A control device includes a processor that controls a printing manufacturing process including printing processing and post-processing in plural types of printing manufacture, in which the processor is configured to: according to an occurrence of an event in which the printing processing has ended but printing manufacture to be performed again is required, acquire information about a type of a sheet from printing manufacture information about printing manufacture having a delivery date; predict a time required for each processing of the printing manufacturing process in the printing manufacture; calculate an end time of reprinting manufacture, in which the printing manufacture to be performed again is required, in a case where the reprinting manufacture is incorporated so as to be continuous with other printing manufacture in which the same sheet as the reprinting manufacture is used; and perform control to determine whether or not to incorporate the reprinting manufacture so that the reprinting manufacture is continuous with the other printing manufacture depending on whether or not the end time is in time for the delivery date.

An image forming apparatus includes a measurer that measures biometric information of a user, an analyzer that analyzes the measured biometric information, a job accepter that accepts jobs, a job executer that executes the jobs accepted by the job accepter, a hardware processor configured to estimate a job execution time period during which the job executor executes each of at least one of a plurality of jobs accepted by the job acceptor, to estimate a finish time point at which the analyzer finishes the analysis, and, in response to start of measurement of the biometric information by the measurer, to change execution order of a relating job, which relates to the user who is a subject of the measurement by the measurer, among the plurality of jobs such that a period during which the relating job is executed and the finish time point have a predetermined relationship.

An electronic device includes a CPU that executes the process execution program to function as a plurality of process execution units as threads and an execution control unit. The plurality of process execution units use the CPU to execute a process. The execution control unit controls executing of the process by the plurality of process execution units. The execution control unit sets a CPU usage priority level for each of the plurality of process execution units. The execution control unit changes the CPU usage priority level of the job of a type other than a specific type to a priority level that is equal to or less than a specific priority level, when the job of the specific type and the job of the type other than the specific type are simultaneously executed.

An image forming apparatus which is capable of efficiently executing print jobs. The image forming apparatus receives a second print job after receiving a first print job and prints a plurality of copies of print data corresponding to the first print job. Whether or not the print data is to be printed by sort printing is determined, and when the print data is to be printed by sort printing, reception of the second print job is restricted until printing of the print data is completed, and when the print data is not to be printed by sort printing, reception of the second print job is not restricted even before printing of the print data is completed.

A print job transmitting device acquires the job execution order from the image forming apparatus every time a specific time period is lapse until the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus is not different from a new job execution order after requesting the image forming apparatus to change the job execution order into the new job execution order, and notifies the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus when the job execution order acquired from the image forming apparatus is not different from the new job execution order.

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.

An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives jobs, an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet, a storage unit, and a controller. Each of the jobs is a first type job or a second type job. The first type job includes recipient-specific information that specifies a recipient of a sheet on which an image related to the first type job is formed, and the second type job does not include the recipient-specific information. In a case that a job is received by the receiving unit while not executing any job, the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image related to the job on a sheet. In a case that another job is received by the receiving unit while executing the job, the controller stores the another job in the storage unit.

An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes an image forming portion configured to form a pattern image for image quality adjustment in a marginal part other than an image forming region of a recording medium, a reading portion configured to read the pattern image for image quality adjustment formed on the recording medium, and a control portion configured to reflect a reading result by the reading portion on image quality adjustment and determine an execution order of jobs corresponding to presence/absence of the image quality adjustment set for each job.

A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.

An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a first storing process including storing into a storage first image data received from a first external device via a first communication interface, when a value representing a condition of a wireless connection between the first external device and the first communication interface is less than a threshold, perform a first image forming process including after completion of the first storing process, controlling the image former to perform image formation for the stored first image data, and when the value is less than the threshold, in response to receiving second image data from a second external device via a second communication interface during the first storing process, perform a second image forming process in advance of the first image forming process, the second image forming process including controlling the image former to perform image formation for the second image data.