Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Katsutoshi Ishikawa

Yasuhiro Nakai

Kumiko Ogino

Shinsaku Tohki

Yoshikado Yamada

Toshihisa Matsuo

Atsushi Narukawa

Masakatsu Nakamura

Kimihito Yamasaki

Shunsuke Yajima

Junichi Kajiwara

Yoshiteru Mori

Hideo Taniguchi

Masashi Toyoda

Yoshiyuki Noda

Tadashi Okada

Keiji Nobuhara

Koji Oku

Katsumi Nakanishi

Masako Yoshinaga

Kohji Oku

Kouichi Murakami

An ordering apparatus receives unit information for specifying units constituting a composite apparatus to be ordered. The ordering apparatus creates composite state information for specifying a composite state of units based on the received unit information, according to a predetermined rule. Meanwhile, the composite apparatus recognizes unit information for specifying units constituting itself, and creates composite state information based on the recognized unit information, according to the same rule as the above rule. Then, the composite state information created by the ordering apparatus and the composite state information created by the composite apparatus are compared. Accordingly, it is possible to realize a managing system capable of appropriately managing a complicated composite apparatus at the time of ordering, shipment, setup, subsequent maintenance, etc.

Managing method, managing system, composite apparatus, ordering apparatus, computer program and memory product

Image information input through an image information input device (e.g., image reader) is stored into an image information storage device (e.g., hard disk) and erased by an image information erasing device. A manager device (e.g., device controller) manages the status of an image processing apparatus and actuates the image information erasing device in accordance with the status of the image processing apparatus and erases the image information stored in the image information storage.

Image processing apparatus

An image forming device comprising a job storage meansconnected to a network for storing jobs input through the network composed of a group of image data to be output, a job select meansfor selecting various arbitrary jobs out of the jobs stored to the job storage means, a job output meansfor combining the jobs selected by the job select means and outputting the same as one job, an output form comparison meansfor comparing each of the image output forms of each job selected by said job select means, and a display meansfor notifying that a job having different output form compared to the other forms of jobs is included in the selected jobs.

Image forming device for image output form control

A digital copying machine including a scanner section for reading an image of a document and a printer section for printing on a sheet copy data obtained by the scanner section. The copying machine is connected via a communication line with a plurality of external terminals, for example, a personal computer or a facsimile apparatus. The digital copying machine is adapted to receive external data transferred from any one of the external terminals during the printing operation in copy mode for recording the image of the document, and to utilize a suspended period of the printer section for effecting the printout of the external data thus received.

Image forming apparatus having real time priority determining means

An image forming apparatus comprising rotatable cassettes rotated by cassette rotating means between a longitudinal feeding station from which paper is fed in a longitudinal direction thereof and a lateral feeding station from which paper is fed in a lateral direction thereof, wherein memory means stores a cassette rotation signal, when the cassette rotation signal is entered therein and cassette rotating means is controlled in accordance with the cassette rotation signal stored in the memory means when a cassette rotation permission signal for permitting the rotation of the rotatable cassette is generated, so that the rotatable cassette is set in a predetermined feeding station. The invention also provides an image forming apparatus capable of storing the feeding station of the rotatable cassette in the memory means and rotating the rotatable cassette to the feeding station stored in the memory means when the rotatable cassette is out of both longitudinal feeding station and lateral feeding station. Further, the invention provides an imagae forming apparatus capable of selecting a desired cassette from a plurality of cassettes and instructing to rotate the rotatable cassette by depressing a minimum number of operation keys. The invention further provides an image forming apparatus wherein the rotatable cassette is taken out therefrom by setting the rotatable cassette in either of the longitudinal feeding station and the lateral feeding station, characterized in that the rotatable cassette is set in the feeding station specified as a rotatable cassette taking-out/insertion position each time an image formation is completed.

Image forming apparatus

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Nara, Japan

Katsutoshi Ishikawa