Image forming system, information processing apparatus, and image forming method that prevents printing

    公开(公告)号:US10545707B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-28

    申请号:US16210527

    申请日:2018-12-05

    Inventor: Wataru Sunami

    Abstract: To provide an image forming system capable of preventing printing that is not intended by a user, an image forming system includes a server capable of storing image data and an image forming apparatus connected to the server via a network and configured to form an image. The image forming apparatus includes an inquiring unit, a determining unit, a requesting unit, and an instructing unit. The inquiring unit is configured to inquire the server for a printing condition of the image data in a case where an input of a registration ID is accepted by an accepting unit, the printing condition being registered in association with the image data. The requesting unit is configured to request the server for downloading of the image data in a case where the determining unit determines that the image forming apparatus conforms with the printing condition. The instructing unit is configured to control an image forming unit to form the image on a sheet, based on the image data downloaded from the server.

    Information processing system and information processing apparatus that back up and restore data

    公开(公告)号:US10289503B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-14

    申请号:US15384744

    申请日:2016-12-20

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a data selector circuit that receives an instruction of a selection range from a serviceman via the operation unit and the display unit, and automatically selects data to be backed up in the external storage device in the selection range out of the pieces of data, a backup circuit that backs up the data selected by the data selector circuit out of the pieces of data in the external storage device being connected, and sends the data unselected by the data selector circuit to the database server for backup, and a restoring circuit that restores the data backed up in the external storage device in a first storage after replacement for the maintenance, then receives the data backed up in the database server, and restores the data in the first storage after replacement for the maintenance without the serviceman.

    Image forming system that uses presence confirmation requests and response requests for installation of a printer driver, image forming apparatus and terminal apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10996905B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-04

    申请号:US16612395

    申请日:2018-03-15

    Inventor: Wataru Sunami

    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system capable of specifying an image forming apparatus to be used with minimum operation without requiring input of special information.
    A terminal apparatus includes a printer searching unit that transmits a response request to an image forming apparatus from which there is a response to a presence confirmation request; an image forming apparatus includes: a response button generating unit that, after receiving the response request, generates a response button; and a printer information transmitting unit that, by operation of the response button, transmits printer information as a response to the response request; and the printer searching unit of the terminal apparatus causes the image forming apparatus from which there is a response to the response request to be highlighted in a display of a network printer list screen.

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