A method of controlling a communication terminal including a near-field communication unit includes setting, as operation settings of the communication terminal, whether to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit and controlling to display a predetermined notification before displaying a screen for performing a login request upon condition that a user operation to transition to a screen for performing a login request to an external device has been received, and that settings have not been made in the setting of the communication terminal at least to enable wireless communication functions by the near-field communication unit as operation settings of the communication terminal.

An information processing apparatus includes a first communication interface for receiving a job, a second communication interface for delivering electric power, a processing unit that performing processing related to the job, and a controller that is configured to, in response to receiving the job received from an external device via the first communication interface, transmits a power request to the external device via the second communication interface.

A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which when an error occurs in the printing step and then the error is resolved and printing is resumed, a display is performed by switching to an uncustomized printing screen immediately after resuming.

An image forming device includes a printer, a display, and a controller. The printer forms a desired image indicated by image data on a sheet. The display displays the desired image. The controller receives a first designation, by a user, of a designation region of the desired image displayed on the display. The controller receives a second designation, by the user, of a superimposition position at which an abnormality region containing an abnormality is superimposed on the desired image. The controller transmits user designation information indicating the designation region and the superimposition position to an external device.

A display screen generation apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring for each of a plurality of print products produced through a plurality of processes, progress of the processes; and a display portion generating a display screen that displays for each of the plurality of print products, the process waiting to be executed, the process being executed, the process already executed, and the process not intended to be executed in a distinguishable manner from each other.

An information processing apparatus communicable with an image output apparatus, comprises: a storage unit configured to store first status information concerning whether it is possible to execute a function in the image output apparatus, which is acquired from the image output apparatus; and a display unit configured to display a list of image output apparatuses as management targets based on the first status information stored in the storage unit and second status information concerning a communication state between the information processing apparatus and the image output apparatus. If a condition based on the first status information and the second status information is satisfied, the display unit displays, as a candidate to be deleted from the management targets, an image output apparatus corresponding to the first status information and the second status information.

An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus that obtains a state of a job input to a printing apparatus, generates, based on the state of the obtained job, notification information including instruction information used to control the job, and transmits the generated notification information to a network. A mobile terminal apparatus receives the notification information from the network, and notifies, based on the received notification information, the instruction information used to control the job. The information processing apparatus also estimates an execution result of a job which has been input to the printing apparatus but is in an execution standby state, obtains, as a state of the job, the estimated execution result, and in a case in which the estimated execution result indicates abnormal completion, generates the notification information including the instruction information used to control the job.

By using the present disclosure, for example, a notification of an error that has occurred in a device can be received even in cloud printing. Some embodiments provide a method performed by executing an application using an information processing apparatus that transmits print data to be transferred to a printing apparatus by a server system, the method including transmitting, to the server system, a request to check a processing status of the print data in the printing apparatus, receiving the processing status of the print data from the server system having responded to the request, and displaying the received processing status on a display unit of the information processing apparatus.

A printing system manages printing devices. A managing server receives device update status information and pending job information from each of the printing devices. A status change for a component within a first printing device is detected, thereby updating the device information for the first printing device. The managing server parses a print job queue for the first printing device to update the pending job information to determine the print job will cause a first potential error related to the changed status of the first printing device. When a new print job is received, the managing server determines that the new print job will not occur according to the first potential error, identifies a second printing device, determines the new print job will not result in a second potential error at the second printing device, and sends the new print job to the second printing device.

An image forming apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to stop a print job under execution in response to an occurrence of an abnormality preventing the print job from continuing, set the stopped print job to a skip state, and restart the print job set to the skip state in response to a restart instruction by a user associated with the print job and not by a second user different from the user associated with the print job.