Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method. A hardware processor of the label-printing control apparatus creates an adjusting image, from a reference mark for determining a die-cutting position on a continuous label stock and a cut mark representing a shape to cut a label image printed on the continuous label stock, both extracted from print data, while arranging specific images each created from the cut mark, to be spaced apart from the respective reference marks with different distances in the adjusting image. The hardware processor further creates, from the reference mark and a label image extracted from the print data, an end product image including the reference mark and the label image, and instructs the label printing device to print the adjusting image and the end product image on a continuous label stock.

An image forming apparatus includes a printing device to perform normal printing of a job according to a setting, and processing circuitry to: accept a request for executing printing of another job while the printing device is performing the normal printing of the job according to the setting; when the request for executing printing of another job is a request for executing trial printing, control the printing device to interrupt the normal printing of the job to perform the trial printing of the another job; and control an ejection device to discharge a recording medium printed in the normal printing of the job and a recording medium printed in the trial printing of the another job on different sheet discharge trays.

An information processing apparatus connected to a plurality of networks, includes: a plurality of device drivers each of which is receives a packet from each of the networks; and circuitry determines a network to which a transmission source device of the packet belongs based on information indicating which of the device drivers has received the packet.

A printing apparatus has a first binding unit for performing a binding process at any one of plural positions and a second binding unit for performing a binding process at a single position and prints images based on image data on sheets. If the binding process is performed using the first binding unit, the printing apparatus prints images on sheets according to the input order of the image data. If the binding process is performed using the second binding unit, the printing apparatus prints images on sheets according to the input order of the image data, or prints the images according to an order reversed from the input order of the image data, based on the orientation of the images of the image data, the single position and the orientation of the sheets used for printing.

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.

An image forming apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive a first print job and ejection-destination designating information designating one of a plurality of ejection destinations as an ejection destination of a first printed matter based on the first print job. The circuitry is configured to perform, based on the ejection-destination designating information, a determination of whether to eject the first printed matter to a previous ejection destination to which a second printed matter has been ejected based on a second print job received one before the first print job. The circuitry is configured to select the ejection destination of the first printed matter according to the determination.

An information control apparatus includes a controller. The controller controls a printer including a postprocessing unit that performs postprocessing on sheets of paper printed in units of copies and an accumulation unit that accumulates the sheets of paper that have been subjected to the postprocessing such that the sheets of paper are stacked in units of copies. The controller controls the printer such that in a case where printing is stopped and then resumed in a process of the printing by the printer, an indicator indicating a copy that is being ejected at a time when the printing is stopped is inserted.

Provided is a technique for controlling shift of an operation mode from a normal mode to a sleep mode. A printer according to one embodiment includes a print head, a cutter, a detection unit, and a mode control unit. The print head prints an image based on print data on a recording medium. The cutter cuts the recording medium based on a cut command. The detection unit detects that a duration time of an idle state in a first mode exceeds a predetermined time. The mode control unit changes, in response to the detection unit detecting that the duration time of the idle state exceeds the predetermined time, control of shifting an operation mode from the first mode to a second mode in which consumed power is lower than that of the first mode, in accordance with an event related to shift to the idle state.

A bitmap processing system for creating digital documents on a digital printing press by a fulfiller includes a fulfiller operated raster image processor that receives customer application Page Description Language (PDL) job files containing information for creating the digital documents and generates bitmaps in accordance with the files and a fulfiller operated editor that modifies the bitmaps so that the resulting documents process more efficiently in production steps downstream of a printing process.

A non-transitory medium storing a program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus, the program, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to execute: a designating process for designating a database file including a plurality of text data; an associating process for associating the database file designated in the designating process with a text object; and a specific printing process for generating label data, for each of the text data included in the database file, with each of the text data written in the text object, and for causing a label printer to execute printing based on the label data generated.