An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where an executed processing content satisfies a preset condition, register setting information in which a setting value in the processing content is stored for each setting item, as shared setting information usable by plural users.

Print jobs may be broken down according to consumable types, job cost categories, and print speed to determine job costing information. Using this information, an operator can see how resources are being used for printing print jobs. After a print job is completed, the total number of pages, an amount of ink, or an amount of toner is allocated to at least one job costing category. Job costing categories include good use of the consumable type or waste. Waste is further broken down into additional job costing categories. This information also is broken into print speeds based on different media types, media trays, or printing devices. This process provides a more holistic overview of the costs incurred to finish a print job.

An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to transmit data obtained by optically scanning a target object to a service for executing a predetermined process on the data, encrypt processing information for acquiring a result of the predetermined process of the service and executing a process for the result of the predetermined process, and transmit the encrypted processing information to another image forming apparatus.

An image forming system includes a printing management apparatus including a first processor configured to, in a case where a notification indicating that a user enters a region in which authentication of the user is necessary at entry is received, transmit printing data registered in advance by the user who has entered the region to an image forming apparatus installed in the region, and at least one image forming apparatus including a second processor and a memory, the second processor being configured to receive the printing data transmitted from the printing management apparatus, convert the printing data into a printable form, and store the converted printing data in the memory as printable data.

A log printing method includes: configuring a log sampling ratio and a log level for an application; after the application receives a service request, determining, based on the log sampling ratio, whether to print all logs and caching a sampling tag; when the application processes the service request, reading the sampling tag and the log level; when the read sampling tag indicates no sampling, processing, by the application, the service request and printing, by the application, logs that have a log level equal to and higher than the configured log level and correspond to the service request; and when the read sampling tag indicates a sampling, processing, by the application, the service request and printing, by the application, all logs that correspond to the service request.

An information processing apparatus that is used in contact with a user includes a detection unit and a control unit. The detection unit detects a motion of the user in a real space performed without contacting an object that is present in the real space. The control unit instructs the object to execute a specific function in the case where plural motions by users for a common object are detected. The specific function is correlated with the plural motions.

The image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that has a heater, and a required power calculation unit that determines a power Pfsr that is assumed to be required by the heater. Based on a difference between a required power that is determined by the required power calculation unit and a suppliable power, the image forming apparatus selects whether to start printing in a normal mode or to start printing in a power saving mode in which the power that is supplied to the heater is reduced in comparison to the normal mode. The power saving mode includes a plurality of modes, and when a CPU selects the power saving mode, the CPU selects one or a combination of modes from among the plurality of power saving modes based on the aforementioned difference.

Example printing devices and methods of the printing devices are disclosed. Target data is received responsive to imaging the source item. The source item includes a mark indicative of rendering information. The target data is used to detect the rendering information. The target object is output based on the target data and the rendering information.

An image processing apparatus includes an image processing section that performs processing of a job relating to image processing, one or more information processing sections that perform processing on one or more information items as processing targets among information items generated by a device group, a permission acquisition section that acquires a collection permission for each of one or more information items used by the one or more information processing sections, from a manager of the device group or the image processing apparatus, and a collection section that collects the information items used by the one or more information processing sections from devices that generate the information items, under a condition in which acquisition of the collection permission for each of the information items from the manager is completed.

An image processing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores additional processing information which is processing information associated with physical information of a physical information terminal which a user wears, the additional processing information being transmitted from a user terminal that generates the processing information according to an instruction from the user; a first receiving unit that receives the physical information from the physical information terminal; and an execution unit, in a case where the physical information received by the first receiving unit matches the physical information of the additional processing information stored in the storage unit, executes a process corresponding to the processing information included in the additional processing information.