There is provided an image forming system including at least a first image forming apparatus that includes a first image forming unit and an obtaining unit configured to obtain operation-related information related to an operation of the first image forming unit. The image forming system further includes a carryover unit configured to carry over, to a second image forming apparatus, information related to an operation of a second image forming unit of the second image forming apparatus among the operation-related information obtained by the first image forming apparatus when the second image forming apparatus is newly used in the image forming system. The operation-related information includes operation history information of the first image forming unit.

An image forming device connected to a terminal device, the image forming device includes a recognition information receiver that receives recognition information that is unique information of the terminal device from the terminal device, a storage that stores the recognition information received by the recognition information receiver, and a determiner that compares the recognition information received by the recognition information receiver with the recognition information stored in the storage to determine whether the received recognition information is stored in the storage, wherein, if when the determiner determines that the received recognition information is not stored in the storage, the image forming device performs guidance processing that notifies operation contents in the terminal device.

A supporting program according to aspects of the present disclosures can be executed by a CPU of a PC and corresponds to a printer connected to the PC. When the PC receives a print instruction to cause the printer to perform printing through a general-use printing program implemented in the OS of the PC, in advance, the supporting program causes the PC to output a preceding operation command to cause the printer to perform a preceding operation before starting printing. The printer performs a preceding operation corresponding to the preceding operation command.

An image processing apparatus acquires a plurality of pieces of image data sequentially outputted from an imager and, in accordance with reception of an image capturing instruction to capture a still image, specify as image data to be processed a plurality of pieces of image data in a period that includes a timing at which the still image is captured. The image processing apparatus, based on an action of a subject estimated using the image data to be processed, add information that indicates the action of the subject to data of the still image.

According to an aspect of the disclosure, an information processing apparatus comprising a communication circuit and a control circuit is provided. The control circuit transmits reduced image data of captured image data, to a first external apparatus through the communication circuit; receives, from the first external apparatus, a result of evaluation processing applied to the reduced image data; on the basis of the result of the evaluation processing, determines whether to apply image processing to the captured image data corresponding to the reduced image data, by a second external apparatus; transmits the captured image data that is determined to be applied the image processing, to the second external apparatus through the communication circuit; and receives, from the second external apparatus, a result of the image processing applied to the captured image data.

A printing system includes a printing unit, a determination unit, and a switching unit. The printing unit prints an image on a recording medium. The determination unit compares a prestored reference image and a read image corresponding to a reading result of a printed document in which the image is printed on the recording medium and determines whether a result of the comparison satisfies a predetermined condition. The switching unit switches a discharge destination of the recording medium based on a result of the determination. The switching unit switches a conveyance path of the recording medium based on whether the determination is performed.

An image processing apparatus includes a controller, a display, and a job executor that executes a job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from a terminal device, wherein the controller starts up, an application in response to a startup instruction, generates apparatus information including identification information on the image processing apparatus based on the started application, displays the generated apparatus information on the display for the terminal device, and controls the job executor to output the job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from the terminal device having read the displayed apparatus information, and terminates the application when a termination determination time has elapsed after startup of the application.

A printing device has a print unit for printing on roll paper; a wireless communication unit for communicating wirelessly with a paired control device; and a controller for receiving print data by wireless communication from the control device, and controlling the print unit based on the received print data. When changing from a pairing-disabled mode to a pairing-enabled mode, the controller controls the print unit to print pairing-related information on roll paper, does not process pairing in the pairing-disabled mode, and processes pairing when a pairing request is received in the pairing-enabled mode.

A terminal device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of switching an operation mode between an energy-saving mode and a normal mode, and a controller, wherein the controller, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses via the communicator, receives information of each image forming apparatus including the operation mode, based on the information of each image forming apparatus, displays states of the operation modes of the image forming apparatuses, and sends a request signal, which switches the operation mode, via the communicator to the image forming apparatus selected from among the displayed image forming apparatuses.

A communication system includes an information processing apparatus, a plurality of devices, and a communication management apparatus to communicate with the information processing apparatus and each of the plurality of devices. The information processing apparatus includes first circuitry to receive registerable device information transmitted by the communication management apparatus, the registrable device information indicating one or more registerable devices, among the plurality of devices, in which a particular application and particular settings are registrable, and transmit, to the communication management apparatus, registration setting information for registering the particular application and the particular settings, the registration setting information being set for a particular group of a plurality of groups based on the registerable device information. Each of the one or more devices includes second circuitry to receive the registration setting information from the communication management apparatus and register the particular application and the particular settings based on the registration setting information.