An image forming apparatus that forms an image on paper in accordance with a printing job includes: a communication unit that receives meeting information concerning a meeting; a storage unit that stores the meeting information received by the communication unit; an editing control unit that edits the meeting information stored in the storage unit in accordance with an execution time of the printing job; an operation display unit that freely outputs images or voices captured in the meeting based on the meeting information edited by the editing control unit; and an output control unit that controls output of the images or voices captured in the meeting and output from the operation display unit, wherein the output control unit finishes output of the images or voices captured in the meeting and output from the operation display unit before completion of the printing job.

An image forming apparatus that facilitates management of information security policy even for an extended application installed from exterior. A scanning unit scans an original to generate image data of the original. A printing unit prints an image based on image data. A management unit manages applications dynamically installed. At least one of the applications executes a job using at least one of the scanning unit and the printing unit. A setting unit sets an operation mode for the image forming apparatus, based on security settings that are received from an external apparatus. A determination unit determines whether each of the applications supports the security settings. A control unit restricts an operation of an application that the determination unit determines that the application does not support the security settings.

An information processing apparatus configured to authenticate a user in first authentication processing and second authentication processing and permit the user who is authenticated to use at least one of a plurality of functions includes a control unit configured to, at a time of authentication of the user in the first authentication processing, perform control to prompt the user to select an authentication method to be used in the first authentication processing.

An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a request from an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the image processing apparatus via a network, a determination unit configured to, based on authority information about user's authority included in the request received by the receiving unit and setting item information for identifying a setting item included in the request, determine whether a user has a write authority on the setting item, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the user has the write authority on the setting item, control whether to permit a change of a setting value of the setting item, based on a setting value of security policy information associated with the setting item.

An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit that reads data stored in an activity amount meter, at least one of an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium and an image reading unit that reads the image, a display unit that displays an option to be selected such that the display unit receives a use instruction of a function that is selected, and a sending unit that sends the data stored in the activity amount meter and read by the reading unit. The display unit receives the use instruction even when the sending unit is sending the data stored in the activity amount meter and read by the reading unit.

A function identification information acquisition circuit acquires function identification information for identifying a particular function from one or more electronic apparatuses executing a plurality of functions, the function identification information being associated with one of apparatus identification information for identifying the one or more electronic apparatuses and user identification information for identifying one or more users registered in the one or more electronic apparatuses. An important function selection circuit selects a function with high importance from the plurality of functions based on the acquired function identification information. An important function identification information supply circuit supplies important function identification information to one of an electronic apparatus identified by the apparatus identification information that is not associated with the important function identification information and an electronic apparatus in which user identification information that is not associated with the important function identification information is registered.

A system and method for maintaining safe social distancing during device operation comprises a multifunction peripheral configured to scan or print a tangible document. A camera captures electronic images of two or more people proximate to the multifunction peripheral. A processor determines a relative distance between the people in accordance with captured electronic images and generates an alarm when a determined relative distance is less than a predetermined alarm threshold distance. The processor disables operation of the multifunction peripheral when the determined relative distance is less than the predetermined alarm threshold distance.

An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a printing device, a specific character string detector, and a controller. The specific character string detector extracts a specific area image, enlarges the specific area image, executes character recognition processing on the enlarged specific area image to detect a character string, and determines whether or not the detected character string includes a predetermined specific character string. The controller prohibits copying of the document image when the predetermined specific character string is included in the detected character string. The size of the specific character string before enlargement is smaller than a lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing, and the size of the specific character string after enlargement is equal to or larger than the lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing.

An image processing device includes a controller, a device information generator that generates device information including identification information of the image processing device, and a job executor that executes a job at a predetermined setting based on setting information for job execution sent from a terminal device, wherein the controller displays the generated device information on the terminal device and, based on the setting information for job execution sent from the terminal device that read the displayed device information, controls the job executor to output the job at the predetermined setting.

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.