An image processing apparatus includes an scanner, a print engine, and a controller configured to control the scanner to scan images of one or more document sheets, thereby generating scanned image data, generate print data based on the scanned image data, control the print engine to print, on sheets, the images based on the print data, generate first log image data through reducing a data size of image data associated with the scanned image data, determine whether the first log image data includes a particular type of page, and when determining that the first log image data includes the particular type of page, generate second log image data having higher image quality than the first log image data.

A control device for an image forming apparatus includes: a first transfer unit configured to read log data from a first memory and write the log data into a second memory; and a second transfer unit configured to read the log data from the second memory and transfer the log data outside the control device. The first memory is a volatile storage device and configured to store the log data acquired by a processor. The second memory is a volatile storage device. The first transfer unit, the second transfer unit, and the second memory are reset by a second reset unit other than a first reset unit configured to reset the processor and the first memory.

An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to form an image, transmit the image to a server that generates a processed image of the image by executing a designated image process on the image and is on an outside of a firewall, and, in a case where the image includes designation information designating the processed image to be transmitted to an instructed transmission destination via a fax line, request an alternative apparatus to fax-transmit the processed image to the transmission destination, the alternative apparatus being on an inside of the firewall together and having a fax function.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller that executes a job using a destination, and a storage that stores a setting value of the job, as history information. The controller applies the setting value to execution of the job, when the history information of the job in which a destination acquired from a terminal device is a transmission destination is stored in the storage.

A device includes a device control unit that controls the device to execute a process based on setting information received via a first interface for accepting a process execution request, and an application unit that displays a first screen for accepting a specific setting relating to the process from a user and sends to the device control unit, via the first interface, the setting information that is based on the specific setting accepted via the first screen. The application unit accepts from an application program installed in the device, via a second interface, a display request for displaying the first screen, and sends information indicating the specific setting accepted via the first screen to the application program as a response to the display request. The information indicating the specific setting sent to the application program has the same configuration as the setting information sent to the device control unit.

Systems for providing on-demand food service material printing for food service are provided herein. A food service material dispenser comprises a roll holder configured to hold a roll of food service material, one or more rollers, and a motor configured to operate to translate the food service material along a path within the dispenser. The dispenser includes a cutting arrangement configured to perform a cut of the food service material to form the sheet of food service material that defines a size associated with a food service order. The dispenser also includes a printer configured to print at least one of order information or personalization information on the food service material that is based on the associated food service order. The dispenser further includes a chute configured to dispense the sheet of food service material, which includes the at least one of order information or personalization information printed thereon.

An image forming apparatus includes plural internal devices, a controller, and a communication path. The controller is configured to control the plural internal devices. The communication path is used for communication between the plural internal devices and the controller. Usage priority of the communication path is assigned to plural pieces of communication between the plural internal devices and the controller in a time divisional manner. The controller detects a status change of the image forming apparatus, and upon detecting the status change, interrupts the time divisional manner with a time slot of a specific internal device among the plural internal devices, the specific internal device corresponding to the status change.

A data communication method includes the steps of receiving from an application a request instruction including first print setting information retained by the application and a demand for prescribed processing concerning a print setting, transmitting an instruction to an information generation component provided by an operating system to generate second print setting information from the received first print setting information where the second print setting information is formed in a data structure processible in the printer driver, receiving the second print setting information generated in response to the instruction, executing the prescribed processing based on the received second print setting information, and returning a result of the prescribed processing to the application.

A portable terminal includes a user interface, a memory, a network interface, and a controller, and performs operations including: performing a first acquiring processing of acquiring a data identification information; performing a second acquiring processing of acquiring operation information representing output operations, performing a first output instructing processing of transmitting output instructing information to a output device via the network interface, the output instructing information being information for outputting a content data identified by the data identification information by a target operation; and performing, when it is determined that the operation identification information represents one output operation, a second output instructing processing of transmitting the output instructing information to the output device via the network interface, wherein the target operation of the second output instructing processing is the output operation represented by the operation information.

An image reading device includes a turning unit and a reading unit having a reader. The reader reads an image on a sheet. The turning unit can turn with respect to the reading unit. The turning unit includes a communication unit and a storage portion. The communication unit receives data from outside the image reading device by wirelessly communication and includes a communication main unit detachably mounted within the turning unit and a communication cable that transfers data received by the communication main unit. The storage portion stores the communication cable.