An image forming apparatus which appropriately avoids a resource conflict in the image forming apparatus. A checking unit checks whether a type of an application program execution of which has been ordered is a specific type. A control unit allows execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as being the specific type, and restricts execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as not being the specific type.

When scanning a document, an image scanning device conveys the document toward an image scanning position in a power supply stop state in which power supply to an electronic component is stopped, sets a power supply state in which power is supplied to the electronic component before scanning the document at the image scanning position, scans the document at the image scanning position in the power supply state, and sets the power supply stop state after scanning the document at the image scanning position.

By executing parallel processing while keeping a certain parallel number with respect to one user according to a status of processing for converting print data, an information processing apparatus controls the job order and monopolization of computing resources while effectively utilizing scalability of a cloud service.

An image forming apparatus which appropriately avoids a resource conflict in the image forming apparatus. A checking unit checks whether a type of an application program execution of which has been ordered is a specific type. A control unit allows execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as being the specific type, and restricts execution of a job issued by the application program the type of which has been determined as not being the specific type.

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a reading unit; a print unit; a transmitting unit; an execution instruction receiving unit; and a control unit, wherein in case that before a predetermined time elapses since the execution instruction receiving unit receives a first execution instruction for executing a first job including reading of the original set to the reading unit, the execution instruction receiving unit receives a second execution instruction for executing a second job including the reading of the original, and in case that the first execution instruction and/or the second execution instruction is a remote instruction, the control unit controls the transmitting unit so as not to transmit the image of the original even though a transmitting instruction for transmitting the image of the original is included in the first execution instruction and/or the second execution instruction.

An image printing apparatus includes a printer assembly, a control panel configured to receive a user input, a memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive first data from a first data source such as a PC external to the printer assembly, store the first data in the memory, and control the printer assembly to print a first image based on the first data stored in the memory. In response to a first user input received from the control panel during the print of the first image, the controller is configured to receive second data from a second data source such as a scanner assembly, and store the second data in the memory during the print of the first image.

An information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts a configuration of a cooperative operation to be performed by multiple apparatuses cooperating with each other, an execution order determination unit that determines an executing order of processes included in the cooperative operation, an apparatus determination unit that identifies, for each of the processes included in the cooperative operation, an apparatus that performs the process, and a controller that instructs the identified apparatus to execute the processes included in the cooperative operation in the determined executing order.

A management device capable of communicating with a device to be managed that performs a task includes a storage that stores a task list used to manage the task, and a controller. The controller acquires the task to be performed in the device to be managed and information regarding the device to be managed, generates a task group in a case that no task group is present to which the acquired task belongs, and registers the acquired task in the task list in a case that a task group is present to which the acquired task belongs, and the task for the device to be managed is not present in the task group.

An image reading apparatus comprises a first reading section; a second reading section; a conveyance section which conveys the sheet sequentially to the first reading section and the second reading section; a control section which executes a first storage operation of storing image data read by the first reading section in a storage section and a second storage operation of storing image data read by the second reading section in the storage section, determines whether the reading operations of the first reading section and the second reading section, the first and the second storage operations are ended normally and deletes, if any one of the operations is not ended normally, the image data of the sheet not scanned normally stored in the storage section.

An object is to perform processing on an expedited basis by a plurality of printers while maintaining the total power consumption of the plurality of printers at a low level. A server for managing a plurality of jobs to be performed by a plurality of image forming devices having a print engine, the server comprising: a job division instruction unit configured to instruct the image forming devices to which the jobs are input to divide each of the plurality of jobs into preprocessing that does not involve driving of the print engine and postprocessing that involves driving of the print engine; and a job management unit configured to control timing of starting the postprocessing to prevent the postprocessing from being performed simultaneously by the plurality of image forming devices.