An information processing system includes a plurality of imaging devices, and an information processing device. The information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive work process data indicating items of multiple work processes; a first image of a first form including first job ID information; and information indicating that multiple pieces are obtained from a first deliverable corresponding to the first form, in a first work process from among the multiple work processes. The information processing device includes a job-ID generating unit configured to generate a second job ID in which distinguishing information is added to a first job ID. The information processing device includes a color-code image generating unit configured to generate second color code data based on the second job ID.

A method of operating a printing system according to a printing path schedule, the printing system including a duplex loop including a plurality of pitches with each pitch of the plurality of pitches operatively arranged to carry one sheet, the method including receiving input data related to one or more images to be printed, preparing a printing path schedule based on the input data, receiving an indication of the delay in the printing system, determining whether the delay is equal to a multiple of a whole pitch of the plurality of pitches, and if the delay is not equal to a multiple of a whole pitch of the plurality of pitches, adjusting the printing path schedule.

An example of an apparatus including a front-end engine to receive document data in a first format for printing via a network. The apparatus includes a conversion engine in communication with the front-end engine. The conversion engine is to carry out a conversion of the document data from the first format to an uncompressed format, wherein the conversion engine generates metrics associated with the conversion. The conversion engine parses the document data in the uncompressed format into a plurality of separations. The apparatus includes a compression engine to process a separation of the plurality of separations from the uncompressed format to a second format, wherein the second format is a predetermined format associated with a printing device. The apparatus includes a print engine controller to transmit the separations in the second format to the printing device, wherein the print engine controller uses the metrics to predict a starvation condition.

An information processing apparatus comprises: a generation unit configured to generate book data formed from a plurality of pages based on original data; a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of pages in the book data, a page whose setting information is to be acquired; a display control unit configured to display an instruction item for reflecting the setting information of the page selected by the selection unit on another page with the same attribute as an attribute of the selected page; and a reflection unit configured to reflect, if the instruction item is selected, the setting information of the selected page on the other page with the same attribute as the attribute of the selected page, wherein display contents corresponding to the instruction item are decided based on the attribute of the selected page.

A print control device includes: an extraction section that extracts plural print data items to be included in a print unit, the print unit being a unit of sequential printing by a printing device; an exclusion section that excludes a specific print data item among the plural print data items extracted by the extraction section, from the print unit; and a control section that performs control such that the print unit from which the specific print data item is excluded by the exclusion section is printed by the printing device.

A printing apparatus of the present invention receives a print job from an information processing apparatus and performs printing. The printing apparatus obtains, from the information processing apparatus, information indicating the number of pages per copy of the print job, determines whether double-sided printing is to be performed for the print job, and determines, based on the obtained information, whether the print job is a print job in which the number of pages per copy is an odd number of pages. The printing apparatus controls to print by inserting a blank page before a page that is received first in the print job, based on a determination that, in the print job, the number of pages per copy is an odd number of pages.

An information processing system includes a plurality of imaging devices, and an information processing device. The information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive work process data indicating items of multiple work processes; a first image of a first form including first job ID information; and information indicating that multiple pieces are obtained from a first deliverable corresponding to the first form, in a first work process from among the multiple work processes. The information processing device includes a job-ID generating unit configured to generate a second job ID in which distinguishing information is added to a first job ID. The information processing device includes a color-code image generating unit configured to generate second color code data based on the second job ID.

An image processing apparatus includes first and second sheet storage units and a post-processing unit to perform specific post-processing on a printed sheet. A print command is received in which a sheet in the first sheet storage unit is specified as a sheet to be used in printing a first copy and a sheet in the second sheet storage unit is specified as a sheet to he used in printing a second copy. In a case where the specific post-processing is unable to he performed on the sheet to be used in printing the first copy, a printed sheet is output without causing the post-processing unit to perform the specific post-processing on the sheets for the first and second copies, even if the print command commands that the specific post-processing be performed in printing the first copy and the second copy.

An image forming system includes a confirmation processing portion and first and second print controlling portions. The confirmation processing portion confirms one or more pages of a multiple-page document as one or more confidential print pages. The first print controlling portion, upon receiving an execution command for a confidential print job according to which the document including the confidential print pages is printed, prints one or more normal print pages that are pages to be printed according to the confidential print job that exclude the confidential print pages, and suspends printing of the confidential print pages. The second print controlling portion prints, when it is determined that the sender of the execution command for the confidential print job has arrived at the location where the image forming apparatus is installed, the confidential print pages among the pages to be printed according to the confidential print job.

Provided is an image forming system for pull printing and does not need a server. A division part generates a blockchain of a document data by generating identification information of the document data for pull print, by dividing into blocks, and by calculating and including a previous hash value of a previous block in order. A storing and transmitting part transmits each of divided blocks. A storing part that stores received block. An outputting and transmitting part transmits the stored block according to the instructions. An identification information acquisition part acquires the identification information of the document data. A block acquisition part acquires each of the block of the document data corresponding to the identification information. A document reproduction part packs each of the block and reproduces to the document data. An image forming part outputs the document data.