A system includes a spool directory accessible by a mobile computing device and an imaging device. A user selects for imaging on the imaging device a file accessible by the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device saves the file on the spool directory with a unique name Upon the user accessing the imaging device for imaging, the imaging device generates a unique quick response code. The user captures the code with a camera of the mobile computing device and the code is used by the mobile computing device to rename the file on the spool directory. That the imaging device knows the quick response code, the imaging device accesses and prints the file on media for the user.

Examples of activating cloud services for a printing device are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a printing device activation process to activate a printing device is performed concurrently with a cloud credentials process to receive a cloud authentication token. A cloud services activation process then activates a cloud service for the printing device.

A information collection apparatus for collecting information indicating a state of a printer, the PC configured to perform processing including: collecting a first group of the information; and referring to a collection condition table associating the first group of the information, a first condition, and a second group of the information, wherein when the collected first group of the information satisfies the associated first condition, a determination is made to collect the associated second group of the information, whereas when the collected first group of the information does not satisfy the associated first condition, a determination is made not to collect the associated second group of the information.

An image forming device is provided with an image forming engine, a communication interface configured to communicate with terminal devices, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform obtaining, from an external device, a communication destination list in which statuses of the image forming device and one or more of the terminal devices are stored, and for each of the one or more of the terminal devices, executing a process corresponding to an instruction from the terminal device or restricting a process corresponding to the instruction from the terminal device depending on whether the terminal device is included in the communication destination list obtained in the obtaining.

A control method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes displaying an image corresponding to one section of a plurality of sections of a predetermined operation for another apparatus, which is different from the information processing apparatus, in a predetermined display area, displaying a plurality of thumbnails corresponding to the plurality of sections, and in a case where a user selects a thumbnail from the plurality of thumbnails, controlling in such a manner that an image corresponding to a section of the plurality of sections corresponding to the selected thumbnail is displayed in the predetermined display area, wherein information that represents a section number of a corresponding section of the plurality of sections is added to the plurality of thumbnails.

Onboard vehicle software that performs the following operations: (i) receiving, by a control device installed with a vehicle, situation assessment information pertaining to vehicle traffic; (ii) determining, by the control device, whether the situation assessment information is indicative of an event likely to impact vehicle traffic; and (iii) in response to determining that the situation assessment information is indicative of the event likely to impact vehicle traffic, sending, by the control device, a print command to a printer communicatively coupled to the control device, the printer adapted to print a patterned layer of a coloring substance to a surface supporting the vehicle, and the print command instructing the printer to print the coloring substance to the surface in a pattern encoding a notification.

An information processing device comprising circuitry configured to: acquire identification information for identifying a model; acquire attribute information indicating an attribute of each of a plurality of programs applicable to the model, based on the identification information; and select a program to be installed from the plurality of programs, based on a priority order that is determined in advance for the attribute information.

An information processing apparatus configured to control a cooperation operation that is to be executed by a first apparatus and a second apparatus, executes: determination processing of determining whether the target data associated with operation identification information for identifying the cooperation operation is stored in the storage unit when the operation unit receives a user operation of inputting a start instruction to start the cooperation operation; data transmitting processing of transmitting the target data to the second apparatus through the communication unit when it is determined in the determination processing that the target data is stored in the storage unit; and operation instruction processing of transmitting operation instruction information for executing the first operation to the first apparatus through the communication unit when it is determined in the determination processing that the target data is not stored in the storage unit.

An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same, after obtaining print data from a server and causing an image formation process by an image forming unit based on the print data to start, notify identification information of the print data to the server, and upon obtaining error information related to the identification information as a response to the notification, cause image formation by the image forming unit to stop.

A cloud server for converting a voice command into text code blocks that support a printing service is presented. The cloud server includes a communicator, a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The processor executes the instructions to convert a voice command received from a user terminal through the communicator into text code blocks supporting a printing service and to control the communicator to transmit the text code blocks to the user terminal.