An information processing apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry displays a help screen including help content relating to a first function and information for receiving a setting relating to a second function, which is different from the first function. The circuitry updates a setting value of the second function in response to the received setting.

A method for configuring a raster image processor (RIP) for a digital printing system includes receiving a file for a print job; receiving or determining job characteristics of the print job or the file for the print job; receiving or determining hardware characteristics of hardware upon which the RIP is operating; inputting the job characteristics and the hardware characteristics into a trained artificial intelligence (AI) module; and selecting, using the trained AI module, a configuration or settings for the RIP for processing of the file based on the plurality of job characteristics and the plurality of hardware characteristics.

An electronic apparatus includes a display device, an operation device, and a control device. The control device acts as a controller. The controller causes the display device, when a character string inputted via the operation device contains a keyword and a first interrogative for questioning a method, to display procedure information indicating a procedure related to the setting item corresponding to the keyword. The controller causes the display device, when the character string contains the keyword and a second interrogative for questioning a location, to display location information indicating a location of a setup screen related to the setting item corresponding to the keyword. The controller causes the display device, when the character string contains the keyword and a third interrogative for questioning what a subject is, to display a current set value of the setting item corresponding to the keyword.

An image forming apparatus includes a display, a detector, and a controller. The display communicates a setting screen for setting a function of the image forming apparatus. The detector detects an operation of a user that the user executes on the setting screen. The controller is configured to communicate guidance regarding the setting screen based on the operation detected by the detector. For example, such guidance may be communicated when the number of operation times of the operation executed by the user on the setting screen exceeds a first threshold and the number of execution times of the function executed by the user previously is less than a second threshold.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect, via a reader, a memory when placed in close proximity to the reader or when spaced apart from the reader after being in close proximity to the reader; and at each timing when the memory is detected, perform display control such that a selection element, out of multiple selection elements displayed on a display, is in a selected display state.

An information processing apparatus includes a display device, an operation device, a storage device, and a control device. The storage device stores combinations of setting values set in respective jobs previously executed in relation to each of a plurality of functions. The control device allows the display device to display at least one of respective first images representing the functions in a first region of a display area, reads out the combination of setting values satisfying a predetermined condition from the storage device, allows the display device to display a second image showing the read combination of setting values in a second region of the display area, and, upon acceptance of a touch gesture on the second image through a touch panel of the operation device, executes, according to the combination of setting values shown by the second image, a job related to the function associated with the second image.

An information processing apparatus includes a display, a reception unit, and a display controller. The display is capable of displaying, as components displayed on a screen, plural screen display elements on the screen. The reception unit receives a collective deletion instruction as an instruction for collectively deleting the plural screen display elements displayed by the display. The display controller performs, in response to reception of the collective deletion instruction by the reception unit, in a case where the plural screen display elements for which the collective deletion instruction is issued satisfy a predetermined condition, control such that plural confirmation screens for confirming whether or not deletion is to be made, the plural confirmation screens including different information contents, are displayed on the display on a step-by-step basis.

An information processing system includes: an image display section that includes a screen on which an image is displayed; a reception image display unit that is able to display plural reception images for respectively receiving an instruction for execution of a predetermined process on the screen; and a process execution unit that executes, in a case where an operation with respect to a first reception image among the plural reception images is received from a user, the process with respect to a second reception image that is associated with the first reception image among the plural reception images and is not displayed on the screen on which the first reception image is displayed.

An image processing apparatus that is capable of preventing an additional image from being arranged at a position that overruns from a displayed base image when a user carelessly designates such a position. The image processing apparatus including an instruction unit that instructs a composition position by a user's operation at which an additional image selected by a user is combined with a base image displayed on a display, and a controller that controls so as to combine the additional image with the base image at a composition position instructed by the instruction unit. When the composition position where at least a part of the additional image overruns from the base image is instructed by the instruction unit, the controller changes the composition position so that the additional image will fit into the base image and combines the additional image at the changed composition position.

After storing information of a device selected in a device selection operation as a device to execute a function indicated by a menu item selected in a first menu selection operation, a second menu selection operation is accepted. In a case where a function indicated by a menu item selected in the second menu selection operation is different from the function indicated by the menu item selected in the first menu selection operation, an instruction screen is displayed. The instruction screen includes: an image configured to accept an instruction operation to instruct execution of the function selected by the second menu selection operation; and information of a device candidate to execute the function indicated by the menu item selected by the second menu selection operation, the information of the device candidate including the information of the device selected in the device selection operation.