An output product producing method includes acquiring output information, specifying an output condition for an output section, converting the output information into a code having an error-correction amount corresponding to the output condition, and causing the output section to output an output product including the code under the output condition.

An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor; a supplier that supplies a sheet; an image former; and a sensor that senses an operation of opening and/or closing a paper cassette containing the sheet. An image is formed in any mode between an automatic sensing mode in which the sheet type is discriminated by the hardware processor, and a type specifying mode in which the sheet type is accepted by the hardware processor. In a case in which it is judged that the mode is switched, the hardware processor automatically switches the mode when the image former forms the image. In a case in which the type specifying mode is set, the hardware processor judges, based on sensing of at least one of the operation of opening and/or the operation of closing by the sensor, whether to switch the mode to the automatic sensing mode.

Provided are a controller, a color chart and a non-transitory recording medium. The color chart includes a first patch that is a halftone patch of first color, a second patch that is the halftone patch of the first color underlaid with a solid base of second color, and comparative patches prepared by increasing and decreasing the tone of the first color of the first patch and second patch, where the printed surface of the color chart is finished with transparent material. The controller calculates tone values or dot gains of the first patch and second patch based on the measured color values of the patches in the color chart, and determines the current condition of print and the current condition of a finished surface by using a comparison result of the tone values or dot gains of the first patch and second patch with respective reference values.

An image forming system includes an image forming device configured to form an image on a recording medium, a reading device configured to read the image formed on the recording medium by the image forming device, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control the reading device; calculate a density of each predetermined unit area of the read image; determine whether the read image includes a region satisfying a predetermined density condition based on the calculated density; and output an image of a first region of the read image not satisfying the predetermined density condition, an image of a second region satisfying the predetermined density condition, and a visual representation associated with the second region in response to a determination that the read image includes the second region.

An information processing apparatus includes a use determination processing portion, a first acquisition processing portion, and a time notification processing portion. The use determination processing portion determines whether or not its associated information processing apparatus is in use. The first acquisition processing portion, when a use request of its associated information processing apparatus is received in a state where the use determination processing portion has determined that its associated information processing apparatus is in use, acquires a planned use time of its associated information processing apparatus via an input operation performed on an operation portion of its associated information processing apparatus. The time notification processing portion notifies a first information processing apparatus that is a transmission source of the use request, of the planned use time acquired by the first acquisition processing portion.

Disclosed are a self-driving multifunction copier capable of performing artificial intelligence learning through machine learning, a server controlling the self-driving multifunction copier, and a method for operating the server. A method for operating a server controlling a self-driving multifunction copier in an Internet of things (IoT) environment constructed through a 5G communication network, which is a method for operating a server controlling a self-driving multifunction copier, includes: in response to receiving an execution request for a job from a user terminal in a building, calculating a processing time of the job; selecting one self-driving multifunction copier among a plurality of self-driving multifunction copiers in the building based on the processing time of the job; and assigning the job to the selected self-driving multifunction copier to allow the selected self-driving multifunction copier to perform the assigned job.

Anon-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor of an information processing device. The instructions support a general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing device. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to obtain, from a printer, main body information about sheet characteristics for each feed tray of the printer, obtain print settings from the general-purpose printing program, generate, based on the main body information, notification data including sheet information indicating the sheet characteristics for a feed tray set in the print settings, and provide the notification data to the general-purpose printing program, thereby enabling the notification data to be displayed on the print setting screen.

According to a multifunction peripheral according to the present disclosure, when a DC mixing detection circuit detects that electric source power contains DC power, a DC detection signal Sdc is output from the DC mixing detection circuit. This DC detection signal Sdc is input to a solenoid of a shutoff mechanism. In response, the solenoid turns off a mechanical switch via a movable member. In addition, the DC detection signal Sdc is input to a CPU. In response, the CPU displays an error message on a display and outputs a warning sound from a speaker.

An electronic device includes an imaging unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The imaging unit acquires a distinction image, visualized from setup information including a set value set by a user, with respect to a parameter for picture quality adjustment to be performed by an image forming apparatus. The control unit includes a processor, and recognizes, when the processor executes a control program, the setup information on a basis of the distinction image acquired by the imaging unit, and causes the display unit to display a first image formed by subjecting a sample image to the picture quality adjustment, according to the set value included in the setup information, and a second image formed by subjecting the sample image to the picture quality adjustment, according to a set value different from the set value included in the setup information.

Method for acquiring local gonio-reflection characteristics of an image which is aggregation of dots. Sensory glossiness (L) of the image determined by equation (1) is 1.0 or more. The sensory glossiness (L) is determined based on a height of a peak (H), a height of a base (B) and a half width of a peak (W) of a distribution information of lightness with respect to light receiving angle, obtained by measuring reflected light of a measuring light irradiated into the image. The local gonio-reflection characteristics is acquired with a spatial resolution (A) for acquiring the local gonio-reflection characteristics and a resolution (B) which represents a distribution information of the dots within a region where the sensory glossiness (L) being 1.0 or more, satisfying formula (2).
L=Log((H?B)/W)Equation (1)
0.8<A/B<10Formula (2)