An information processing apparatus includes a printer driver configured to generate a print command compliant with a predetermined printing protocol based on print data obtained from a data generation application, one or more extension modules configured to generate a print command compliant with another printing protocol different from the predetermined printing protocol, a storage unit configured to store information associating the one or more extension modules to be used for generating the print command compliant with said another printing protocol with the printer driver, and an output unit configured to output the print command compliant with said another printing protocol, the print command being obtained through processing of the print data obtained by the printer driver, and the processing being performed by the one or more modules indicated by the information.

An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus includes a storage unit having a folder, a setting unit configured to set a printing condition corresponding to the folder, and a printing unit configured to print a printing target file transmitted from the external apparatus and stored in the folder based on the printing condition set by the setting unit.

According to some embodiments, a printer capability acquiring unit of a general-purpose printer driver acquires, from a printer, definition information (definition for acquisition of apparatus-specific definition) for information acquisition specific to the printer, using definition information for information acquisition (definition for acquisition of apparatus-common information) commonly usable for various printers and independent of vendors or models, acquires, from the printer, configuration information specific to the printer, using the definition for acquisition of apparatus-specific information, and saves the configuration information in an extended information storage unit for each printer. The general-purpose printer driver controls the printer using the configuration information for the printer saved in the extended information storage unit.

An information processing device, a communication system, and a recording medium storing a plurality of instructions. The information processing device and a method caused by the instructions includes generating a second document file from a first document file including data of a plurality of pages, where data of each page in the plurality of pages is arranged in page order and identification information for identifying a boundary of data of each page is included, and transmitting the second document file to an image forming apparatus. The communication system includes the information processing device and the image forming apparatus.

A local delivery service (LDS) operates in an enterprise computer network as a proxy for a communications server (CS) computer operating in a cloud computing environment. The LDS pulls a queue repository maintained by the CS and retrieves an output item flagged by the CS for local delivery. The output item has a document and associated configuration information specifying an application domain in the cloud computing environment and delivery settings specific to the application domain maintained by the CS. The LDS translates the delivery settings and routes the document to the connectors of communications channels of the enterprise computer network. In this way, documents produced by the CS in the cloud can be delivered locally to disparate destinations on the enterprise computer network without having to open individual ports in a firewall of the enterprise computer network to connect the CS with communications channels of the enterprise computer network.

In one implementation, a method for generation of a soft-proof file is described. A ticket template and a job definition are associated with input contents. Print-ready data is caused to be generated based on the input content, the job definition, and the ticket template. A soft-proof file is caused to be generated based on the print-ready data, the ticket template, and the job definition.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the processor to receive image data representing a target image, detect feature image data representing a feature image from the image data, determine range data based on the feature image data, the range data representing a first end position and a second end position of a feature-image including range including the feature image in a particular direction, the particular direction corresponding to a conveyance direction for conveying a printing sheet, generate print instruction data based on the range data, the print instruction data including a command for instructing the printer to print the feature-image including range with priority on print quality and print a range of the target image other than the feature-image including range with priority on a printing speed, and output the print instruction data including the command.

The capability to print to a portable document format (PDF) file is provided in a virtualized computing environment that supports a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Printing-related properties, of local printers coupled to a client device, are provided to a host, so that virtual printers at the host can be configured with the printing-related properties. A simulator may be provided at the host to receive the printing-related properties from the client device and to receive a query from a virtualized computing instance for the printing-related properties, instead of the query being directly sent to the client device.

An image forming apparatus displays, for example, a setting screen as a screen for selecting an application corresponding to an icon selected on a main menu screen. The setting screen displays image processing icons for selecting existing applications and an extended image processing icon for selecting an application added as a plug-in.

The web server program causes the information processing apparatus to function as: a reception unit that receives a request from a web application executed on the web browser; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the request, information about a domain of the web application executed on the web browser; a determination unit that determines whether or not to permit communication with the web application executed on the web browser, based on the domain indicated in the information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a transmission unit that transmits a response to the web browser based on the result of determination of the determination unit, wherein the web server program communicates with an external apparatus connected to a network, and acquires, from the external apparatus, information used for authentication or authorization by the external apparatus.