An information processing apparatus including a storage device obtains an energized time to the storage device in a standby state where no job is being executed and a number of accesses to the storage device during the standby state. The information processing apparatus provides a display relating to a lifetime of the storage device based on the energized time and the number of accesses to the storage device.

An information processing apparatus includes a memory to store information of a display status of setting item buttons used for selecting corresponding setting items on a screen, and information of at least one of the setting items corresponding to an error that occurs during information processing as an error-occurred setting item, and circuitry to detect occurrence of the error during the information processing, determine whether a setting item button corresponding to the error-occurred setting item is displayed or not on the screen when the occurrence of the error is detected during the information processing, and display the setting item button corresponding to the error-occurred setting item on the screen based on a determination that the setting item button corresponding to the error-occurred setting item is not displayed on the screen when the occurrence of the error is detected during the information processing.

A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.

There is provided an image reading apparatus including: a reading unit that reads a document; a document setting unit that sets the document to be fed toward the reading unit; and a binding member detector that detects a binding member binding the document and is provided in an outside of the document setting unit. The binding member detector is provided on a side surface of a housing constituting an outside of the image reading apparatus. The binding member detector includes a first portion and a second portion disposed to face the first portion and is configured to detect the binding member by passing the document through between the first portion and the second portion.

Provide is an image forming system and a control program capable of preventing a setting error of an output mode by a user when newly generating a correct image. An image forming system includes an image forming unit, an image reading unit, a reference image acquiring unit, and a control unit. The image reading unit reads the image on the sheet formed by the image forming unit. The reference image acquiring unit acquires a reference image as a reference for determining whether the image of the print job formed on the sheet is normal. The control unit prohibits forming of a plurality of copies of the image of the print job by the image forming unit when the reference image acquiring unit newly generates and acquires a reference image by reading the image formed on the sheet by the image forming unit using the image reading unit.

A malfunction determining apparatus for determining a malfunction of a target apparatus includes a receiver that receives, from a target apparatus, a plurality of items of physical data having frequency bands that are different from each other and circuitry that analyzes the received physical data to identify, for each of the operating modes, at least one of the physical data items having a specific feature from among the plurality of items of physical data that are received from the target apparatus, stores in a memory, for each of the operating modes, information indicating at least one sensor of the multiple sensors that has output the at least one of the physical data item that is identified, and determines abnormality of the target apparatus operating in a specific operating mode, using only the physical data output from the at least one sensor stored in the memory for the specific operating mode.

An image forming apparatus manages restart setting information that defines settings related to restarting of remote connection with a computer, controls remote connection, and changes the restart setting information according to an instruction. When remote connection is terminated as a result of a function that terminates remote connection being executed, if the restart setting information includes a setting for automatically restarting remote connection, remote connection is automatically restarted and, if the restart setting information includes a setting for not automatically restarting remote connection, remote connection is not automatically restarted.

A preview screen includes a message indicating that double feeding of documents (i.e., sheets) has been detected, and image data corresponding to one or more read documents if the double feeding of documents is detected, and further provides a countermeasure method to the double feeding of documents in the preview screen.

A printer for use in an image forming system including a local area network (LAN) interface for communicating with a server, a printer engine, and an operation unit includes a control unit including a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory such as a random access memory (RAM), and the control unit is capable of performing processing to store a server printing setting flag and notification processing to perform notification to prompt a user to give a setting instruction if an internal time is detected to be initialized and the server printing setting flag is stored.

An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an image of a reference member, calculating a dirt degree at an imaging position by comparing a gradient value of a pixel with a gradient value of peripheral pixels of the pixel or comparing the gradient value of the pixel with a reference value, with regard to a pixel included in the acquired image of the reference member, and generating when the dirt degree is equal to or more than a first threshold. When the dirt degree is less than the first threshold and equal to or more than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold, the processor generates the warning only when a scan count exceeds a scan count threshold, and when the dirt degree is less than the second threshold, the processor does not generate the warning.