Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which includes: a frame with an image forming portion; an operation unit being arranged to be movable with respect to a top surface of the frame; a cable with an electric wire which connects the frame and the operation unit; and an outlet provided on the frame or the operation unit, wherein the cable includes: an elastic member provided along the electric wire from the frame to the operation unit, the elastic member having a width equal to or greater than a diameter of the electric wire; and a protruding portion with elasticity, provided on a side of the elastic member on which the electric wire is arranged such that the protruding portion protrudes from the side of the elastic member, the protruding portion having a height which is equal to or greater than the diameter of the wire.

A communication apparatus determines whether to stop data reception during interpretation of the data according to a situation.

When a feeding apparatus of a first type is connected to a first mounting surface, a processor outputs, to the feeding apparatus of the first type via a first signal terminal, a control signal. When the feeding apparatus of the first type is connected to a second mounting surface, the control unit outputs, to a feeding apparatus of a second type via a second signal terminal, a control command for controlling the feeding apparatus of the first type. When the feeding apparatus of the first type is connected to the second mounting surface, the feeding apparatus of the second type outputs, to the feeding apparatus of the first type via another signal terminal, a control signal based on a control command for controlling the feeding apparatus of the first type outputted from an image forming apparatus.

An image forming system including plural image forming apparatuses, being tandemly-arranged, and forming an image while assigning an area of a recording sheet, wherein each individual image forming apparatus including a display section which is configured to display various information and a control section which is configured to detect connecting positions of each individual image forming apparatus in the image forming system, and to control each individual display section to display a typical information based on detected results.

In a case where the printing of a plurality of copies based on an original image is to be executed by causing a feeding stage which is set for each of the plurality of copies to perform feeding, a feed operation is controlled so as to stop feeding from a feeding stage which serves as a feed target when a sheet attribute designated in a job and a sheet attribute set in the feeding stage are different from each other.

A printing apparatus that is capable of executing, based on printing data, printing onto a first side of a printing medium and printing onto a second side, which is the back side of the first side, after the printing onto the first side is provided. A print density of a predetermined region at a rear end of the printing medium in a transporting direction at a time of printing of the first side is identified based on the printing data. Conversion data, which is a conversion coefficient to make the identified print density equal to or lower than a predetermined density, is acquired. The printing data is converted by means of the conversion data. Printing onto the first side is executed based on the converted printing data.

A control device includes: a prohibition unit that prohibits a user from using an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative usage amount of the electronic apparatus by the user for a predetermined period and a new usage amount which is newly instructed by the user exceeds a permitted amount for the user in the period; a subtraction unit that, in a case where the user instructs the electronic apparatus to be continuously used after the use of the electronic apparatus is prohibited by the prohibition unit, subtracts from permitted amounts for the user for a plurality of periods later than the period; and a permission unit that permits the user to use the electronic apparatus after the subtraction is performed by the subtraction unit.

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.

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.

Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving, at a first printing device, a request to print a print job, determining, by the first printing device, whether the print job has been received by the first printing device, in response to determining that the print job has not been received by the first printing device, determining whether a second printing device has received the print job, and, in response to determining that the second printing device has received the print job, retrieving the print job from the second printing device and printing the print job at the first printing device.