An image forming apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first printable amount corresponding to an upper limit on printing according to the first printing mode and a second printable amount corresponding to an upper limit on printing according to the second printing mode; a changing unit configured to, in a case where an amount to be printed by a job designating printing according to the first printing mode being executed exceeds the first printable amount, under a condition that the second printable amount would not be exceeded, change the printing according to the first printing mode designated by the job to printing according to the second printing mode; and an execution unit configured to execute the job after the change by the changing unit to printing according to the second printing mode.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions executable by a controller of an information processing apparatus. The instructions cause the controller to perform operations. The operations include: displaying an edit screen, the edit screen being configured to receive a translation instruction, the edit screen including a text area and a print area, the print area being configured to place therein a target text string to be printed; upon receiving on the edit screen an operation for inputting the target text string, displaying the target text string in a first language in the text area; upon receiving on the edit screen the translation instruction for translating the target text string displayed in the text area from the first language into a second language, translating the target text string to obtain a translation data piece representing a translated text string in the second language.

An information processing apparatus includes a first printer driver configured to generate first print data to be transmitted to an image forming apparatus according to a predetermined protocol and a second printer driver configured to generate second print data to be transmitted to a server system according to the predetermined protocol. The information processing apparatus further includes a display unit configured to display a first screen in a case where first information for transmitting the first print data is selected, and to display a second screen in a case where second information for transmitting the second print data is selected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the first print data or the second print data.

Information apparatus and application software supporting printing over air or network are herein disclosed and enabled. The information apparatus may include one or more software components that include (1) a discovery component to discover a supported printer in a local area network (LAN) and to receive device information related to the printer (e.g., capability, language or format supported, identification) from the printer, and (2) a printing component to generate or obtain print data based on the device information received and to transmit the print data to the discovered printer. After establishing the connection to the LAN, application software (e.g., Internet browser, email, photos, documents) in the information apparatus may print digital content by using the discovery component to discover the printer in the LAN, and may use the printing component to obtain and transmit print data in a form that is acceptable to the printer for printing the digital content.

An image forming system executes determination processing with an intensity of an image editing process being a first intensity and a determination threshold being a first value and does not execute the determination processing with the intensity of the image editing process being the first intensity and the determination threshold being a second value. The system executes the determination processing with the intensity of the image editing process being a second intensity greater than the first intensity and the determination threshold being the first value and does not execute the determination processing with the intensity of the image editing process being the second intensity and the determination threshold being the second value.

A method of operating an image forming apparatus includes receiving a request to perform an image forming operation, performing a calibration operation based on obtained urgency level information in response to the request, when a condition to perform a calibration is determined to be satisfied, the urgency level indicating a level of urgency to perform the image forming operation and the calibration is to standardize standardizing color representation of the image to be formed, and performing the image forming operation after the calibration operation is performed.

A printing apparatus that receives user's instructions for a plurality of print settings and controls printing, includes a reception section that receives the user's instructions, and a control section that sets the print settings based on the instructions received by the reception section and controls the printing according to the set print settings, in which the control section solves a prohibition relationship between the print settings according to different solutions depending on a state of the printing apparatus.

The disclosure discloses methods and systems for allowing a user to reserve a tray for special media printing while submitting a document for printing, the method is implemented at a print driver application running on a computing device. The method includes receiving a print request for the document through the print driver application. A user interface is provided to the user including one or more print attributes, wherein at least one print attribute includes special media option. Upon selection of the special media option, a list of one or more trays available at at least one multi-function device for special media printing is displayed. Thereafter, the user is allowed to select a tray from the displayed tray list for reservation for special media printing at the at least one multi-function device.

A printing apparatus comprises: a print portion configured to perform printing on a print medium drawn from a rolled medium; and a print controller configured to cause the print portion to print status information in response to an instruction to print the status information. The print controller is configured to cause the print portion to print first status information, which is part of the status information, cause the print portion to print at least one of selection items corresponding to pieces of status information, and cause, when at least one printed selection item is selected, the print portion to print second status information corresponding to the selected selection item.

Systems and methods are provided for handling print data. One embodiment is a system that includes an interface that receives rasterized print data, a memory that stores the rasterized print data; and a print controller that compresses each scanline of the rasterized print data by culling a region of leading whitespace, culling a region of trailing whitespace, compressing a data region disposed between the leading whitespace and the trailing whitespace, and inserting a tag having whitespace offset information for the data region within the scanline.