An image forming apparatus generates embedded information for uniquely identifying a page, for each page of a document, prints the document while embedding the embedded information into the document, and registers a set of pieces of the embedded information in a blockchain service. The image forming apparatus thereby verifies whether the printed product is a correct printed product.

An image processing apparatus receives, in a case where a plurality of cloud services is managed in association with one input confirmation code, an input of a display name to be display in the image processing apparatus and an input of an identification code for each cloud service at a time when the cloud service is selected to be used in the image processing apparatus, and stores a display name and an identification code in association with each other for each cloud service.

To search for a device from an information processing apparatus in Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3), it is necessary to set information such as authentication information. However, there is such an issue that, in a case where settings of such information are inadequate, if a desired multi-function printer (MFP) is a device with settings for responding only to SNMPv3, the desired MFP cannot be found even if a search is performed. Therefore, a user is notified that SNMPv3 settings are necessary.

A management server connected, to a plurality of image forming devices and an information processing device having a printer driver is provided. The server manages, for each location, network information and information of print performance of an image forming device belonging to the location; identifies a location to which the information processing device belongs, based on the network information, upon receiving from the information processing device a notification that network setting of the information processing device has been changed; and transmits, to the information processing device, a device setting of the printer driver based on information of print performance corresponding to an image forming device belonging to the location being identified.

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The information processing apparatus has a console unit that accepts an instruction by a user via a button displayed on a screen. The information processing apparatus registers a setting for executing processing corresponding to the button, prompts a user to input identification information to be added to image data generated by a function corresponding to the button, and when the button is instructed via the console unit, the information processing apparatus outputs the image data to which the identification information has been added to a destination corresponding to the setting which is registered in association with the button.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display, on a display, a character string for identifying an apparatus that is connectable and an image showing the apparatus and a location at which the apparatus is installed.

A method for printing a variable data document includes receiving the variable data document which has a specified or estimated repeat length L; receiving or selecting a designated queue size (DQS) and a parameter Q representing a number of repeated pages to be provided in a chunk; arranging at least a portion of the variable data document into at least one cycle of chunks for processing using raster image processors (RIPs), wherein each of the at least one cycle of chunks contains R chunks and each chunk of a first cycle of the at least one cycle of chunks has a size C determined using DQS, Q, and L; and processing, using the RIPs, the portion of the variable data document into rasters for printing by providing at least one chunk of the at least one cycle of chunks to each of the RIPs.

An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure acquires information about a print job generated in a predetermined print queue by a primer driver, and transmits the acquired information about the print job to an external service to aggregate information about print jobs.

A control method is provided for controlling an information processing device that communicates with a printing device and a service providing device. The control method comprises, for one printing device or each one of a plurality of printing devices to be registered, acquiring device information from the printing device; transmitting the device information acquired to the service providing device and registering the device information acquired; receiving registration information, from the service providing device, for the printing device registered to access the service providing device; transmitting the registration information received to the printing device and storing the registration information received; and via the printing device registered with the service providing device, acquiring and executing a print job held by the service providing device using the registration information.

A printing device, which is communicable with an external device via a cable and performs printing by using first power supplied from an external power supply, includes a volatile storage section having a volatile storage region, a nonvolatile storage section having a nonvolatile storage region, a printing mechanism that performs the printing, a connector that is coupled to the cable and is used for both communication with the external device and supply of second power from the external device, a communication control section that controls communication with the external device via the cable, and a control section, in which, when the first power is not supplied from the external power supply and when the second power is supplied from the external device via the cable, the communication control section, the control section, the volatile storage section, and the nonvolatile storage section operate using the supplied second power.