The invention relates to a printing system for printing images and/or documents with at least a first printing module.

To allow flexible setting up, the printing module has a cuboidal housing with a top part, a bottom part, a front part, a rear part and two side parts, the top part with the bottom part and also the two side parts forming a body, which is closed on the front side by the front part and on the rear side by the rear part, a receiving space for a printer being formed within the body and an operator interface and also a removal opening, connected to a removal compartment, for the print media coming out of the printer being formed in the front part.

The present invention is directed to a technique for reducing communication errors in facsimile transmission while restraining an increase in the temperature of a motor during execution of jobs of different types when a temperature reduction control is executed.

An image forming apparatus can include a communications circuit, a printer, and a controller. The communications circuit is configured to communicate with a networked image forming apparatus via a network. The printer is configured to form an image on a sheet. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The controller is configured to acquire sensor data from a sensor operatively coupled to the controller; determine, via the network, a relay image forming apparatus, the relay image forming apparatus having an operating rate being relatively lower than an operating rate of multiple image forming apparatuses including the image forming apparatus and the networked image forming apparatus; and transmit, via the relay image forming apparatus, the sensor data to a predetermined recipient apparatus.

Examples analyze at least one of a plurality of planes of image data of print content to determine media expansion characteristics for the print content based at least in part on the at least one of the planes of image data. Examples adjust, prior to printing the print content, at least one plane of image data based at least in part on the media expansion characteristics to thereby compensate for media expansion during printing of the print content.

An information processing system includes at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to acquire a device internal temperature in an image forming device, and operate an air conditioning device that air-conditions a room in which the image forming device is installed, in a case where the device internal temperature is outside a predetermined reference device internal temperature.

A printing control system includes a processor configured to: in a case where printing device rows configured by a printing device and a device that executes post-processing of a printed matter printed by the printing device are operated in an identical environmental region, group plural printing device rows in which an optimum environmental condition set for each of plural printing device rows is within a preset range; detect an environmental state of the environmental region in which plural printing device rows are operated; and in a case where the detected environmental state is within a preset allowable range from the optimum environmental condition of certain plural printing device rows that are grouped, operate plural printing device rows that are grouped.

In an example embodiment, an image processing system can be implemented, which includes a printing surface and a prism that splits light from an input light source into two parallel light beams indicative of a signal image. Two or more DMDs (Digital Micromirror Devices) can be utilized, wherein the two parallel light beams are directed to the DMDs for image processing, such that as the two parallel light beams are reflected out onto the printing surface, the two parallel light beams are recombined into a single image, thereby enabling heat dissipation while stitching said output of said at least two digital micromirror devices to a usable video path.

There is provided an operating environment evaluation system that includes a physical quantity acquisition unit and a generation unit. The physical quantity unit acquires a physical quantity indicating an operating environment of an image processing apparatus. The generation unit generates an operating environment properness level of the image processing apparatus based on the physical quantity that is acquired by the physical quantity acquisition unit.

There is provided an operating environment evaluation system that includes a physical quantity acquisition unit and a generation unit. The physical quantity unit acquires a physical quantity indicating an operating environment of an image processing apparatus. The generation unit generates an operating environment properness level of the image processing apparatus based on the physical quantity that is acquired by the physical quantity acquisition unit.

Provided is an imaging device including a pixel array including pixels; a readout circuit that reads out signals from the pixels; a temperature sensor that outputs a signal in accordance with a temperature; and a current control circuit that controls a current supplied to the temperature sensor. The current control circuit performs control in a first period such that a predetermined current is supplied to the temperature sensor, and performs control in a second period such that a current supplied to the temperature sensor becomes smaller than the predetermined current or stops. The first period is set in a first blanking period between a process in which the first readout circuit reads out one frame of signals output from the pixels and a process in which the first readout circuit reads out next one frame of signals output from the pixels.