A flatbed printer and a method for a flatbed printer are disclosed. The flatbed printer includes a print controller configured to receive a digital image intended to be printed by the flatbed printer, to receive position information entered by a parameter window of the user interface of the position of the image on the flatbed area, to receive an indication entered by the parameter window that the image has to be positioned on the media piece, to open the parameter window for entry of a set of parameters allowing to define a size of the media piece and a position of the media piece on the flatbed surface, and the image position relative to the media piece, to receive the entered set of parameters, to show the media piece and the image on the flatbed area in the preview window, and, when moving the media piece or the image over the flatbed area in the preview window, the relative position of the image with respect to the media piece is preserved.

A processing job generation apparatus includes a decision unit that decides whether or not a sheet processing apparatus can execute a processing of a sheet based on a layout data.

An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors, and at least one computer-readable medium storing executable instructions, wherein the at least one computer-readable medium and the one or more processors are configured to: cause a first printing setting UI including a plurality of printing setting values corresponding to a plurality of printing setting items to be displayed on a display unit, and cause a second printing setting UI to he displayed on the display unit. The second printing setting UI includes an area for setting contrast, a sample image displayed with the set contrast, and an object for printing the sample image. In causing a printing unit to print the sample image in response to a selection of the object, part of the plurality of printing setting values set in the first printing setting UI are not used, and other remaining printing setting values are used.

An image forming apparatus receives a print job. If the print job includes instruction information for giving an instruction on a sheet setting for a sheet feed unit, the image forming apparatus makes the sheet setting for the sheet feed unit based on the instruction information. The image forming apparatus executes printing based on the print job.

In an example, a method includes rasterizing a seed image using a processor. A plurality of rasterized modified images may be generated from the rasterized seed image. Generating each rasterized modified image may include determining an image attribute modification and applying the determined image attribute modification to at least a portion of the rasterized seed image to generate the rasterized modified image.

An output method executed by a computer includes: receiving compressed data encoded in a state in which a page break is identifiable in print data having a plurality of pages and an encoding dictionary used for the encoding; identifying the page break of the received compressed data and partially decompressing the received compressed data into the print data in units of pages, by using the encoding dictionary; and outputting the print data in order of the decompression.

In a print data editing device, controller is configured to perform: editing; and converting. The editing edits print data representing an input image such that when sub-dots constituting the input image are compared by units of columns before and after performing the editing, a coincidence is maximized when an image of each column in the input image after the editing is the same position as an image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing or is shifted by a corresponding shift amount in a sub-scanning direction relative to the image of the corresponding column in the input image before the editing. The converting includes: determining one or more sub-dot as a conversion sub-dot; and editing the print data such that the print data indicates OFF for the one or more sub-dots determined as the conversion sub-dot.

An image forming apparatus receives a print job. If the print job includes instruction information for giving an instruction on a sheet setting for a sheet feed unit, the image forming apparatus makes the sheet setting for the sheet feed unit based on the instruction information. The image forming apparatus executes printing based on the print job.

An image processing apparatus includes processing request template generation unit that generates a processing request flow in which plural processing requests are associated with each other, as one processing request template, in a case where there is a commonality among plural pieces of image data relating to plural processing requests each of which request type is identified, and a template display control unit that displays the processing request template on a display unit.

An image processing device generates secondary data by acquiring a plurality of pieces of band data from a processor and performing image processing to the band data, and generates an interrupt to the processor each time of generating a piece of secondary data. The processor includes a division line number setting portion and a band dividing portion. The division line number setting portion sets, for each of the page images, a division line number representing a number of line images based on contents of one or more predetermined reference parameters related to load of the processor. The band dividing portion divides data of each of the page images into the plurality of pieces of band data each of which is composed of data of as many line images as the division line number.