Examples relate to computer-implemented methods for a printing system comprising a printhead, and to printing systems. A method for a printing system comprises retrieving a stored first offset applied to the printhead to align the printhead, the first offset determined based on a first user input signal; and further aligning the printhead according to a further offset determined based on a further user input signal, the further offset indicating a difference from the first offset.

A control device includes a processor that controls a printing manufacturing process including printing processing and post-processing in plural types of printing manufacture, in which the processor is configured to: according to an occurrence of an event in which the printing processing has ended but printing manufacture to be performed again is required, acquire information about a type of a sheet from printing manufacture information about printing manufacture having a delivery date; predict a time required for each processing of the printing manufacturing process in the printing manufacture; calculate an end time of reprinting manufacture, in which the printing manufacture to be performed again is required, in a case where the reprinting manufacture is incorporated so as to be continuous with other printing manufacture in which the same sheet as the reprinting manufacture is used; and perform control to determine whether or not to incorporate the reprinting manufacture so that the reprinting manufacture is continuous with the other printing manufacture depending on whether or not the end time is in time for the delivery date.

An image processing apparatus described in the present specification includes a display unit configured to display a software keyboard, a reception unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from the information processing apparatus based on a depression of a keyboard, a storage unit configured to store the signal received by the reception unit in association with information about a hardware key provided on the image processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to display a character based on the signal received by the reception unit on the display unit in a case where the software keyboard is being displayed by the display unit, and to perform processing corresponding to a depression of the hardware key information about which is stored in the storage unit in association with the signal received by the reception unit in a case where the software keyboard is not being displayed by the display unit.

An image printing method and printer is provided. The method comprises obtaining an original data file of an image to be printed from a database; dividing the original data file into a plurality of first data files and storing the first data files in a plurality of first memory blocks correspondingly; receiving an image printing request, the image printing request carrying first position information of the image to be printed; determining from its position information of the image to be printed second position information contained in the first position information, and filling a first data file corresponding to the second position information to a second memory block from the first memory block where the first data file is located through memory mapping mechanism to form a second data file to be printed; and printing and outputting the second data file in the second memory block.

At least one embodiment of a post-processing apparatus performs post-processing on a product printed by a printing apparatus, and transmits a completion notification, indicating that the post-processing apparatus has completed the post-processing, to the printing apparatus based on whether there is a subsequent post-processing apparatus to the post-processing apparatus. At least one embodiment of an image forming apparatus holds job data, performs print processing of the job data, and deletes the held job data in a case where the completion notification is received.

A controller is configured to: acquire access information indicating a transmission source of instruction data, a process to be executed by a printer including download printing of downloading a document from a storage on a network and printing the document, a print mode in the download printing including first and second modes, based on the access information, access, via a communication interface, a server that is the transmission source of the instruction data, and receive the instruction data transmitted from the server; and in response to determining that the instruction data includes an execution instruction of the download printing, determine the print mode based on characteristics of the document; and based on the determined print mode, download the document via the communication interface, from a particular storage instructed by the instruction data, thereby receiving the document, and perform printing based on the received document, thereby performing the download printing.

A communication apparatus may obtain a first wireless connection request from a first external apparatus, determine whether a connection number has reached an upper limit, supply first wait information to the first external apparatus in a case where it is determined that the connection number has reached the upper limit, and newly form a second wireless network which is different from a first wireless network to which both of the communication apparatus and a specific external apparatus had belonged, so as to establish a wireless connection with the first external apparatus, in a case where a wireless connection between the communication apparatus and the specific external apparatus is disconnected after the first wait information is supplied to the first external apparatus. In the first and second wireless networks, the communication apparatus may be configured to operate as a parent station.

The location of a printing device is determined. Environmental conditions in which the printing device operated when printing a print job are determined based on the determined location. An environmental adjustment factor for the printing device is determined based on the determined environmental conditions. A predicted print material usage of the printing device in printing the print job is adjusted based on the determined environmental adjustment factor.

A print job transmitting device acquires the job execution order from the image forming apparatus every time a specific time period is lapse until the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus is not different from a new job execution order after requesting the image forming apparatus to change the job execution order into the new job execution order, and notifies the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus when the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus is not different from the new job execution order.

A printing system includes a printer and an information processing apparatus which communicates with the printer. The information processing apparatus transmits a printing capability information request to the printer. The printer transmits the printing capability information of the printer to the information processing apparatus, in response to the printing capability information request. The information processing apparatus is configured to receive the printing capability information transmitted from the printer, receive an input of a print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information, determine a corresponding data correction manner based on a receiving result in the receiving of the input of the print quality setting, acquire intermediate print data from a general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing apparatus, generate, using the intermediate print data, print output data based on the data correction manner, and transmit the print output data to the printer.