A method of transmitting contents stored in a mobile device may include displaying a list of the contents on a display screen, receiving a user input for selecting content to be printed, on the display screen, displaying a list of printers capable of printing the selected content, and a send to delivery server item on the display screen, transmitting the content to a cloud server based on a user input for selecting the send to delivery server item on the display screen, displaying a printing cost of the content on the display screen while the content is being converted into print data by the cloud server, receiving payment information of the printing cost and receiver information of a printout of the content, and transmitting the payment information and the receiver information to the cloud server.

An apparatus having first and second functions includes a first storage unit that stores data used in first initialization processing of the first function and second initialization processing of the second function, a second storage unit having a data reading speed higher than that of the first storage unit, an execution unit that executes the first initialization processing and the second initialization processing after the first initialization processing, and an acceptance unit that accepts a job of the first function after the first initialization processing, in which the execution unit executes cache processing for caching the data used in the second initialization processing from the first storage unit into the second storage unit during a predetermined period after the first initialization processing is performed and before the job of the first function is accepted and further executes the second initialization processing by using the cached data.

The present disclosure relates to a printing control method and device. The method includes receiving a printing request configured to request a printer to execute a printing task, wherein the printing request comprises first identity verification information and the printing task associated with the first identity verification information; when a first mobile equipment is detected, determining second identity verification information of the first mobile equipment; determining whether the first identity verification information matches the second identity verification information; determining whether a state of the first mobile equipment meets a first preset condition, wherein the state of the first mobile equipment comprises at least one of (i) a distance between the first mobile equipment and the printer, and (ii) a strength of a wireless signal from the first mobile equipment; and when the first identity verification information matches the second identity verification information and the state of the first mobile equipment meets the first preset condition, controlling the printer to execute the printing task.

An image forming system includes a confirmation processing portion and first and second print controlling portions. The confirmation processing portion confirms one or more pages of a multiple-page document as one or more confidential print pages. The first print controlling portion, upon receiving an execution command for a confidential print job according to which the document including the confidential print pages is printed, prints one or more normal print pages that are pages to be printed according to the confidential print job that exclude the confidential print pages, and suspends printing of the confidential print pages. The second print controlling portion prints, when it is determined that the sender of the execution command for the confidential print job has arrived at the location where the image forming apparatus is installed, the confidential print pages among the pages to be printed according to the confidential print job.

Provided is an image forming system for pull printing and does not need a server. A division part generates a blockchain of a document data by generating identification information of the document data for pull print, by dividing into blocks, and by calculating and including a previous hash value of a previous block in order. A storing and transmitting part transmits each of divided blocks. A storing part that stores received block. An outputting and transmitting part transmits the stored block according to the instructions. An identification information acquisition part acquires the identification information of the document data. A block acquisition part acquires each of the block of the document data corresponding to the identification information. A document reproduction part packs each of the block and reproduces to the document data. An image forming part outputs the document data.

An image forming apparatus includes a communication device, a received data processing portion, a human detection sensor, a sensitivity setting portion, a rest control portion, and a return control portion. The sensitivity setting portion sets, based on content of the job data, the sensitivity of the human detection sensor for a time when specific devices including the received data processing portion are in a predetermined rest state. The rest control portion causes the specific devices to transit to the rest state when a predetermined rest condition is satisfied. The return control portion causes the specific devices to transit from the rest state to a return state when the human detection sensor detects a human body in the situation where the specific devices are in the rest state, wherein larger power is consumed in the return state than in the rest state.

An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor including CPUs each including cores, a process being executed by the CPUs, wherein the hardware processor managing the cores causes a first process or a second process to be executed, when the first process is executed, while electric power is uniformly supplied to the cores, allocates a pre-process in which sequential processing is performed to a part of the cores and a post-process in which parallel processing is performed to another part of cores, and when the second process is executed, for a part of the CPUs, allocates the pre-process to a part of the cores while electric power is supplied thereto and causes electric power supply to another part of cores to be stopped, and for another part of the CPUs, allocates the post-process to at least a part of the cores while electric power is uniformly supplied to the cores.

Systems for providing efficient manufacturing of paper, sheet, and/or box products of varying size and structure, often with pre-applied print (pre-print), are provided herein. One or more controllers can be used to aggregate upcoming orders and information needed to complete the manufacturing process for the order. A controller enables a user to prepare control plans (e.g., reel maps, reel plans, etc.) for processing rolls of web product through the manufacturing process. Criteria filtering and/or various features enable generation of efficient and effective control plans for rolls of web product, including, in some cases, multiple orders. The control plan may include a set of instructions for operating one or more systems within the manufacturing process to form the desired finished paper-based product. In such a regard, efficient manufacturing of various paper-based products, including corrugated boxes, folded carton, labels, flexible paper, industrial bags, plates, cups, decor, and many others, can be achieved.

According to examples, a printer may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that may cause the processor to access an instruction to print a print job of a user and determine whether the user is moving toward the printer. In response to a determination that the user is moving toward the printer, the instructions may cause the processor to initiate printing of the print job.

A technique includes processing first data representing a description of a page of a document that is associated with a plurality of cell lines and a plurality of objects to generate second data. The second data represents, for a given cell line of a plurality of cell lines, whether objects of the plurality of objects intersect in the given cell line. The technique includes generating raster image data for the given cell line for a printer based on the second data.