Electronic equipment wirelessly communicates with a terminal apparatus through a wireless communication unit and includes a direction-information acquiring unit and a processor. The direction-information acquiring unit acquires, through wireless communication with the terminal apparatus by the wireless communication unit, direction information concerning a direction of the terminal apparatus with respect to a reference position of the electronic equipment. When determining based on the direction information that the terminal apparatus is located in a predetermined direction range, the processor performs processing for displaying, on a display, a display screen based on user information of a user of the terminal apparatus.

A printing device comprises a nozzle configured to eject liquid by an energy generating element, a first selector configured to select, for each particular time period, data indicating a drive waveform based on a voltage value in the particular time period, a signal generator configured to generate a time-division multiplex signal, and a separator configured to separate a drive waveform signal indicating the drive waveform from the time-division multiplex signal generated by the signal generator. The energy generating element is configured to be driven by the drive waveform separated by the separator, and the signal generator is configured to increase an assigned time period, in the particular time period, assigned per the drive waveform selected by the first selector as a number of the drive waveforms selected by the first selector decreases.

An image processing device reduces influence from delay due to one or more post processors and efficiently utilizes resources of an image former, to improve productivity. The image processing device includes: a job taker configured to take a print job; and a print data producer configured to output print data to an image former, configured to form an image on a sheet, and control a cutter configured to cut, inline, the sheet having the image formed and the image former. When the job taker takes a first print job to use the cutter and then takes a second print job not to use the cutter, the print data producer executes the first print job concurrently with the second print job.

Provided is a print processing device including a processor configured to: use paper information including at least information of remaining amounts of a plural stack of continuous paper as information of the continuous paper and print processing information including information of print processes; and display information of at least one of executable print processes that are executable based on paper information of specific continuous paper including information of a remaining amount of the specific continuous paper among the plural stacks of continuous paper.

A printing system uses an IoT technology to control and monitor a multiple printing devices. Each of the multiple printing devices is equipped with an IoT-controlled power supply. A monitoring device is disclosed that couples with the server and can be part of the server or a separate device from the server. The monitoring device monitors the statuses of the sever, the multiple printing devices, and the multiple IoT-controlled power supplies and send an alert signal to the server when detecting an offline situation. In response, the server diagnoses and determines which printing devices are offline and triggers a recovering device to recover a connection between the offline printing devices and the server. The recovering device may use a controller firmware of the offline printing device to perform the connection.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores software including plural element programs to be executed by the processor. At least one of the plural element programs causes the processor to execute a specific process in the case where a different element program is being updated. The specific process includes handling a situation in which the different element program is being updated.

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus having a plurality of operation modes including a normal mode and a power saving mode in which power consumption is less than that in the normal mode and includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire information about unexecuted print jobs via a communication interface or the like. The processor transitions the apparatus to the power saving mode after a preset standby time elapses after a completion of a print job by the apparatus if an unexecuted print job satisfies predetermined conditions that indicate that the unexecuted print job can be executed on the apparatus. The processor transitions the apparatus to the power saving mode sooner than the elapse of the preset standby time after the completion of the print job if none of the unexecuted print jobs satisfies the predetermined conditions.

A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for comparing usage of plural printers. The method includes collecting print information on each of a plurality of printers, the print information including print volume, printer run time, printer print time, printer stop time, and raster image processing time; and displaying, on a graphical user interface, a printer usage dashboard, the printer usage dashboard including a line chart of print volume for the plurality of printers, a bar chart of printer stop time for each of the plurality of printers, and a scatter chart of printer usage for the plurality of printers.

An information processing apparatus includes an interface, a first load device, a battery, a controller, and a plurality of power transmission paths including first to third power transmission paths, wherein the controller is configured to start up the controller with power having a first power amount from an external device via the interface, request a second power amount greater than the first power amount to the external device, determine whether it is possible to receive power supply of the second power amount from the external device, supply power to the first load device via the second power transmission path to start up the first load device, and supply the power to the battery via the third power transmission path.

A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system are disclosed for comparing usage of plural printers. The method includes collecting print information on each of a plurality of printers, the print information including print volume, printer run time, printer print time, printer stop time, and raster image processing time; and displaying, on a graphical user interface, a printer usage dashboard, the printer usage dashboard including a line chart of print volume for the plurality of printers, a bar chart of printer stop time for each of the plurality of printers, and a scatter chart of printer usage for the plurality of printers.