A setting storage device, includes: a storage unit that stores setting information and adjustment information to be associated with each other; and a control unit that in case that first setting information is introduced, compares contents in relation to predefined items of first adjustment information associated with the first setting information with corresponding contents of second adjustment information having been stored in the storage unit and, according to a comparison result, controls whether to store the first setting information to be associated with the second adjustment information stored in the storage unit or to store the first setting information and the first adjustment information associated with the first setting information.

A printer enables determining the replacement status of a printer, thereby enabling forecasting problems specific to a printer location (such as a checkout lane) and problems specific to a business, and enabling easily devising a solution to the problems. A printer 40 disposed to a printer location has an interface 48 to which memory 34 associated with the printer location (lane n) is removably connected; and a printer replacement information writer that writes printer replacement information through the interface 48 to the memory 34 at a specific time.

A printhead assembly includes ink ejection devices having nozzles, and processing electronics in communication with the ink ejection devices. The processing electronics implement logic to receive nozzle data for controlling the ink ejection devices, receive error detection data associated with the nozzle data, detect errors associated with the nozzle data using the error detection data, and generate fault data for the detected errors.

A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an interpreter module to generate Tagged Object Bit-plane data corresponding to drawing objects for each colorant of a device color space during rasterization a print job data and a common buffer to store the Tagged Object Bit-plane data for each colorant.

An information processing apparatus includes a setting value input unit, a first memory, and a second memory. The setting value input unit displays a setting item selection screen for selecting a setting item for which a setting value is to be input, displays, in response to selection of a setting item on the setting item selection screen, a setting value input screen for inputting a setting value of the setting item, and receives a setting value. The first memory stores an additional program for implementing a newly added additional function. The second memory stores a plug-in program which is configured to be able to dynamically cooperate with a system program that controls the entire information processing apparatus and which contains information for inputting a setting value necessary to implement the additional function.

The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for calibrated testing of a printing of an article, the apparatus (100) comprising: data providing device (10) adapted to provide printing data for the article from product data of the article; camera device (20) adapted to capture an image of an article printed by a printing process and to provide it as image data; database device (30) adapted to provide calibration data for the camera device (20); and computer device (40) adapted to perform a quality check of the printing process based on a comparison of the printing data with the image data taking into account the calibration data.

There is provided a control method for an information processing apparatus that stores an editing application with which editing of intermediate data including drawing data generated by a drawing application can be performed, the control method including: obtaining information associated with a print setting; deciding an interface used for obtaining the intermediate data from among a plurality of interfaces on a basis of the obtained information associated with the print setting; and obtaining the intermediate data by using the decided interface, in which the intermediate data output from the editing application is obtained by a printer driver and converted into a print command.

An image processing apparatus, communicable with an image forming apparatus useable for an image forming operation on a recording medium based on input image data, includes a processor to acquire output-side sheet information from the image forming apparatus, the output-side sheet information correlating attribution information related to the recording medium and engine adjustment information indicating image formation processing contents to be used for an image forming operation, to refer processing-side sheet information stored in the image processing apparatus, the processing-side sheet information correlating attribution information related to the recording medium and image processing setting information indicating image processing contents to be applied to the input image data, to generate integrated sheet information by correlating the attribution information, the image processing setting information, and the engine adjustment information, and to store the integrated sheet information in a memory.

An information processing apparatus includes an operation unit, a controller unit, and an external device controller, and a management unit. The external device controller is configured to control connection, writing, and reading of an external memory device. The management unit is configured to manage a mount state and unmount state of the external memory device. The mount state is a state in which the external memory device becomes available when the operation unit or the controller unit recognizes the external memory device. The unmount state is a state in which the mount state is released. The management unit is configured to execute an unmount process depending on the mount state when an unmount request of the external memory device is issued.

An example of a color management module is disclosed. The color management module is to generate a mapping from an incoming color space to a printer color space by a color pipeline. In the generation of the mapping, the color pipeline is adjusted so that the mapping of a target color associated with a first composition further includes adding a quantity of a second composition to the mapping of the target color. The second composition comprises a lower visibility than the first composition.