An information processing apparatus of the present invention manages whether to set each of a plurality of images as a retrieval target in a management unit, retrieves an image similar to an image of a first product from a plurality of images managed as retrieval targets by the management unit in a case where an instruction to start the execution of jobs for manufacturing the first product is issued, and performs control to execute the jobs used for manufacturing the first product and controls the management unit to manage an image corresponding to the first product as a retrieval target in a case where no image similar to the image of the first product is retrieved.

Provided is an image forming apparatus and a sorting method allowing paper sheets to be sorted by size or thickness from a bundle of documents that have been already printed with no need for adding a sensor, or the like, or during the time for printing preparation, or the like. The image forming apparatus includes a first detecting part, a paper discharging part and a control part. The first detecting part detects the pass of an edge part of the document. The control part determines the length of a document along the direction of conveyance from the time required from the moment when the document reaches the first detecting part to the moment when it pass the first detecting part, determining the sorting destination.

A printing device for performing printing by arranging a plurality of images in a predetermined printable range, wherein the printing device includes a calculation section for calculating the maximum number of the images that can be arranged in the printable range when the size of the image is changed according to each of a plurality of conversion scales for changing the size of the image and a list display section for displaying, as a list, the plurality of conversion scales and the maximum number corresponding to each of the plurality of conversion scales.

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.

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.

A control apparatus controls a sheet feeding apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a sheet delivering apparatus so as to perform image formation based on image data while conveying a long sheet at a constant speed, and at the time of executing image formation of another image based on another image data other than the image data in the middle of image formation based on the image data, the control apparatus controls to stop conveying of the long sheet temporarily, and controls to cut out a region where the another image is formed in the state of stopping conveying of the long sheet temporarily.

Names of finishing-job storage folders stored within a portable electronic memory apparatus are limited to only names of known finishing workflows. Connection of the portable electronic memory apparatus to a printing system is automatically detected, and for each print job, the printing system is automatically instructed to perform a finishing workflow that corresponds to the name of the finishing-job storage folder in which the print job is located. The printing system is required to evaluate whether the printing system can perform the finishing workflow, based on the status of the finishing components. Thus, the printing system is required either to perform the finishing workflow (if the printing system can perform the finishing workflow) or provide a menu on a user interface of the printing system (if the printing system cannot perform the finishing workflow).

An image forming apparatus connected to a first post-processing machine that executes first post-processing on at least one of a plurality of sheets includes: an image forming device that forms an image on each of the sheet; and a controller that instructs, in response to an output of a target sheet that satisfies a specific condition from the image forming section, the first post-processing machine to execute the first post-processing on the target sheet and a stacked sheet among the sheets.

An information processing apparatus of the present invention manages whether to set each of a plurality of images as a retrieval target in a management unit, retrieves an image similar to an image of a first product from a plurality of images managed as retrieval targets by the management unit in a case where an instruction to start the execution of jobs for manufacturing the first product is issued, and performs control to execute the jobs used for manufacturing the first product and controls the management unit to manage an image corresponding to the first product as a retrieval target in a case where no image similar to the image of the first product is retrieved.

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.