The present invention discloses a restaurant-based point of sales system. The restaurant-based point of sales system mainly comprises a cloud-based point of sales system, a cloud-based print service system and a hybrid-cloud application. Here, the cloud-based point of sales system is configured to record an order whenever a diner orders food at a restaurant. The cloud-based print service system is configured to generate one or more print orders based on the recorded diner orders. The hybrid-cloud application is installed on an end user device implemented in a restaurant to communicate with a cloud-based print service system to facilitate remote printing in parallel for every transaction. The hybrid-cloud application maintains routing rules to check one or more printers available on the local network and to print invoice/bill, one or more items at different printers in one or more kitchen stations in parallel for every transaction.

A control method for an information processing apparatus that communicates with the information processing apparatus includes acquiring information on a first printing apparatus, displaying a first selection screen including a first display item regarding the first print apparatus on a display unit based on the acquired information on the first printing apparatus, and receiving, on the first selection screen, an instruction for registering the first printing apparatus onto the print control software. Based on the reception of the instruction for registering the first printing apparatus on the print control software, the first printing apparatus is registered onto the print control software and on OS-standard print software.

An MFD is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include receiving an email, determining that a user wants to establish a connection based on the email, generating a reply email to the user, wherein the reply email includes an executable file that automatically configures an endpoint device of the user to establish the connection, transmitting the reply email to the user, and establishing the connection to the endpoint device of the user in response to execution of the executable file by the endpoint device of the user.

An information processing system includes: a processing apparatus that includes a first processor and performs processing of print data; and a management apparatus that includes a second processor, generates print data, transmits the print data to the processing apparatus, and manages the print data, the first processor being configured to: make a request to the management apparatus for registration of first print data with the management apparatus, the first print data serving as a target for processing by the processing apparatus, the second processor being configured to: receive the request for the registration from the processing apparatus, and in response to the first print data not being the print data generated by the management apparatus, newly register the first print data with the management apparatus and manage the first print data.

A processing system includes a service provider, such as a printing device, that receives requests to process tasks or jobs from service requesters. At times, the service provider will not be available for processing and will generate deferral responses to the service requesters. The deferral responses include a condition to be met before processing requests can be resent from the service requesters. After the condition is met, the processing requests are resent to the service provider to be fulfilled.

A server includes an information storage portion, an application reception portion, and a transmission portion. The application reception portion receives a work application for work desired by a user. The transmission portion transmits identification information and work information of the user to a printing device. The printing device includes a storage portion, a user identification portion, a work hours determination portion, an end time determination portion, and a deletion portion. The storage portion stores information transmitted from the server. The user identification portion identifies the user that is logging in. The work hours determination portion determines whether the date and time of login is within work hours. The end time determination portion determines whether the current time is after the work end time. The deletion portion deletes information corresponding to the user from the storage portion when the current time is after the work end time.

A data transmission apparatus includes a reception processing portion and a transmission processing portion. When an instruction to print data is input, the reception processing portion receives a selection operation to select a destination of the data from a printing apparatus that can print the data or a storage that can store the data. The transmission processing portion executes a first transmission process of sending a print job including the data to the printing apparatus when the printing apparatus is selected by the selection operation, and executes a second transmission process of sending the data to the storage using storage location information associated in advance with the storage when the storage is selected by the selection operation.

An information processing method for an information processing apparatus that communicates with an image output apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus operates in at least one of a first connection mode in which the information processing apparatus is wirelessly connected to the image output apparatus via an access point and a second connection mode in which the information processing apparatus is wirelessly connected to the image output apparatus without intervention of the access point. The method comprises: executing setup processing comprising: registering a first print queue to be used at the time of printing via the connection unit operating in the first connection mode, and registering a second print queue to be used at the time of printing via the connection unit operating in the second connection mode.

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.

A printer system includes a management server that acquires position information of a printer and identifies a role of the printer set for the position of the printer based on the acquired position information, and the printer that acquires information associated with a role of the printer identified by the management server and operates based on the acquired information. The printer may update printer settings based on setting data acquired from the management server. The printer may acquire print data stored in a storage location identified by the management server and perform printing based on the acquired print data.