An information processing apparatus includes a processor, and the processor is configured to acquire, in printing processing for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object by forming respective images on recording media and stacking the recording media, a print job including at least one of two-dimensional image data for forming a two-dimensional image and three-dimensional image data for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object, an instruction of a user for the print job, and attribute information of a plurality of printing apparatuses that are candidates to perform the print job, and select a printing apparatus to perform the acquired print job from the plurality of printing apparatuses based on whether the image data contained in the print job is two-dimensional image data or three-dimensional image data, the attribute information, and the instruction of the user.

An image processing apparatus includes: a determiner configured to, upon determining that information processing is not to be performed by the image forming apparatus based on a load status of the image forming apparatus, determine whether or not other image forming apparatuses on a network include an alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing based on load statuses of the other image forming apparatuses acquired from a server apparatus via the network; and a requester configured to, when the other image forming apparatuses include the alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing, request the alternative image forming apparatus to perform the information processing, but when the other image forming apparatuses do not include the alternative image forming apparatus capable of performing the information processing, request the server apparatus to perform the information processing.

A data state manager may include a production intent module to define a production intent, a capability module to identify a number of capabilities of a plurality of media printing devices to which the data state manager is coupled, and a data stream module to, through a plurality of communication links to the media printing devices, stream a plurality of data streams to the plurality of media printing devices in a synchronized manner based on a number of characteristics of the streamed data and the identified capabilities of the media printing devices, with the data streams defining the production intent.

An information processing device includes a controller that causes a display to display a screen for correcting a setting to troubleshoot according to a right of a user when a predetermined process to be executed fails.

A print data control apparatus includes a reception section that receives print data which is to be printed in a first printing apparatus; a transmission section that transmits the print data, which is received by the reception section, to a second printing apparatus; an information acquisition section that acquires information related to the second printing apparatus; and an acceptance section that accepts an instruction which is to be provided to the second printing apparatus that designates a type of processing with respect to the print data transmitted by the transmission section, that is, an instruction which is selected based on information acquired by the information acquisition section.

A self-organizing, distributed printing system utilizes a plurality of digital front ends coupled to to printers and configured to periodically poll a distributed electronic ledger for a print job. Each digital front end adds a bid block to the distributed electronic ledger requesting a page range of the print job to be allocated to the digital front end for printing; and further adds a vote block to the distributed electronic ledger to approve or deny a bid block for the page range added to the distributed electronic ledger by other of the digital front ends; and further may release all or part of a page range allocated to the digital front end back to the distributed electronic ledger in response to a print failure by a printer associated with the digital front end.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores program instructions executable by a processor of an information processing device that includes a storage, an operation interface, a display, and a communication interface configured to communicate with a plurality of devices. The program instructions are configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to set a first device selected from among the plurality of devices as a target device to perform a particular process registered in the storage, when receiving an operation to change the target device from the first device to a second one of the plurality of devices via the operation interface, determine whether the second device is capable of performing the particular process, and control the display to display a result of the determination as to whether the second device is capable of performing the particular process.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to specify plural use apparatuses to use an image of an identical document generated by an image generation apparatus, based on input workflow information, acquire requirements of an input image of each of the plural use apparatuses, and execute a provision process of providing generation information indicating that an image is generated according to a set of values of image attributes satisfying the acquired requirements, to the image generation apparatus.

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating using a first communication method and communicating using a second communication method performs, in a case where attempting processing fails to establish a connection with a communication apparatus using the first communication method without using an external apparatus, communication with the communication apparatus by the second communication method and transmits a job to the communication apparatus via the connection with the communication apparatus using the first communication method, the communication being used to establish the connection with the communication apparatus using the first communication method.

System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.