Abstract:
Provided is a control apparatus that manages expendable supplies appropriately so as a trouble unexpected to an image forming apparatus does not happen. An image forming apparatus has a detecting circuit that detects identification information of a container when replacing the container of expendable supplies and transmitting circuit that transmits event information including detected identification information to the control apparatus. The control apparatus has a receiving circuit that receives the event information. An identification information determining circuit of the control apparatus compares the identification information of the container included in the received event information with a management table that manages shipped expendable supplies. Thereby, the identification information of the container corresponds to the shipped expendable supplies is determined. If not correspond to the shipped expendable supplies, the notice circuit notifies content that shows not corresponding to the image forming apparatus.
Abstract:
Provided is a pull printing system that is capable of improving security performance over that of a typical system. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing a transmission instruction from a user terminal is successful, a pull printing server of the pull printing system correlates a printing job from the user terminal with identification information of a person providing an execution instruction from the user terminal, and spools the printing job. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing the execution instruction from an MFP is successful, the pull printing server sets the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction as a target candidate of pull printing when spooling the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction.
Abstract:
A pull print system includes a printing apparatus (MFP) that executes a print job, a pull print server that spools the print job to be executed as a pull print by the printing apparatus, and an electronic device that sends the print job to the pull print server. The pull print server sends to the electronic device setting information for a job setting being a setting of the print job, and when displaying a setting screen for the job setting, the electronic device displays the setting screen on which the setting information sent from the pull print server is reflected.
Abstract:
A management system includes a management server and one or more image forming apparatuses. The management server includes an operation input unit, a display, a first communication unit, a storage unit, and a manager unit. The manager unit, when the administrator instructs a set value change of a setting item for a specific image forming apparatus, determines which set value management group includes the image forming apparatus to which the change has been instructed, refers to a reflection-range table of a set value management group including the image forming apparatus to which the change has been instructed, determines which image forming apparatus among other image forming apparatuses executes the set value change based on the reference result, and instructs the other determined image forming apparatus to change the set value.
Abstract:
A server, image forming apparatus, image forming system, or monitoring method allows an administrator an intuitive, visual grasp of the status of an image forming apparatus and helps reduce the load on network communication. The server has a template code/character data acquirer that acquires, from an image forming apparatus having a display displaying a panel image, a template code corresponding to a template image included in the panel image and character data included in the panel image; and a panel image generator that reads, from a storage storing a template image, the template image corresponding to the template code and that generates the panel image by combining together the template image read and the character data acquired from the image forming apparatus.
Abstract:
A mobile device receives a latest version of firmware with a firmware management system that manages firmware and receives a current version of firmware in an image forming apparatus through close-range communication with the image forming apparatus. The mobile device determines whether or not a later version than the current version of firmware in the image forming apparatus exists based on the latest version of firmware and the current version of firmware that are received.