An inspection apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display information on a display unit, a setting unit configured to set one or more areas including an object to be inspected, and an inspection unit configured to inspect data read from the object included in the one or more areas set by the setting unit. The display control unit displays a graphic to enable recognition of an upper limit of data to be inspected by the inspection apparatus. When the setting unit sets one or more areas, the display control unit displays values based on an amount of data on the object included in the one or more areas set by the setting unit as a graph.

A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes acquiring information on a sheet size specified by a user and acquiring information on a sheet feeding direction to a printing apparatus for sheet corresponding to the specified sheet size. In a case where the sheet feeding direction is a predetermined direction, a predetermined control is executed. After the predetermined control, a drawing application is notified of information on a page setting.

A method for transmitting a message between a first electronic device of a first user and a second electronic device of a second user via a timepiece includes: creating the message to be transmitted by the first electronic device; storing the created message on a remote server and/or in the first electronic device as digital message data; generating a digital graphic representation for the transmission of the message by the remote server and/or by the first electronic device; building a figurative representation pertaining to the digital graphic representation for the transmission of the message on all or a portion of the timepiece by a visual element building device controlled by the server; and transmitting the message by the second electronic device from a digital figurative representation emanating from the capture of the figurative representation included on all or a portion of the timepiece, by this second electronic device.

An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus having a priority paper feed source setting function and a print server that executes predetermined image processing, transmits image data after the image processing to the image forming apparatus, and causes the image forming apparatus to print an image based on the image data after the image processing. The print server (a) acquires a setting value of a priority paper feed source setting from the image forming apparatus, (b) specifies a print sheet orientation of a paper feed source designated as a priority paper feed source based on the acquired setting value, and (c) generates the image data after the image processing by matching an orientation of the image based on the image data after the image processing with an orientation corresponding to the specified print sheet orientation.

Sheet feeding has been started after storing image data for one page of a document. A control method for a printing apparatus includes feeding a sheet from a sheet holding unit by a feeding unit, reading an image of a document by a reading unit, storing image data of the document read by the reading unit in a storing unit, and reading out, before image data for one page of the document is stored in the storing unit, the image data of the document from the storing unit and printing, by a printing unit, the image based on the read image data to the sheet fed from the sheet holding unit by the feeding unit, in which the feeding unit is able to start to feed the sheet from the sheet holding unit before the image data for the one page of the document is stored in the storing unit.

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.

There is provided an image processing apparatus which is provided with a communication interface, and a controller. When multiple print jobs are received via the communication interface, the controller is configured to analyze information included in each of the multiple print jobs, and handle the multiple print jobs as one print job when, as a result of analysis, it is determined that the information satisfies a particular condition.

A method for configuring a raster image processor (RIP) for a digital printing system includes receiving a file for a print job; receiving or determining job characteristics of the print job or the file for the print job; receiving or determining hardware characteristics of hardware upon which the RIP is operating; inputting the job characteristics and the hardware characteristics into a trained artificial intelligence (AI) module; and selecting, using the trained AI module, a configuration or settings for the RIP for processing of the file based on the plurality of job characteristics and the plurality of hardware characteristics.

An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that stores intermediate data of a plurality of print jobs in a storage. The hardware processor is configured to perform, read first intermediate data of a first prim job; rasterize the read first intermediate data to generate print data; output the print data to an image forming apparatus; determine whether reading the first intermediate data allows extra, time in relation to a throughput of a print engine; determine whether reading second intermediate data of a second print job is a bottleneck of a printing time; and execute in parallel reading the first intermediate data and reading the second intermediate data, in response to a determination that the operation of reading the first intermediate data allows extra time in relation to the throughput of the print engine and a determination that reading the second intermediate data is a bottleneck of the printing time.

A communication device may include a controller. The controller may be configured to, in a case where a process executing instruction is sent to a notification server from a terminal device, receive a process executing notification from the notification server, and in a case where the process executing notification is received from the notification server, execute a predetermined process. The process executing notification may be received by operating in parallel in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the process executing notification may be received by sending a polling signal to the notification server. In the second mode, the process executing notification may be received by establishing a connection of server-push type between the communication device and the notification server.