A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

An information processing system, including an information processing apparatus communicable with a device, includes circuitry configured to receive, from the device, identification information identifying a service providable by the information processing apparatus, transmit, to the device, a process execution request to implement the service of activating an imaging function of the device, and causing the device to upload the image data captured by using the imaging function to the information processing apparatus, the service corresponding to the identification information, and store the image data captured using the imaging function in a memory.

An apparatus includes a forming unit, a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction, a reading unit configured to read an image based on the instruction, a memory configured to store a plurality of pieces of pixel data, a first output unit configured to output the plurality of pieces of pixel data at an output cycle, a data bus configured to transfer the pixel data, and a controller configured to operate a first process and a second process. The forming unit forms an image based on the plurality of pieces of pixel data transferred via the data bus. In a case where the receiving unit receives the instruction, the controller sets the output cycle as a first cycle if the controller is not operating the second process, or sets the output cycle as a second cycle longer than the first cycle if the controller is operating the second process.

A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

An apparatus includes a forming unit, a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction, a reading unit configured to read an image based on the instruction, a memory configured to store a plurality of pieces of pixel data, a first output unit configured to output the plurality of pieces of pixel data at an output cycle, a data bus configured to transfer the pixel data, and a controller configured to operate a first process and a second process. The forming unit forms an image based on the plurality of pieces of pixel data transferred via the data bus. In a case where the receiving unit receives the instruction, the controller sets the output cycle as a first cycle if the controller is not operating the second process, or sets the output cycle as a second cycle longer than the first cycle if the controller is operating the second process.

A printing apparatus for shortening the time required to read documents having a plurality of pages, while preventing the occurrence of an overflow in a storage unit.

An image forming apparatus includes a print engine to form a page image on a printing sheet, a sheet conveyance unit to convey the printing sheet to the print engine in a non-stop conveyance mode, a video board to supply image data of the page image to the print engine, a controller board to execute predetermined image processing to generate the image data and transfer the image data to the video board, and a conveyance control unit to control the sheet conveyance unit. The video board includes a page memory, an image receiving unit, and an image output unit. The conveyance control unit causes the sheet conveyance unit to start conveyance of a printing sheet, on which the page image is to be printed, after completion of storage of the image data of the page image in the page memory of the video board.

An image forming device that executes an image forming program for real-time mechanical control and another program, using a single cache memory for the image forming program and said another program. The image forming device includes: a cache lockdown unit that executes a cache lockdown to lock down a storage area of the cache memory that stores at least a portion of the image forming program necessary for image formation processing; and a print unit that executes the image formation processing while the storage area is locked down.

An information processing system, including an information processing apparatus communicable with a device, includes circuitry configured to receive, from the device, identification information identifying a service providable by the information processing apparatus, transmit, to the device, a process execution request to implement the service of activating an imaging function of the device, and causing the device to upload the image data captured by using the imaging function to the information processing apparatus, the service corresponding to the identification information, and store the image data captured using the imaging function in a memory.

An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a scanning unit that performs a scanning operation of scanning each page of a document to acquire image data, and a printing unit that performs a printing operation of printing data based on the image data acquired by the scanning unit in parallel with the scanning operation by the scanning unit. The image forming apparatus further includes a control unit that controls the printing unit to stop the printing operation before the printing operation is performed with respect to all the image data acquired by the scanning unit, and controls the printing unit to resume the printing operation with respect to data that is stored in a storage unit based on the image data acquired by the scanning unit while the printing operation is stopped when the data that is stored in the storage unit reaches a first threshold value.