A printing control apparatus includes a processor configured to receive instruction information including print data and post-processing information indicating content of post-processing scheduled to be performed on paper on which an image based on the print data is printed, and, in a case where the post-processing included in the instruction information is not performed by a post-processing apparatus, generate an auxiliary image that assists a user to perform the post-processing, based on the post-processing information, and print the auxiliary image, together with the image based on the received print data, on the paper.

A printer according to an embodiment includes a printing unit that prints on a sheet. The sheet is discharged through an outlet. The sheet is conveyed on a sheet conveyance path through the printing unit and to the outlet. A movable device is located on the sheet conveyance path upstream of the outlet in a sheet conveying direction. The movable device can move between a separation position, a proximity position, and a protruding position. A detection device detects a position of the movable device. A controller determines a conveyance abnormality of the sheet based on the state of the movable device detected by the detection device, and outputs a signal indicating the conveyance abnormality.

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.

In accordance with one embodiment, a printing system comprises a memory, a processor and an interface. The processor rewrites the first information contained in the print data stored in the memory and designating a sheet stacking section at an end of a conveyance path of an image forming apparatus. The interface sends the rewritten print data to the image forming apparatus.

There is provided a recording system including: a memory configured to store recording instructions, and medium size information. Each of the recording instructions includes image data, and image size information. The controller is configured to execute a data generating process of generating recording data, and is configured to generate, as the recording data, combined recording data in which images of first and second recording instructions are combined, the first recording instruction instructing recording of an image for one page or odd number pages. The combined recording data is configured to cause a recorder to record, on one recording medium, a first image of a final page among the image for the one page or the odd number pages of the first recording instruction, and a second image of an initial page among an image for one page or a plurality of pages specified by the second recording instruction.

There is provided a printing device. In a case where a sheet of a first direction supplied to a printing unit runs out in the middle of printing a certain unit, a sorting controller supplies sheets of a second direction to the printing unit to enable the continuous printing, and in a case where a direction of the image data of the page already held at the time when the sheet of the first direction runs out does not match with the second direction, rotates the image data such that the direction of the image data matches with the second direction, and for the pages in which the print data is not generated at the time when the sheet of the first direction runs out, instructs the generation unit to generate the image data such that the direction of the image data matches with the second direction.

Apparatuses and embodiments related to compensated laser cutting of labels. A computer system receives an image of a label, and rasterizes the image. The computer system determines how much of each type of printer ink of a label printer to deposit at each pixel location of the image. The computer system determines which pixels intersect a cut line, and determines the characteristics of the ink of the pixels, such as the quantity or thickness of the ink at the pixel locations. The computer system determines laser data including power, cut speed, and/or frequency of a laser that is tuned to accurately cut through the ink that forms the image, the material(s) of the label, and the adhesive that removably adheres the label to base material(s), but to not excessively damage the base material(s). A laser cutting system uses the laser data to control a laser.

According to one embodiment, a printing apparatus includes a conveying unit, a printing unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The conveying unit conveys a sheet. The printing unit prints an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit. The display unit performs display for causing a user to select necessity of re-printing on the sheet on which the image is printed. The control unit controls, if the necessity of the re-printing of the sheet is selected, the conveying unit to back-feed the sheet and controls the printing unit to perform re-printing after the back-feed of the sheet is completed.

By adding a distinction for every sheet bundle of a same delivery destination and ejecting the sheet bundle, a sorting burden on the user is reduced. According to a control method of a printing apparatus, a job including predetermined information is received, an image is printed to a sheet by executing the received job, and on the basis of the predetermined information included in the received job, the sheet which is printed by executing the job is ejected to a position different from that of a sheet ejected before the sheet.

A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second sheet discharge portions to which recorded products each recorded with an image are discharged, an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a reception unit. The recording unit records the image by imparting recording materials. The acquisition unit acquires a recording job instructing recording of the image. The determination unit determines, in a case where sheet discharge destination information included in the recording job indicates the first sheet discharge portion, whether a recorded product of an n-th page is dischargeable to the first sheet discharge portion, wherein n is greater than or equal to one. The reception unit receives, in a case where a result of the determination by the determination unit is that recorded product is not dischargeable to the first sheet discharge portion, an instruction about recording of the n-th page from a user.