There is provided a printing control device. A setting unit sets a sorting priority mode that causes a printing device to perform printing using a recording sheet in which the difference from the recording sheet size designated by a current print job mounted on the printing device is within a predetermined range, in a case where a recording sheet with a same size as the recording sheet designated by the current print job is not mounted on the printing device, and a recording sheet which has a recording sheet size that is printable without reducing the printing range, and for which the difference from the size of the recording sheet designated by the current print job is within a predetermined range is mounted on the printing device in a sheet feed direction different from the sheet feed direction of the recording sheet of the previous print job.

A system for controlling an operation of feeding recording media from a plurality of physical medium containers of an output apparatus includes at least one memory to store output-related media/container information including logical information, property information of the recording media, and information of the plurality of physical medium containers by associating the logical information and the property information of the recording media, and associating the logical information and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers, and circuitry configured to generate an output instruction including logical information, extract the logical information from the output instruction, and identify one or more physical medium containers each containing a specific recording medium to be used in performing an image forming operation by referring the property information of the recording media and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers each associated with the extracted logical information in the memory.

An image forming apparatus enables utilizing an output of proof printing as an output of final printing, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an image former forming an image on a sheet, an image reader reading an image formed on the sheet, and a controller, wherein the controller acquires a determination result of whether or not a sheet, on which an image read by the image reader is formed before the final printing by the image former in order to create a reference image to be used for inspecting an output matter of a printing job, can be used for an output matter of the final printing and controls the number of sheets or copies on which the images are to be formed using the image former at the final printing.

An image forming apparatus that suppresses print position displacement. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet storage sections configured to store sheets. A sheet storage section to be used is selected out of the plurality of sheet storage sections. An image is formed on a sheet supplied from the selected sheet storage section and the image position is adjusted using adjustment values associated with the selected sheet storage section. When an update action performed by sheet replenishment or sheet replacement is detected for a sheet storage section, the sheet storage section for which the update action has been detected is controlled so as not to be selected by the selection unit until a predetermined time period elapses after detection of the update action.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an image forming device performs printing based on setting information of a print job in a mode giving priority to the setting information, and the device comprises: a feeding unit that feeds paper based on the setting information; a first determining unit that determines whether or not a first paper type is same as a second paper type, the first paper type being the setting information of the print job, and the second paper type being a type set in a paper feeding section; a second determining unit that determines a degree of mismatch between the first and second paper types if the first determining unit determines that the first and second paper types are not the same type, wherein the feeding unit does not feed paper if the second determining unit determines that the degree of mismatch exceeds a threshold value.

An identification apparatus uses a sensor to sense a sheet, thereby obtaining a parameter concerning a characteristic of the sheet, and identifies a type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the parameter obtained by the sensor to an estimation model obtained by machine learning using a parameter of a sheet as input data and a type of a sheet as supervised data, the type used as supervised data corresponding to the parameter used as input data. The apparatus performs re-learning such that the identified type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the parameter obtained by the sensor as the input data to the estimation model becomes the type of the sheet represented by input information if the identified type of the sheet and the type of the sheet represented by the input information are different.

An image forming system displays warning information representing a state of no printing sheet detected in a first sheet holding unit, and displays information representing a normal state of no sheet printing sheet detected in the second sheet holding unit. In a case where a transition occurs from a state where at least one printing sheet is in the second sheet holding unit to a state where there are no sheets in the second sheet holding unit while the image forming apparatus performs printing using the printing sheets held in the second sheet holding unit, displaying warning information representing a state of no printing sheet in the second sheet holding unit and changes to information representing a normal state in the second sheet holding unit if a predetermined period has passed.

A sheet discharging apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion supporting a sheet discharged out of a nip portion nipping the sheet and a guide portion provided opposed to an upper surface of the sheet fed out of the nip portion. The guide portion includes a fixed restricting portion restricting a rear end of the sheet with respect to a sheet discharging direction to moving upward away from an extension line in a sheet discharging direction of the nip portion after passing through the nip portion.

An image forming apparatus includes a reader configured to read a paper used for printing, a controller configured to generate paper information indicating the type of paper read by the reader, and a storage unit configured to store the paper information in association with history information of a paper. The controller updates history information corresponding to target paper information when the target paper information indicating a same type of paper as the paper indicated by newly generated paper information is stored, and causes the storage unit to store the newly generated paper information when the target paper information is not stored. The controller searches for paper information indicating the type of paper input in a search operation, and causes an operation panel to display the history information corresponding to the found paper information.

An image formation apparatus includes a communication unit, a controller, an operation unit, and an image forming device. The communication unit is configured to receive, as a printing job, a printing setting and printing data. The printing setting includes a size corresponding to one of a longitudinal-feed envelope and a lateral-feed envelope, but does not designate which of the longitudinal-feed and lateral-feed envelopes undergoes printing. The raster image generator is configured to generate a raster image corresponding to the longitudinal-feed envelope and a raster image corresponding to the lateral-feed envelope in accordance with the printing data. The operation unit is configured to display a screen that receives a selection between the longitudinal-feed and lateral-feed envelopes to receive the selection made by a user. The image forming device is configured to perform printing with the raster image corresponding to the longitudinal-feed or lateral-feed envelope selected.