An image processing system comprises: a reading unit configured to optically read a printed material, on which drawing information of an original image is multiplexed, to acquire read image data; an extraction unit configured to extract the drawing information from the read image data acquired by the reading unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire original image data representing the original image based on the drawing information extracted by the extraction unit; a correction unit configured to compare the read image data with the original image data, and correct the original image data based on a result of the comparison; and a saving unit configured to save, as a result of reading the printed material, the corrected original image data corrected by the correction unit.

An image forming system for forming an image includes a storage unit that stores a log of the image forming system, and a controller to detect an abnormality of the image forming system based on the content of the log stored in the storage unit, and the controller controls to execute a recovery process of the image forming system according to a detection result of the abnormality. In this configuration, the image forming system detects complicated abnormality that occurs according to series of flows.

An inspection device includes a processor configured to display at least one of plural pieces of read image data on a display unit in a state where a defective portion is recognizable, and set reception of a correction instruction of the defective portion to be enabled, the plural pieces of read image data being obtained by reading image-formed matters obtained by forming original image data on plural recording media, and correct read image data that does not satisfy a predetermined criterion, and then register the corrected read image data as reference image data used for inspecting the image-formed matter.

Conveyance modes include a registration mode accompanied with skew correction and a registrationless mode unaccompanied with skew correction. When a jam occurs, the controller interrupts a job, and invokes blank-feed processing starting from a state with all sheets re-set. On invoking blank-feed processing, the controller checks the conveyance mode and recognizes the number of jams. If the conveyance mode is the registration mode and in addition the number of jams has not reached a threshold number of jams, the controller invokes blank-feed processing in the registrationless mode.

An image forming apparatus includes a member having a certain function, a learned model, and an estimation unit. The learned model is obtained by learning of a self-organizing map model having an input layer and an output layer. The estimation unit gives multidimensional input data related to the member to the input layer, and estimates a state of the member on the basis of one of a plurality of nodes of the output layer.

An information processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus in response to completion of a specific software activation process in the controller, transmits an activation completion notification to the operation device and the operation device in response to receiving the activation completion notification, updates a timeout period of a timer started after activation of software of the operation device to a shorter period of time and restart the timer, and in a case data communication is not established on the communication path within the updated timeout period, detects a malfunction and notifies the controller of the malfunction, and the controller performs a recovery process.

A recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a scanning unit configured to perform relative scanning by moving the recording unit and a recording medium relative to each other at least once with respect to a unit region on the recording medium, a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery operation for maintaining or recovering a recording performance of the recording unit for application of a recording material, and a control unit configured to control the recovery unit, wherein the control unit acquires recording mode information about recording of an image to be performed on a recording medium for (n+1)-th page (n being a natural number) and determines, based on the acquired recording mode information, whether to perform an inter-page recovery operation at timing after recording of an image on a recording medium for n-th page ends and before recording of an image on a recording medium for (n+1)-th page starts.

Various methods and systems for a printer having verifiers are disclosed herein. Such methods provide for voiding a printed media in a batch printing run. The methods further correspond to identifying the printed media that is printed as part of the batch printing run as a failed media in an instance an assigned grade fails to satisfy a predetermined threshold, marking the printed media as a failed printed media, determining whether the batch print run is in sequential mode or non-sequential mode, marking the one or more subsequently printed media as additional failed printed media, and reprinting the failed media in sequence after one or more subsequently printed media before continuing the batch printing run if the batch print run is in sequential mode.

An information processing device includes a processor holding restoration information that associates (i) defects predicted to occur in an inspection image read from a recording medium, (ii) a restoration operation for preventing each of the defects from occurring, and (iii) an executing device that executes the restoration operation, with one another. The processor extracts, from the restoration information, the restoration operation associated with one of the defects designated on a display screen displaying the inspection image read from the recording medium, and instructs the executing device to execute the extracted restoration operation.

An image forming device includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a transfer medium; and a controller that controls multiple image readers capable of performing image reading for the same surface of the transfer medium, and acquires reading results from the image readers. The controller is capable of performing failure/no-failure determination for the image on the transfer medium based on the reading results, of switching image reading by the multiple image readers between reading by a first number of image readers and reading by a second number of image readers, the second number being smaller than the first number, and of enabling, while the second number of image readers perform reading, at least one of the other image readers to execute a maintenance operation for the at least one of the other image readers.