Abstract:
In an information processing device, a support program supports a printer, and a printing program is built in an operating system. The support program causes the information processing device to perform: in a case that a print instruction to execute printing by using the built-in printing program is issued, at least one of a command outputting process and an outputting instruction process. The command outputting process outputs a preceding operation command to the printer before starting transmitting print execution data to the printer. The preceding operation command commands the printer to execute a preceding operation prior to starting printing. The printer having a function to execute the preceding operation specified in the preceding operation command. The outputting instruction process instructs a command transmission program to output the preceding operation command while the outputting instruction process designates the printer as an outputting destination.
Abstract:
A print recording system, including: at least one print recording device; and a computer system that includes a database storing a plurality of print setting information items and is capable of sending and receiving data with respect to the print recording device. The computer system searches the print setting information corresponding to a search condition that is input from the database in accordance with the search condition, repeats the search in accordance with a new search condition when the print setting information does not match the search condition, and sends the print setting information obtained by the search or the repeated search to the print recording device to set the print recording device.
Abstract:
A method of image processing includes: reading a data file in a predetermined page description language including a search key; chaining a plurality of pieces of resource data in each of a plurality of resource dictionaries; loading the chained plurality of pieces of resource data in each of the plurality of resource dictionaries in a memory area including unique keys; searching the requested resource data from the chained pieces of resource data using the search key for matching the unique key of the requested resource data one by one along the chain in both direction from a starting piece of resource data; labeling each of the plurality of pieces of resource data based on a history of the matching. The searching includes determining the starting piece of resource data in the chained plurality of pieces of resource data based on the history.
Abstract:
An example embodiment may involve a target device receiving a file that contains a job. The job may be associated with preferences that are not supported by the target device. In response, the target device may determine weighted ratings for candidate devices, where the weighted ratings are based on the inverse of the physical port distance along an outside of the network switch device. The physical port distance is between a respective pair of two physical ports on the network switch device in which cables are inserted to communicatively connect the target device to the respective candidate devices. The target device may transmit the file to the candidate device with the highest weighted rating.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes a display unit; a storage unit configured to store data to be displayed in the display unit and a display condition for displaying the data; a determination unit configured to determine whether the display condition is satisfied in accordance with a change of status of the apparatus; a display control unit configured to display the data in the display unit in response to an event in which the determination unit determines that the display condition is satisfied; and an updating unit configured to obtain, via a network at a timing represented by information that is stored in association with the data, update information corresponding to at least one of the data and the display condition related to the data, and to update the at least one of the data and the display condition stored in the storage unit based on the update information.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for providing remote approval of an image for printing are provided. One system includes a processing circuit in communication with an image capturing device that is configured to capture an image of a printed product. The processing circuit is configured to process the captured image into a processed image accurate to within a tolerance in a color space to indicate the visual appearance of one or more colors. The color space is a standardized color space, such as sRGB or CIELAB. The processing circuit is further configured to transmit the processed image to a display located remote from the image capturing device and to receive an input signal from a remote input device to allow a user to approve or reject the displayed processed image for printing on a print device.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit that receives an instruction for an operation and executes the operation, and an instruction unit that outputs the instruction to the operation unit. The operation unit includes a configuration storage unit that stores deployment configuration of one or more image forming apparatuses, and an instruction acceptance unit that accepts an instruction for an operation corresponding to the deployment configuration. The instruction unit includes an instruction output unit that receives a designation of an operation, and outputs an instruction for the designated operation to the operation unit, and a configuration reporting unit that, if the designated operation does not correspond to a first deployment configuration stored in the configuration storage unit, reports to the operation unit a second deployment configuration to which the designated operation corresponds, and stores the second deployment configuration in the configuration storage unit, before the instruction is output.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus receives a change of a parameter included in media characteristic information, causes, from media characteristic information held by a storage, the parameter for which the change is received to be held as custom media characteristic information, the apparatus performs an update of the media characteristic information held by the storage in accordance with new media characteristic information and decides, if an update of the custom media characteristic information is to be performed by using the new media characteristic information, whether to hold, or to update without holding, the parameter for which the change is received, based on a difference in configuration between the custom media characteristic information held by the storage and the new media characteristic information.
Abstract:
According to a print control apparatus and a method of controlling the same of the present invention, when the printing apparatus is in a power saving state, when an instruction for registering in the printing apparatus sheet information stored in a storage unit in association with a sheet feeder of the printing apparatus is received, the sheet information is registered in a list, and when the printing apparatus returns from the power saving state, control is performed so that sheet information registered in the list is transmitted to the printing apparatus.
Abstract:
A computer-readable recording medium includes an executable program stored thereon. The program instructs a computer to perform changing setting data for performing print control of a printing device to a value of customization setting to be stored in a storage unit; switching a piece of setting data used for printing among pieces of setting data of a plurality of printing devices stored in the storage unit into a piece of setting data of a printing device instructed to be switched; determining whether there is the customization setting to be invalidated in a type of the device after switching; and changing the customization setting to be invalidated to an alternative setting.