A device and method for use with an image recording device. The device having a background target and a first surface including the background target recessed therein. The device further including a substrate stabilizer configured to move a substrate having an image printed therein in closer proximity to the background target and below the first surface when activated.

An image-reading device is provided that includes a reading component configured to read a document, a document holding portion, a detector detecting a position of the document holding portion, a power supply device that supplies power to the reading component, and a power supply control device that controls power supplied by the power supply device to the reading component. The power supply control device determines whether a change in the position of the document holding portion has occurred based on the position of the document holding portion detected by the detector. When a change in position is detected and the image reading device is not performing document reading, the power supplied to the reading component is reduced. If a change in position is detected while the image reading device is performing document reading, the power supplied to the reading component is maintained.

There is described a method of checking producibility of a composite security design of a security document, in particular of a composite banknote design, on a line of production equipment, the composite security design being the product of a combination of multiple sets of design features that are to be provided on a substrate as a result of a plurality of successive production operations carried out by means of the line of production equipment. The method comprises the steps of (a) providing digital design data representative of the composite security design of the security document, (b) modelizing, in a computer environment, the line of production equipment by means of which the composite security design is intended to be produced, (c) performing a computer simulation of production results of the plurality of successive production operations on the basis of the digital design data and the modelized line of production equipment, and (d) evaluating the computer simulated production results and determining, on the basis of these computer simulated production results, whether the composite security design can be produced on the line of production equipment.

There is provided with an information processing apparatus. A first obtaining unit obtains data of a reference image indicating a target of printing output to be performed by a printing apparatus. A second obtaining unit obtains data of an image printed by the printing apparatus. A correcting unit corrects a local image density difference or the reference image based on a global image density difference between the reference image and the printed image. An evaluating unit evaluates quality of the printed image based on the local image density difference between the corrected reference image and the printed image.

A method to determine an operating status of an image forming device comprises: monitoring a plurality of operating parameters of the image forming device during a first time interval; calculating a correlation coefficient during a second time interval between at least two of the plurality of operating parameters; identifying the image forming device as an abnormal operating status when the correlation coefficient calculated during the second time interval is a positive correlation coefficient above a predetermined level associated with a model of the image forming device; and determining a maintenance action for the image forming device based on the abnormal operating status.

Facsimile reception is prohibited when an operation mode in which a service person performs printing for the purpose of maintenance is set.

The present disclosure pertains to an image reading device that may include an image reader, an operation detector, a correction parameter adjuster, an entry detector, and a document reading controller. The image reader may read an image on a document. The operation detector may detect an operation indicating a start of a reading of the image on the document. The correction parameter adjuster may perform adjustment of a correction parameter. The entry detector may detect entry of a document reading instruction including a reading condition. The document reading controller may check for completion of the adjustment of the correction parameter for the reading condition. If the adjustment of the correction parameter is not completed, the document reading controller may instruct the correction parameter adjuster to perform adjustment of an uncompleted correction parameter and instruct the image reader to read the image.

A controller for a printing device includes print mode controller to determine whether a first or second print mode is to be used for a print job, and temperature controller to control a printhead temperature at least one of prior to and during printing the print job, the temperature controller to activate a printhead heater to cause the printhead temperature to be raised to a first temperature if the print mode controller determines that the first print mode is to be used, and the temperature controller to activate the printhead heater to cause the printhead temperature to be raised to a second temperature if the print mode controller determines that the second print mode is to be used, the second temperature different from the first temperature.

An image reading apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image reading unit that generates reference data by reading a reference surface and generates image data by reading a sheet. A reference plate includes the reference surface for generating the reference data for shading correction of the image reading unit and a background surface for background of a sheet to be read to generate the image data. A control unit controls the positions of the image reading unit and the reference plate to be at a first position relative to each other when the reference data is to be generated and at a second position relative to each other when the image data is to be generated. The second position is different from the first position. A shading correction unit performs the shading correction in the image reading unit based on the generated reference data.

An information processing apparatus includes a determining unit that determines an information processing apparatus state realized while a bypass operation to bypass a particular fault is not being performed and a changing unit that changes, when it is no longer necessary to perform the bypass operation while the bypass operation is being performed, a current information processing apparatus state to the information processing apparatus state that is determined by the determining unit and that is realized while the bypass operation is not being performed.