An output method and an output device include steps below. A first electronic device sends a file to a server and generates a piece of verification information corresponding to the file. A second electronic device receives the piece of verification information. An output device reads the piece of verification information, and obtains the file from the server according to the piece of verification information. The output device receives a first verification code via a user interface, determines whether the first verification code matches the piece of verification information, and outputs the paper document of the file when the first verification code matches the piece of verification information. The output device sends a second verification code, generated according to encode data of the file, to the second electronic device for a further verification and deletes the file after the output device output the paper document of the file.

Embodiments disclosed include systems and methods for computer automated print services control comprising authenticating a user credential input via a user device. The system and method includes generating, by a printer driver comprised in the user device, a user interface comprising features supported by a plurality of printing devices. Further, it includes receiving via the user device over the network, a print instruction comprising the features supported by the plurality of printing devices connected to the computer system over the network. And based on the print instruction, generating a print job in an embodiment. Further, based on the user authentication at one of the plurality of printing devices, converting via a gateway, the received print instruction into a format compatible with that printing device and releasing the generated print job for printing at that printing device, according to an embodiment.

According to examples, content management may include receiving, at an on-premise location and from a cloud environment, instructions to perform an operation on content. The instructions may be previously received at the cloud environment and further evaluated at the cloud environment to determine, based on a plurality of policies associated with the instructions, whether to perform the operation using a cloud-based resource or whether to perform the operation using an on-premise resource that is at the on-premise location. In response to a determination, at the cloud environment, that the operation is to be performed using the on-premise resource, the instructions are forwarded from the cloud environment to the on-premise location. Further, content management may include performing, at the on-premise location and based on the received instructions, the operation on the content using the on-premise resource.

A method of providing mobile printing is provided. The method includes transmitting a device search message based on a predetermined protocol in a mobile terminal, transmitting, when a user device receives the device search message from the mobile terminal, a response message based on the predetermined protocol to the mobile terminal in response to the received device search message, transmitting, when information indicating a mobile printing function is included in a device category of the response message received from the user device, print data from the mobile terminal to the user device, transmitting the print data received from the user device to an image forming apparatus, and performing an image forming job for the received print data in the image forming apparatus.

A server and a method of operating the same are provided. The method includes receiving metadata corresponding to printing data from a printing data storage device that stores the printing data, receiving, from an image forming apparatus, a request to transmit printing job information, determining a transmission route of the printing data based on whether the printing data storage device and the image forming apparatus are capable of communicating with each other, generating printing job information including the metadata and the transmission route, and transmitting the printing job information to the image forming apparatus.

An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus coupled to a second information processing apparatus via a network. The first information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire first data including second data, a process information reader to read, when the first data satisfies a predetermined condition, process information in association with the predetermined condition from a storage, a transmitter to transmit, when the process information includes predetermined process information, third data to the second information processing apparatus, and an editor to edit the second data in accordance with the process information. The second information processing apparatus includes a second acquisition unit to acquire the third data from the first information processing apparatus, and a display unit to display on a display device indication that the second data are edited when the third data are acquired.

An image processing apparatus includes circuitry that receives a list of file identification information from an external apparatus that stores, for one or more files to be output, file identification information for identifying the file to be output connected to the image processing apparatus via a network, registers, in a memory, output information including file identification information of a first file at least one file of the one or more files that has been output, and based on a result of comparing the list of the file identification information that is received with the file identification information included in the output information, controls a display to display a screen for selecting a file to be output, the screen indicating at least one of the first file and a second file, the second file being at least one file of the one or more files that has not been output.

A multifunction peripheral system includes a server and a multifunction peripheral. The server is configured to access printing information from a first electronic device, and is further configured to generate printing verification information corresponding to the printing information. The multifunction peripheral has a communication connection with the server. The multifunction peripheral is configured to access a detectable identifier, which comprises information to be verified, from a second electronic device, and the multifunction peripheral further configured to ask the server the printing information according to the detectable identifier. When the information to be verified is identical to the printing verification information, the server provides the printing information to the multifunction peripheral.

An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a break of copies exists based on a content of a data area in print data for reservation printing and an updating unit that, in a case where the determination unit determines that the break of copies exists, updates an attribute value in the print data.

A service providing system is for providing a service that is in cooperation with a printing service that is provided by an external printing system. The service providing system includes a job obtaining unit configured, when receiving from the printing system a notification representing that a print job is created by the printing service, to obtain the print job from the printing system; a job managing unit configured to store, in a job storage unit, the print job obtained by the job obtaining unit; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job stored in the job storage unit in response to a print job request from an image forming apparatus that is coupled to the service providing system via a network.