each having one or more capabilities compatible with one or more capabilities of a first image drawing information generator of a first circuitry of the server, to generate second image drawing information based on output target image information acquired from the server, an identifying unit to identify generator identification information used for identifying one of the plurality of second image drawing information generators, an identification information unit including the generator identification information associated with one of the plurality of the second image drawing information generators, and the identifying unit, and an identification information manager to manage the generator identification information.

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.