A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling the roll-fed printing apparatus for printing print jobs on a recording medium by means of a print mechanism. The method comprising the steps of receiving a print job with print job settings, adding the print job to a print queue of the roll-fed printing apparatus, specifying a first start position on the recording medium for printing the print job, due to a planned finishing action automatically adding an additional job to the print queue in order just behind the print job or in order just before the print job, specifying a second start position on the recording medium for processing the additional job in a neighborhood on the recording medium of the print job, specifying a width and a length on the recording medium for processing the additional job, the width and the length determined by the kind of the finishing action, upon arrival of the print job at the head of the print queue or upon arrival of the additional job at the head of the print queue whichever arrives at first, printing the print job and processing the additional job at the first start position and at the second start position respectively, wherein the additional job is a non-printing job during execution of which the recording medium is moved relative to the print mechanism without any printing at the second start position over an area which corresponds to the specified length and width.

A printing apparatus having a copying function includes a document feeder that feeds a document, an image reading section that scans the document fed from the document feeder and generates image data of the document, a printing section that performs printing on paper in accordance with the image data, and a controller. The controller performs an avoidance process of avoiding performing the printing in which a size of a sheet of the document and a size of the paper do not match against an intention of a user, in a case where a setting is made in which the document, on which single-sided printing is performed, is printed on both sides of the paper to perform double-sided printing, and the document includes sheets having different sizes and includes an odd number of successive sheets with an identical size.

In a printing system capable of supplying a sheet of a job having undergone print processing by the printing unit of a printing apparatus to a post-processing unit capable of executing at least a specific type of post-processing among a plurality of types of post-processes, when the target job requires the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is inhibited from executing print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by a user using a user interface unit. When the target job does not require the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is permitted to execute print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by the user using the user interface unit.

Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method. A hardware processor of the label-printing control apparatus creates an adjusting image, from a reference mark for determining a die-cutting position on a continuous label stock and a cut mark representing a shape to cut a label image printed on the continuous label stock, both extracted from print data, while arranging specific images each created from the cut mark, to be spaced apart from the respective reference marks with different distances in the adjusting image. The hardware processor further creates, from the reference mark and a label image extracted from the print data, an end product image including the reference mark and the label image, and instructs the label printing device to print the adjusting image and the end product image on a continuous label stock.

An image forming apparatus includes a transferor, a first detector to detect an image formed on the transferor, a second detector to detect an image formed on a recording medium, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to generate first gradation correction data based on a detection result obtained by the first detector, generate second gradation correction data based on a detection result obtained by the second detector, and control gradation correction for the image formed on the recording medium using the first and second gradation correction data. Further, the circuitry is configured to prioritize one of the first and second gradation correction data based on at least one of a characteristic of the recording medium and a characteristic of the image in the gradation correction during consecutive printing in which images are consecutively formed on recording media.

Whether there exists a side area image within side areas of the recording medium is determined. When it is determined that there exists no image within the side areas, a command is transmitted to a printer. The command causes a printer to start conveying of the recording medium at an earlier timing. The side areas of the recording medium are difficult to be heated by a heater arranged at a central portion of a fixing roller. Therefore, in order to heat the side areas, a long time for heating by the heater is necessary. When there is no image within the side areas, the heating time is shortened. Thereby, it is possible to start conveying the recording medium at an early timing, and a time period for completing a printing operation can be shortened.

A printing system and method of printing are provided herein. The printing system may generate custom user designs for printing. The designs may be associated with a selected print medium. The print medium may have a particular layout. The printing system may convert the design for printing on other print media without requiring user alteration or input of the design. In another aspect, the printing system may facilitate printing the designs via local printers and/or via professional printers. Accordingly, printing of designs on different print-receptive media items can be accomplished.

A printing apparatus for printing on a front surface of a printing medium, and thereafter printing on a back surface of the printing medium. The apparatus includes the following elements: a front surface print head for printing a cue mark, and printing a front surface image based on front surface image data with reference to the cue mark; a back surface image data corrector for creating corrected back surface image data based on elasticity information in a transport direction after printing of the front surface image; a detector for detecting the cue mark; and a back surface print head for printing the corrected back surface image data on the back surface of the printing medium with reference to the cue mark detected by the detector.

A fabric inspection device includes a sheet conveying portion, an image reading portion, a timing control portion, a storage portion, a comparing control portion, and a display portion. The image reading portion reads a plurality of images of the same pattern recorded repeatedly with a predetermined pitch on a recording sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying portion. The timing control portion regulates the timing of image reading by the image reading portion. The storage portion stores the plurality of images read by the image reading portion. The comparing control portion takes, out of the plurality of images stored in the storage portion, part of an image continuously recorded on the recording sheet corresponding to the forefront one pitch as a reference image and compares the image data of a comparison image recorded later than the reference image with image data of the reference image to check for image defects.

Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a storage medium that can contribute to formation of electric circuits having different resistance values without causing increase in cost. The image processing apparatus generates print data for printing an electrically conductive print image on a print medium by ejecting a metal particle-containing ink from ejection device, the image processing apparatus has: a setting unit configured to set a printing condition based on a resistance value of the electrically conductive print image so as to change at least one of an amount of ink droplets of the metal particle-containing ink contacting each other and a time to be taken for ejected metal particle-containing ink droplets to contact each other; and a generation unit configured to generate the print data based on image data for the electrically conductive print image and the printing condition.