In an information-processing device, a controller operates according to setting information. The controller executes selective one of a swap mode and a copy mode. The swap mode is for moving the setting information from one device to another device. The copy mode is for copying the setting information from one device to one or more devices. While a removable medium is connected to the input-output interface: the controller performs; in a swap-mode case where the swap mode is executed, storing in the removable medium the setting information currently stored in the memory and overwriting the setting information in the memory to prescribed initial setting information; and in a copy-mode case where the copy mode is executed, storing in the removable medium the setting information currently stored in the memory while maintaining the current setting information in the memory.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium has a program stored thereon and readable by a processor of an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image processing apparatus. The program, when executed by the processor, causes the information processing apparatus to perform: receiving an execution request to cause the image processing apparatus to perform the image processing, the execution request corresponding to a job; acquiring status information indicating a status of the image processing apparatus; and providing notification, during a notification time period, of error information based on the status information when the status information is acquired during the notification time period, which starts at a time when the execution request is received.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium has a program stored thereon and readable by a processor of an information processing apparatus configured to communicate with an image processing apparatus. The program, when executed by the processor, causes the information processing apparatus to perform: receiving an execution request to cause the image processing apparatus to perform the image processing, the execution request corresponding to a job; acquiring status information indicating a status of the image processing apparatus; and providing notification, during a notification time period, of error information based on the status information when the status information is acquired during the notification time period, which starts at a time when the execution request is received.

A system and method multifunction peripheral policy-based configuration includes a processor and a memory storing a policy data for each of a plurality of multifunction peripheral device configuration policies. A selectable list of the device policies is displayed. A user selects one or more device configuration policies from the list, and the processor tests selected device configuration policies. Policies are identified as single or additive policy types. Selected policies are added when not identified as a single policy type.

In a control device, a controller sets an order condition using a plurality of sets of timing information and a plurality of index values stored in a memory. The plurality of index values is acquired from a recording device under a condition where a first cartridge is mounted in the recording device. The order condition requires that one of a latest index value and a current timing have reached corresponding one of a reference index value and a reference timing, and is set so that a second cartridge is delivered to a predetermined destination at a first timing at which the first cartridge is expected to be out of a printing agent while a tank of the recording device is expected to still accommodate the printing agent. The controller transmits an order command instructing to order the second cartridge to a relevant device after the order condition is satisfied.

The number of days until a consumable item of a printing device reaches end of life is predicted based on a usage scenario of the printing device. An expected fulfillment time period is subtracted from the predicted number of days to determine a number of days until a fulfillment event occurs. A threshold remaining life of the consumable item is correlated with the number of days until the fulfillment event occurs. That the remaining life of the consumable item has reached the threshold remaining life is detected, and fulfillment of a replacement consumable item to replace the consumable item is responsively initiated.

An inkjet printer for printing labels includes: a first interface configured to receive, from a host computer, print data for images to be printed on the labels; a second interface configured to receive, from a sequencer, a first signal indicating a timing to execute a printing operation that includes printing the images, and a second signal indicating a timing to execute a predetermined operation that cannot be executed in parallel with printing the images; and a controller configured to: render the print data received via the first interface, and execute the printing operation based on the rendered print data at a timing based on the first signal received via the second interface, and execute the predetermined operation at a timing based on the second signal received via the second interface.

A printer has a print unit, a printer communicator, printer storage, and a printer controller. The controller controls the printer communicator to receive a print command that includes character data and a font command. The controller acquires font data for characters specified by the character data based on font data and relational information stored by the printer storage 21. The controller generates print data by applying a specific process related to the font type and controls the print unit based on the generated print data to print on a print medium.

Systems and methods for identifying a printer that generated a printed document. The methods comprise: generating an electronic image of the printed document; obtaining a dot pattern contained on the printed document via an analysis of the electronic image; overlaying the dot pattern on Voronoi diagrams; selecting a first Voronoi diagram from the Voronoi diagrams that has a single dot of the dot pattern in each of at least some cells thereof; and identifying a printer associated with the first Voronoi diagram that was selected from the Voronoi diagrams. The printer associated with the first Voronoi diagram comprises the printer that generated a printed document.

A controller sets an order condition requiring that one of a latest index value and a current timing reach corresponding one of a reference index value and a reference timing. The order condition is set so that a first cartridge is delivered to a predetermined destination at a first timing. The first cartridge is expected to be out of a printing agent while a first tank is expected to still accommodate the printing agent at the first timing. The controller transmits, in response to determining that a second cartridge is expected to be out of a printing agent while a second tank is expected to still accommodate the printing agent at the first timing, an order command instructing to order the first cartridge and the second cartridge to a relevant device after the order condition is satisfied.