An information processing apparatus including a controller configured to receive selection of a medium feeder corresponding to a page number from among a plurality of medium feeders that feed a medium; and to regard a page range of the page numbers that have been received as a cycle pattern and to repeatedly apply the cycle pattern to page numbers beyond the page range, to set, as the medium feeders corresponding the page numbers beyond the page range, the medium feeders corresponding to the page numbers in the cycle pattern.

A printer includes a display, and a controller configured to obtain image data for a plurality of pages displayable on the display, display, on the display, an image based on image data for at least one page among the obtained image data for the plurality of pages, and perform printing based on the obtained image data when a display mode for the image displayed on the display fulfills a print start condition.

An inspection apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: conducts an inspection on an image by comparing a scanned image with a correct image, the image being formed on paper in accordance with a print job, the scanned image being generated by reading the image, the correct image serving as a reference for the inspection of the image; and determines whether a page is a target for the inspection in accordance with a type of the paper on which the image will be formed according to print setting of the print job, wherein the hardware processor conducts the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to be the target for the inspection by the hardware processor, and does not conduct the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to not be the target for the inspection.

In the embodiments described herein, partially encrypted print jobs are described which include unencrypted print job commands and encrypted print data objects. One embodiment comprises a print controller that includes a memory and at least one processor. The memory stores a print job comprising one or more print data objects, and print job commands that define data boundaries in the print job for the print data objects. The at least one processor processes the print job commands to identify the print data objects for the print job based on the data boundaries, encrypts the print data objects using a key while the print job commands remain unencrypted, generates a partially encrypted print job comprising the encrypted print data objects and the unencrypted print job commands, and provides the partially encrypted print job.

An inspection apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: conducts an inspection on an image by comparing a scanned image with a correct image, the image being formed on paper in accordance with a print job, the scanned image being generated by reading the image, the correct image serving as a reference for the inspection of the image; and determines whether a page is a target for the inspection in accordance with a type of the paper on which the image will be formed according to print setting of the print job, wherein the hardware processor conducts the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to be the target for the inspection by the hardware processor, and does not conduct the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to not be the target for the inspection.

An image forming system includes an acquisition unit that acquires setting information indicating an execution condition which is set to execute printing from printing instruction information for giving an instruction for execution of the printing, a first designation unit that designates an execution condition which is different from the execution condition related to the setting information acquired from the printing instruction information as an exception for plural specific page images included in the printing instruction information, and a second designation unit that repeatedly designates the exception designated by the first designation unit every number of pages of the plural specific page images for plural page images other than the plural specific page images.

The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for handling a document including a combination of normal pages and secure pages. The method includes receiving a print job from a user including one or more pages tagged as secure pages and the remaining pages tagged as normal pages. Based on the tagging, the normal pages are printed automatically without requiring any authentication information from the user and the secure pages are printed upon receiving an authentication information from the user. Finally, based on user's input, the printed secure pages and the printed normal pages are rearranged to have a complete ordered printed document.

A printing method for performing poster printing in a printing system comprising a plurality of printing apparatuses, the printing method includes dividing original image data to be printed into a plurality of divided image data, assigning each of the divided image data to two or more printing apparatuses among the plurality of the printing apparatuses, acquiring print dimension accuracy information of each of the printing apparatuses assigned with the divided image data, performing dimension correction on a part or all of the divided image data corresponding to the printing apparatus assigned with each of the divided image data based on the acquired print dimension accuracy information, and performing printing by the printing apparatus assigned with the divided image data based on the divided image data that underwent the correcting step.

In a printing apparatus, a controller is configured to: receive compressed image data; store the compressed image data into a memory; individually identify partial compressed data in the stored compressed image data, the partial compressed data corresponding to separate images; store the partial compressed data into the memory or store information identifying each of the partial compressed data, into the memory; a first creating processing for decompressing one of the partial compressed data and creating print data based on partial decompressed data obtained by decompressing the one partial compressed data; and a first output processing for outputting the created print data. The controller repeats the first creating processing and the first output processing a number of times corresponding to the number of the partial compressed data. The printing apparatus performs printing based on the print data output in the first output processing.

An image forming apparatus includes a display, and a scanner that reads one or more originals to obtain image data of the originals and a number of the originals. A memory device stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor executes the instructions to, among other things, display a first screen including an item for accepting a designation, by a user, of an insertion position of an insertion sheet. If a designation for insertion of the insertion sheet is made, the item includes an initial value of the insertion position that is determined based on the number of the originals that have been read by the reader. The at least one processor also executes the instructions to display a second screen including information related to the insertion sheet in accordance with receiving the designation by the user via the first screen.