An image forming apparatus has an office direct print function, and when a non-installed font that is not installed in the image forming apparatus is included in application data, a font substitution guidance screen is displayed on a display. A drop-down list that is an operator for selecting a substitute font is provided in the font substitution guidance screen, whereby a user can arbitrarily select a substitute font. The font substitution guidance screen displays also a sample character group having a typeface according to the selected substitute font.

A printing system includes a printing unit, a position determiner that randomly determines a position where a first information code is to be set, a modifier that modifies print data for printing an image, the first information code, and a positional information code having recorded therein positional information at the time of printing that indicates the position determined by the position determiner so that the first information code is set at the position determined by the position determiner, an acquirer that acquires the position of the first information code on a print medium as positional information and acquires the positional information at the time of the printing from the positional information code, and a determiner that determines whether the printing result is a falsified matter based on comparison of the positional information after the printing with the positional information at the time of the printing.

A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes an interpreter module to generate Tagged Object Bit-plane data corresponding to drawing objects for each colorant of a device color space during rasterization a print job data and a common buffer to store the Tagged Object Bit-plane data for each colorant.

An image processing system for executing a plurality of processes includes a process execution control apparatus, and image generation-output control apparatuses of different types. The process execution control apparatus includes a process execution controller to control the processes, and to transmit a command information to the image generation-output control apparatuses. Each of the image generation-output control apparatuses includes a command information converter to convert the command information to a format processable by the image generation-output control apparatus, an imposition convertor to convert initial designation information to imposition process information processable by the image generation-output control apparatus, and an image drawing information generator to generate image drawing information.

The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for printing an article, the apparatus (100) comprising: a data providing device (10) adapted to provide article-specific printing data for the article from product data of the article, and to provide machine-specific printing data for the article in dependence on a printing machine to be used for the printing process; and a control device (20) adapted to merge the article-specific printing data and the machine-specific printing data, and to control the printing machine for printing the article based thereon.

A printing system includes a printing unit, a position determiner that randomly determines a position where a first information code is to be set, a modifier that modifies print data for printing an image, the first information code, and a positional information code having recorded therein positional information at the time of printing that indicates the position determined by the position determiner so that the first information code is set at the position determined by the position determiner, an acquirer that acquires the position of the first information code on a print medium as positional information and acquires the positional information at the time of the printing from the positional information code, and a determiner that determines whether the printing result is a falsified matter based on comparison of the positional information after the printing with the positional information at the time of the printing.

An image forming apparatus has an office direct print function, and when a non-installed font that is not installed in the image forming apparatus is included in application data, a font substitution guidance screen is displayed on a display. A drop-down list that is an operator for selecting a substitute font is provided in the font substitution guidance screen, whereby a user can arbitrarily select a substitute font. The font substitution guidance screen displays also a sample character group having a typeface according to the selected substitute font.

There is provided a printer including: a storage that stores transmission discrimination format information and information specification format information; a printing executor that performs printing based on print data received from a POS terminal; and a controller that transmits print text data, in which information adapted to information specification format indicated by information specification format information among information included in the print text data is converted or deleted, to a control server when a format of the print text data based on the print data received from the POS terminal is adapted to a transmission discrimination format indicated by the transmission discrimination format information.

An image forming apparatus includes a controller circuit configured to execute an information processing program to operate as a rendering module, the rendering module being configured to determine whether or not a specified font is included in the list, the specified font being a font specified by the font specifying information, if determining that the specified font is not included in the list, select an alternative font from the list, the alternative font being one of the one or more fonts, render a character specified by the character code included in the printable data by using alternative font data, the alternative font data being font data of the alternative font, and render alternative font rendering information, the alternative font rendering information being information indicating that rendering is executed by using the alternative font data.

There is provided a printer including: a storage that stores transmission discrimination format information and information specification format information; a printing executor that performs printing based on print data received from a POS terminal; and a controller that transmits print text data, in which information adapted to information specification format indicated by information specification format information among information included in the print text data is converted or deleted, to a control server when a format of the print text data based on the print data received from the POS terminal is adapted to a transmission discrimination format indicated by the transmission discrimination format information.