A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which when an error occurs in the printing step and then the error is resolved and printing is resumed, a display is performed by switching to an uncustomized printing screen immediately after resuming.

The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.

A printing control apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain plural pieces of data posted in a group in a messaging service, and perform control in such a way as to print a certain one of the plural pieces of data according to a certain member of the group.

A print job transmission device includes a print job generator to generate a print job on a basis of a PDF file that exists under a hot folder, and a print job transmitter to transmit the print job generated by the print job generator. The print job transmitter obtains an IP address and a port number of a destination of the print job based on the PDF file from a folder name of the hot folder in an upper hierarchy of this PDF file, on a basis of a specific rule.

By using the present disclosure, for example, a notification of an error that has occurred in a device can be received even in cloud printing. Some embodiments provide a method performed by executing an application using an information processing apparatus that transmits print data to be transferred to a printing apparatus by a server system, the method including transmitting, to the server system, a request to check a processing status of the print data in the printing apparatus, receiving the processing status of the print data from the server system having responded to the request, and displaying the received processing status on a display unit of the information processing apparatus.

An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, and a processing execution method. The information processing system in response to a transmission of a print job from a terminal device to a virtual printer registered in an external print service, receives information for identifying the virtual printer and the print job from the external print service, based on association information associating identification information of an application and information for identifying a virtual printer, identifies an application associated with the information for identifying the virtual printer that is received, and processes the print job by the application.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions. Executing the instructions by the processor causes the processor to perform operations. A virtual device on the information processing apparatus to transmit a print job to an image forming apparatus is selected. A user interface is displayed that is for activating, in accordance with the selected virtual device and among one or more applications to provide an additional function to the image forming apparatus, an application that corresponds to a model of the image forming apparatus to which the selected virtual device transmits the print job.

An approach is provided for configuring printing devices using a mobile device. The mobile device acquires, from a configuration manager, data that identifies a plurality of configurations available for a printing device. The mobile device displays the data and a user selects a configuration for the printing device. The mobile device causes the selected configuration to be applied to the printing device.

An information processing apparatus includes a control unit that emphasizes, in a screen area for a related application program generated from a standard application program, a setting that has been extracted from plural settings to be displayed for the standard application program and whose setting value has been changed from a predetermined state.

A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which in the displaying step, at least one of a plurality of printing screens including the customized printing screen is automatically selected and displayed depending on a status in the printing step.