An information processing apparatus, which is communicable with a printing device, includes a control device configured to: receive an obtainment application of paid authority information guaranteeing a paid guaranteed printing amount by a purchasing user; add a value of the paid guaranteed printing amount relating to the corresponding paid authority information to a value of an allowable printing amount for the printing device; associate free authority information guaranteeing a free guaranteed printing amount corresponding to the paid guaranteed printing amount with identification information of the printing device; receive a utilization application of the free authority information associated with the identification information of the printing device; and add a value of a utilized printing amount within the free guaranteed printing amount corresponding to the free authority information to the value of the allowable printing amount.

A printing file management system includes a storage unit configured to cause a recording medium to store a printing file and a processing unit configured to set a storage period for the printing file based on a combination of a security level and repeat printing setting associated with the printing file stored in the recording medium and automatically delete the printing file when the storage period expires.

A print system includes a printing apparatus to print content according to a print job, and a server system to provide at least one of video information or still image information for an online class to a client terminal as distribution information. The client terminal receives notification information indicating that printable study material for an online class is present as the print content, and a print job for printing the study material is issued.

An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a storage printing process that includes storing print data in a dedicated memory, which is a portable memory set as a storage destination to store the print data in the storage printing process when attached to a dedicated port among a plurality of ports, and causing a print engine to perform printing according to the print data stored in the dedicated memory in response to an operation received via a user interface, prior to the storage printing process, set one of the plurality of ports as the dedicated port, in response to a portable memory being attached to a port, determine whether the portable memory is the dedicated memory and the port is the dedicated port, and provide a notification when determining that the portable memory is not the dedicated memory but the port is the dedicated port.

An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: when performing control of outputting a file from a storage unit in accordance with a request from a using user, issue second identification information to the using user, the file having been stored by a registering user in the storage unit, the file being associated with first identification information for identifying the file, the second identification information to be used for recording information related to use of the file; and upon receipt of the second identification information from the using user, perform control of recording the information related to the use of the file.

Provided is an image forming system that can obtain similar output results. The job generation unit generates a job and adds a command including a document acquisition destination to the job. The job transmission unit sends a job to which a command is added. The job acquisition unit acquires the job from the terminal. The command analysis unit analyzes the commands included in the acquired job. The document acquisition unit acquires a document from the acquisition destination according to the analyzed command. The rendering unit renders the acquired document and generates output data. The output transmission unit transmits the rendered output data. The output data acquisition unit acquires the output data. The image forming unit forms an image of the output data.

Embodiments disclosed include systems and methods for computer automated print services control comprising authenticating a user credential input via a user device. The system and method includes generating, by a printer driver comprised in the user device, a user interface comprising features supported by a plurality of printing devices. Further, it includes receiving via the user device over the network, a print instruction comprising the features supported by the plurality of printing devices connected to the computer system over the network. And based on the print instruction, generating a print job in an embodiment. Further, based on the user authentication at one of the plurality of printing devices, converting via a gateway, the received print instruction into a format compatible with that printing device and releasing the generated print job for printing at that printing device, according to an embodiment.

An image forming method, a terminal, and a non-transitory computer storage medium are provided in the present disclosure. The image forming method is applied to a system including a first client, a second client, a server, and a target image forming device. The method includes registering the target image forming device to the server by the second client, and inputting image forming description information of the target image forming device to the server by the second client, where the image forming description information includes an image forming manner corresponding to an image-forming-data transmission path between the first client and the target image forming device.

A control unit is provided that is configured to execute predetermined control processing to prevent printing previously executed by a first printing unit from being executed by a second printing unit, the printing being based on at least one of one or more print jobs received from a server system.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in a case where an intended image forming device is caused to perform printing of an image indicated by print data via a server device in a manner that the print data is transmitted to the server device in response to an instruction from a user while the print data is held in a storage unit, and then a printing instruction is performed on the image forming device by the user, and printing with the print data has been ended at a predetermined timing, execute a process of deleting the print data from the storage unit.