An information processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire resource information concerning a remaining amount of a consumable from an image output apparatus; a generation unit configured to generate notification information indicating a quantity or amount of the consumable based on the resource information acquired from the image output apparatus; and a notification unit configured to make a notification of the notification information generated by the generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires the resource information of a plurality of types of consumables from each of a first image output apparatus and a second image output apparatus. The generation unit generates the corresponding notification information for each of the plurality of types based on the acquired resource information. The notification unit makes a notification of the notification information for each of the plurality of types.

A printing apparatus includes a sending unit to send an order request for requesting an ordering apparatus to order a consumable in a case where a predetermined condition regarding a consumable of which the degree exceeds a predetermined degree is satisfied based on the information related to a contract and information related to the consumable. The sending unit sends the order request based on information related to a current contract and the information related to the consumable in a case where a remaining contract period based on a contract expiration date of the current contract is equal to or more than a predetermined number of dates and sends the order request based on the information related to a next contract in a case where the remaining contract period based on the contract expiration date of the current contract is less than the predetermined number of dates.

A printer driver operable on a PC capable of communicating with a printer causes the PC to execute a determination step of determining an error occurring in the printer based on status information obtained from the printer and a control step of controlling information to be notified to an OS printing system operating on the PC according to whether the OS printing system is capable of notifying the determined error.

A delivery determination apparatus for determining to deliver a consumable obtains information related to a remaining amount of the consumable, obtains information related to a contract of service for providing the consumable, and determines whether to deliver the consumable in a case where the remaining amount of the consumable is less than or equal to a predetermined amount. It is also determined not to deliver the consumable in a case where a number of remaining days up to an end of the contract is less than or equal to a predetermined number of days, even in a case where the contract is within a contract period.

An information processing apparatus includes a print management unit configured to allocate a plurality of print data sets to a plurality of image forming apparatuses, respectively, the plurality of print data sets being obtained by dividing one print data set; a separator data generation unit configured to generate, for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, print data for a separator, the print data for the separator including management information that includes information regarding a particular print data set among the plurality of print data sets and information regarding a particular image forming apparatus among the plurality of image forming apparatuses to which the particular print data set is allocated; and an output unit configured to output, for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, the particular print data set and the print data for the separator to the particular image forming apparatus.

An information processing device is configured to execute a management program and a print server program. The management program determines whether a non-compliant printer is connected to the information processing device, determines whether a print server program is running when the non-compliant printer is connected, starts up the print server program when the print server program is not running, and registers a print server configured by the print server program with an operating system. The print server program receives a print job designating the print server as an output destination, obtains individual print data which is printable by the non-compliant printer, and transmits the obtained individual print data to the non-compliant printer.

One embodiment provides a device comprising at least one movable unit, at least one sensor, a printer, at least one processor, and a non-transitory processor-readable memory device storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor causes the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving layout and design information, receiving, from the at least one sensor, contextual information indicative that the at least one movable unit is in direct contact with a surface, and triggering the printer to print one or more markings on the surface as the at least one movable unit moves along the surface based on the layout and design information.

In a case where a line drawing, such as a thin line, is included within input image data, the output of a non-ejectable nozzle is compensated for while suppressing deterioration of reproducibility thereof. Based on positional information for specifying an abnormal nozzle in which an ejection failure has occurred among a plurality of nozzles arrayed in a nozzle column, a pixel value of a pixel on a pixel line corresponding to the abnormal nozzle and a pixel value of a pixel on a pixel line corresponding to another nozzle that is located in close proximity to the abnormal nozzle and in which no ejection failure has occurred are exchanged for the input image data. Then, halftone image data is generated by performing halftone processing for the input image data for which pixel value exchange has been performed.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a print job cancellation method, a terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes determining whether a print job is canceled; if the print job is determined to be canceled, adding specific data to print job content of the print job to generate print data, where the specific data is configured to instruct an end of analyzing the print data and/or instruct an end of the print job; and transmitting the print data to an image forming apparatus, such that the image forming apparatus ends the print job according to the specific data analyzed from the print data.

A first dot pattern printed according to a result of quantization performed on a multi-valued grayscale value by using a first threshold matrix and a second dot pattern printed according to a result of quantization performed on multi-valued grayscale value by using a second threshold matrix are printed on a print medium in an overlapping manner. In order to generate the threshold matrices, a first initial pattern being a dot pattern corresponding to a first grayscale value and a second initial pattern being a dot pattern corresponding to a second grayscale value lower than the first grayscale value are generated for pixel regions of the first and second threshold matrices. Then, thresholds of the first and second threshold matrices are set such that dot patterns having continuity with the first and second initial patterns are obtained at grayscale values between the first and second grayscale values.