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Method and device to manage different screens on a production line
11513744 · 2022-11-29 · ·

A printer comprising a controller to control printing operations, a 1st user interface and at least one second user interface, connection to connect the 2.sup.nd user interface with the controller and wireless connection for exchanging data between the 2.sup.nd user interface and the controller when the second user interface is not connected with the printer, the controller being programmed to: detect whether the 2.sup.nd user interface is connected or not with the printer; display a different information on at least the first user interface depending on whether the 2.sup.nd user interface is connected or not.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and computer-readable medium
11513745 · 2022-11-29 · ·

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to display a display screen. The display screen includes a first display or a second display, and a third display. The first display displays, in units of a print job, checking result information obtained by comparing a read result with reference data on an image to be formed on the recording medium. The read result is obtained by reading a recording medium having an image formed. The second display displays, among print jobs, only a print job including a page having at least one abnormality in the image formed on the recording medium based on the checking result information. The third display displays information about the page in the print job including the page having the at least one abnormality and abnormality type information indicating a type of the at least one abnormality present in the page.

IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD

An image forming device includes a printer, a display, and a controller. The printer forms a desired image indicated by image data on a sheet. The display displays the desired image. The controller receives a first designation, by a user, of a designation region of the desired image displayed on the display. The controller receives a second designation, by the user, of a superimposition position at which an abnormality region containing an abnormality is superimposed on the desired image. The controller transmits user designation information indicating the designation region and the superimposition position to an external device.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
11586403 · 2023-02-21 · ·

An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus that obtains a state of a job input to a printing apparatus, generates, based on the state of the obtained job, notification information including instruction information used to control the job, and transmits the generated notification information to a network. A mobile terminal apparatus receives the notification information from the network, and notifies, based on the received notification information, the instruction information used to control the job. The information processing apparatus also estimates an execution result of a job which has been input to the printing apparatus but is in an execution standby state, obtains, as a state of the job, the estimated execution result, and in a case in which the estimated execution result indicates abnormal completion, generates the notification information including the instruction information used to control the job.

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
20230053036 · 2023-02-16 · ·

An image forming apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to stop a print job under execution in response to an occurrence of an abnormality preventing the print job from continuing, set the stopped print job to a skip state, and restart the print job set to the skip state in response to a restart instruction by a user associated with the print job and not by a second user different from the user associated with the print job.

PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIA
20220357902 · 2022-11-10 ·

A printer driver operable on a PC capable of communicating with a printer causes the PC to execute a determination step of determining an error occurring in the printer based on status information obtained from the printer and a control step of controlling information to be notified to an OS printing system operating on the PC according to whether the OS printing system is capable of notifying the determined error.

Method and system for precise placement
11573751 · 2023-02-07 · ·

One embodiment provides a device comprising at least one movable unit, at least one sensor, a printer, at least one processor, and a non-transitory processor-readable memory device storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor causes the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving layout and design information, receiving, from the at least one sensor, contextual information indicative that the at least one movable unit is in direct contact with a surface, and triggering the printer to print one or more markings on the surface as the at least one movable unit moves along the surface based on the layout and design information.

PRINT JOB CANCELLATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
20230100496 · 2023-03-30 ·

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a print job cancellation method, a terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes determining whether a print job is canceled; if the print job is determined to be canceled, adding specific data to print job content of the print job to generate print data, where the specific data is configured to instruct an end of analyzing the print data and/or instruct an end of the print job; and transmitting the print data to an image forming apparatus, such that the image forming apparatus ends the print job according to the specific data analyzed from the print data.

IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD
20230096877 · 2023-03-30 ·

An image forming system includes an image forming unit, an inspection unit, a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet to the inspection unit, a controller configured to execute a first inspection mode in which a sheet having an image formed thereon is conveyed by the conveyance unit to the inspection unit and is inspected, and a second inspection mode in which, without executing image forming by the image forming unit, a sheet is conveyed by the conveyance unit to the inspection unit and is inspected, and a setting unit configured to set a recovery process. The setting unit permits the setting of the recovery process in the first inspection mode and prohibits the setting of the recovery process in the second inspection mode.

PRINTING SYSTEM SUSPENDING PRINTING AND PERFORMING ONE OF POST FEE-SETTLEMENT PROCESS AND RESTART PROCESS

A printing system controls a printing member to perform printing based on a print job for which a charged fee is already settled. The printing system receives a first instruction to suspend the printing started by the printing member and suspends the printing started by the printing member in response to reception of the first instruction. The printing system receives a second instruction as to a post suspending process to be executed after the printing is suspended. The printing system performs one of a post fee-settlement process and a restart process, as the post suspending process. The post fee-settlement process is related to provision of a benefit corresponding to refunding at least part of the charged fee. The restart process is to restart the suspended printing to complete the print job after a reason that the first instruction is made is resolved.