A print apparatus configured to connect a plurality of wireless LAN adapters which can store regional information indicating a region, the print apparatus includes a print mechanism configured to print on a print medium; a plurality of USB ports to which the wireless communication adapters configured to be connected; and a processor configured to acquire the regional information items from the plurality of connected wireless LAN adapters in a case of detecting that the wireless LAN adapters are in a state of being connected to the plurality of USB ports and executes use adapter control processing which sets all the wireless communication adapters to be in an unusable state in a case where any one of a plurality of items of the regional information indicating the region are different from others, based on a result of comparison of the plurality of acquired regional information items to each other.

An image forming apparatus includes: a processor that analyzes printable data to generate rendering data, renders the rendering data to generate image data, and acquires the number of pages of the image data, supplies the printable data to one or more external image forming apparatuses, and acquires, from each external image forming apparatuses, the number of pages of image data generated by the corresponding external image forming apparatus by analyzing the printable data to generate rendering data and rendering the generated rendering data, sorts the information processing apparatus itself and the one or more external image forming apparatuses into one or more groups of the same number of pages, and determines whether or not the information processing apparatus itself belongs to a group having the largest number of image forming apparatuses, and outputs the generated image data where the information processing apparatus itself belongs to the group.

A printing apparatus management server manages a plurality of printing apparatuses, obtains, in response to a request from a voice device management server, information of a predetermined printing apparatus registered, from the plurality of printing apparatuses, as a printing apparatus to be used in the printing apparatus management server, transmits, to the voice device management server, the obtained information of the predetermined printing apparatus, obtains remaining amount information transmitted from the predetermined printing apparatus, and transmits the obtained remaining amount information to the consumable item management server. Voice notification to a user is performed, via a voice device configured to communicate with the voice device management server, based on the obtained remaining amount information, and processing for placing an order for the consumable item is performed based on a voice instruction from the user accepted by the voice device.

A controller to control an apparatus (e.g. a printer) can include multiple secondary sub-controllers and a main sub-controller. Each of the secondary sub-controllers can have an operator process and one or more executable control processes. Each of the control processes can be configured to exchange data with one or more other of the control processes. The main sub-controller can be communicatively coupled to the secondary sub-controllers via a data network. Each of the main and secondary sub-controllers can include at least one processor and an operating system. The respective operator processes can be configured to communicate via the data network, and the control processes of each of the secondary sub-controllers can be configured such that the control processes communicate exclusively with the operator process of their respective secondary sub-controller to communicate via the data network.

An image processing apparatus comprises: an accepting portion that accepts a request for a temporary use permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from a second portable terminal apparatus in place of a first portable terminal apparatus having a proper use permission to use the function, an obtaining portion that obtains application information of an application installed on the second portable terminal apparatus; a determining portion that determines a scope of the temporary use permission with reference to reference data stored on a management apparatus and on the basis of the application information; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the requested process falls within the determined scope when a request for a process requiring the function is received from or transferred to the second portable terminal apparatus; and an executor portion that executes the requested process if it falls within the determined scope.

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.

An image output system includes a terminal, a server, and a printing device that are communicable with each other via a network. The server includes: a storage device; and a CPU that executes a program for the server to function as a data generating portion configured to generate raster image data by executing a RIP process on the basis of print data received from the terminal and as a data transmitting portion configured to transmit data for outputting an image, to a destination that outputs the image. The data transmitting portion transmits, to the destination, the print data received from the terminal or the raster image data generated by the data generating portion, according to a kind of the destination.

An image forming apparatus includes: a processor that analyzes printable data to generate rendering data, renders the rendering data to generate image data, and acquires the number of pages of the image data, supplies the printable data to one or more external image forming apparatuses, and acquires, from each external image forming apparatuses, the number of pages of image data generated by the corresponding external image forming apparatus by analyzing the printable data to generate rendering data and rendering the generated rendering data, sorts the information processing apparatus itself and the one or more external image forming apparatuses into one or more groups of the same number of pages, and determines whether or not the information processing apparatus itself belongs to a group having the largest number of image forming apparatuses, and outputs the generated image data where the information processing apparatus itself belongs to the group.

A service provider system obtains, from a request for registering a job to process electronic data, first user information regarding a first user who sends the request, location information indicating a data storage area at which the electronic data to be processed is stored, and second user information regarding a second user, and allows the second user to execute the job being registered.

An image output system includes a terminal, a server, and a printing device that are communicable with each other via a network. The server includes: a storage device; and a CPU that executes a program for the server to function as a data generating portion configured to generate raster image data by executing a RIP process on the basis of print data received from the terminal and as a data transmitting portion configured to transmit data for outputting an image, to a destination that outputs the image. The data transmitting portion transmits, to the destination, the print data received from the terminal or the raster image data generated by the data generating portion, according to a kind of the destination.