An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, a transmission unit configured to transmit image data to an external apparatus, a printing unit configured to print an image, a display unit configured to display the image, and a control unit configured to suspend a job executed by the printing unit in response to a selection of a key for suspending a currently executed job, display a list of jobs on the display unit, and cancel a job selected by a user from the displayed list of the jobs. The control unit displays a list of transmission jobs for the transmission unit to transmit the image data generated when the reading unit reads the original in response to the selection of the key during display of a main menu screen for accepting a selection of a function to be used.

A job processing system includes a host computer and an image forming apparatus connected via a network with each other, the host computer includes a job register acceptor that accepts a job register and a communication device that sends the job register to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus includes a display controller and a job execution controller, the job execution controller controls sequential execution of a plurality of jobs shown in the changed job register in accordance with an execution order of the plurality of jobs, and the display controller keeps from making an update to cause a display of the changed job register immediately after a network interface device receives the changed job register, but makes an update to cause a display of the changed job register when a predetermined display updating condition is achieved after the receipt of the changed job register.

An information processing apparatus communicable with an image output apparatus, comprises: a storage unit configured to store first status information concerning whether it is possible to execute a function in the image output apparatus, which is acquired from the image output apparatus; and a display unit configured to display a list of image output apparatuses as management targets based on the first status information stored in the storage unit and second status information concerning a communication state between the information processing apparatus and the image output apparatus. If a condition based on the first status information and the second status information is satisfied, the display unit displays, as a candidate to be deleted from the management targets, an image output apparatus corresponding to the first status information and the second status information.

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.

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.

A varied least recently used (VLRU) caching technique is used to enable print data to be available at a cache of a client for printing, even after an agent performs a deletion of a hash value for the print data at a cache of the agent. The deletion of the print data (cached at the cache of the client) is postponed at the client device via the use of a waiting list, so that the cached print data can be printed at a physical printer of the client, in response to receiving a delayed print job from the agent that specifies the hash value as a result of a deduplication process performed by the agent.

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.

An image forming apparatus includes a confirmer, a response receiver, and a controller. The confirmer causes the image forming device to stand by, without starting production of a printed material, upon deciding that a print request has been sent from a remote location distant from the image forming apparatus, and transmits, through a network I/F, a request for final confirmation just before starting, about whether the production of the printed material may be started, to a user of a terminal device that transmitted the print request. The response receiver receives a response to the final confirmation, from the terminal device owned by the user. The controller causes the image forming device to start the production of the printed material, upon deciding that the response from the user received by the response receiver indicates permission to start the production of the printed material.

An information processing system includes a management device configured to manage print data including plural print data elements, and one or more processing devices configured to process the print data elements for printing. The management device includes a first processor. The first processor is configured to manage the print data and the plural print data elements in association with each other, output each of the print data elements to the processing device associated with the print data element, and in response to specification of a possibility of reprinting of the print data, output the print data element to the processing device while associating information indicating the possibility of reprinting with the print data element. Each of the processing devices includes a second processor. The second processor is configured to process the print data element output from the management device, cause a memory to store the print data element associated with the information indicating the possibility of reprinting, and in response to a reprinting instruction from the management device, process the print data element associated with the information indicating the possibility of reprinting by reading the print data element from the memory.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for monitoring a print job, and an electronic apparatus. The method includes receiving a print job; analyzing the print job and acquiring creation time of the print job; comparing the creation time with current time, and continuing to print the print job if a time difference between the creation time and the current time is less than a first preset value; determining whether the print job satisfies a print cancellation condition if the time difference between the creation time and the current time is equal to or greater than the first preset value; and cancelling the print job if the print job satisfies the print cancellation condition.