A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

A hardware processor of an image forming apparatus is able to obtain saving target information from a time of a power-off operation to a time of power supply interruption and to save the saving target information, in a nonvolatile storage of the image forming apparatus, as first snapshot data (for restoring a state at a predetermined time after firmware is activated). When a power-on operation is performed after the time of the power-off operation, the hardware processor determines whether to perform a first high-speed startup process using the first snapshot data as an apparatus startup process with respect to the image forming apparatus. When a determination is made to perform the first high-speed startup process, the hardware processor causes the display of the image forming apparatus to display, in a period in which a hardware initialization process in response to the power-on operation is being performed or immediately after the hardware initialization process is completed, an advance notice screen to be displayed before completion of startup in response to the power-on operation, the advance notice screen giving an advance notice that a transition to a user operable state following the power-on operation will be completed.

A remote maintenance system capable of reducing user's time and effort required to establish communication between an image processing apparatus and an operator terminal. An operator terminal performs remote maintenance communication with an image processing apparatus via a relay server, for performing a maintenance operation of the image processing apparatus. A connection request for connecting to an operator terminal is received from an image processing apparatus, and the remote maintenance communication between the image processing apparatus and the operator terminal is established based on the connection request. When the connection request is received, an operator terminal that has not established the remote maintenance communication is assigned to an image processing apparatus that has sent the connection request, and the remote maintenance communication between the image processing apparatus having sent the connection request and the assigned operator terminal is established.

A controller in a management system performs: in response to receiving a first request, transmitting first information to an image-processing apparatus, the transmitted first information being acquired by a terminal apparatus; receiving the first information acquired by the terminal apparatus and original image data stored in the terminal apparatus; storing the received original image data at a first storage location in the image data storage, the first storage location being specified by the received first information; receiving a second request; in response to receiving the second request, transmitting the second information to the image-processing apparatus; receiving the second information and a third request from the image-processing apparatus; and in response to receiving the third request; transmitting target image data based on the received original image data to the image-processing apparatus, the target image data being stored in the second storage location specified by the received second information.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: transmit information to a storage destination when received image data is transferred to the storage destination where the image data is stored, the information indicating a storage location corresponding to a person-in-charge responsible for processing the image data; and transmit a command to the storage destination if information allowing the image data transferred to the storage location to be distinguishable between unprocessed image data as image data that has not been processed and processed image data as image data that has been processed is acquired, the command indicating that at least one of the unprocessed image data and the processed image data is to be moved to a second storage location.

This invention relates to an information processing apparatus being able to execute first and second functions and set the processing conditions of each function by using a user interface, and a control method of the information processing apparatus. In a case that either of the first and second functions is selected, an application common to both the first and second functions is launched, and a user interface window generated based on common data corresponding to the application is displayed. The processing conditions of the selected function can be set from the user interface window.

A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

A controller in a management system performs: in response to receiving a first request, transmitting first information to an image-processing apparatus, the transmitted first information being acquired by a terminal apparatus; receiving the first information acquired by the terminal apparatus and original image data stored in the terminal apparatus; storing the received original image data at a first storage location in the image data storage, the first storage location being specified by the received first information; receiving a second request; in response to receiving the second request, transmitting the second information to the image-processing apparatus; receiving the second information and a third request from the image-processing apparatus; and in response to receiving the third request; transmitting target image data based on the received original image data to the image-processing apparatus, the target image data being stored in the second storage location specified by the received second information.

An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of processors, a communication unit, and a control unit. The plurality of processors forms a pipeline. The communication unit is configured to communicate data between the plurality of processors. The control unit is configured to assign a function to the plurality of processors. The control unit or the processors set a communication mode according to the function. The communication unit buffers the data in different buffer areas according to the communication mode, thereby communicating the data between the plurality of processors.

An object of the present invention is to control a Reprint function/Resend function so as not to confuse a user of an image processing device in a case where a job complete delete function is enabled. An image processing device having a reperform function to reperform an already-performed job and a delete function to delete data used in an already-performed job by overwriting the data used in the already-performed job by real data, the image processing device including a job security setting unit configured to set whether to enable the delete function, and in the case where the delete function is set to be enabled by the job security setting unit, the already-performed job is not reperformed by the reperform function.