Seiko Epson Corporation

Kazunobu Nimura

Masaharu Iwatani

Tomoyuki Nakano

Emi Kondo

Tomoyuki Kurata

Hiroaki Momose

Masaru Kubota

Yoshiaki Shibasaki

Minoru Ichimura

Kinko Okamura

An image forming apparatus that forms an output image including an authentication image for authenticity determination on a medium. The image forming apparatus includes: a recording head configured to discharge a droplet onto the medium; a drive unit configured to perform main scanning in which the recording head moves in a main scanning direction and sub scanning in which the medium is fed in a feeding direction; and a control unit configured to control, based on image formation data representing the output image, the main scanning and the sub scanning performed by the drive unit, and the discharge of the droplet performed by the recording head. The control unit performs a control to form the authentication image by a plurality of times of the main scanning in which feeding positions of the medium in the feeding direction are different, and performs a control so that at least one feeding amount of the medium in one sub scanning is different between a feeding amount at time of forming the authentication image and a feeding amount at time of forming a portion of the output image that does not include the authentication image.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A printing control device which includes a printing density determination unit which obtains attribute information of an object included in input document data, and determines a printing density for printing the object according to the line width of an image of the object for which attribute information is a line drawing attribute.

Printing control device and printing control method

An information-displaying system includes a server device, a printing device, and an information terminal device. The printing device includes a request-admitting part, a first generating part, and a first transmitting part. The server includes a first receiving part, a content determining part, a second generating part, a second transmitting part, and a second receiving part. The information terminal device includes a third receiving part, a display part, an operation-instructing part, and a third transmitting part. The second transmitting part is for transmitting generated link information to the information terminal device, and, in an instance in which a content transmission request regarding transmitted link information has been admitted from the information terminal device, for further transmitting content data to the information terminal device. The content data corresponds with a scope of the content to be displayed.

Information-displaying system and information display method

An operation support program is stored in a storage medium. The operation support program includes a support database or a plurality of support program components for supporting a plurality of tasks that are different from one another and are carried out as a result of execution of a plurality of device control programs that are different from one another. The operation support program causes a computer to function as constituent sections including: an update data acquiring section; an updating section; and a graphical user interface configuring section.

Operation support program

The invention relates to a print controlling apparatus for controlling the operation of a printer. The print controlling apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: a setting information storing section that memorizes language type information and country area information that are set for the print controlling apparatus; a status acquiring section that acquires status information of the printer; an image acquiring section that transmits the language type information and the country area information to a server when it is necessary to display a status notification screen for notifying a user of the status of the printer on the basis of the acquired status information of the printer, and then acquires image data corresponding to the language type information and the country area information from the server; and a display controlling section that commands an image based on the image data to be displayed in the status notification screen.

Print controlling apparatus, print controlling method, and printer controlling system for displaying a user interface window

A printing system for performing a printing operation by using a black recording agent and color recording agents, includes: a detecting unit that detects a remaining amount of each of the recording agents; and a printing unit that prints, when the remaining amount of the black recording agents reaches a first threshold value for warning a user against that the remaining mount of the black recording agent is decrease while an printing operation can be carried out in the printing system, data to be printed by using the color recording agents.

Printing system and print controller

A printing control apparatus that facilitates settings, such as magnification-reduction and a layout of plural pages on one printing plane, and thereby improves the operatability. The operator sets in advance print attribute information, such as an orientation, a printable area, and magnification-reduction, mapped to plural pieces of logic sheet information with a data input device,. The plural pieces of logic sheet information with the print attribute information mapped thereto are accordingly registered in a pull-down menu,. The operator selects one piece of logic sheet information out of the pull-down menu,, so as to set the print attribute information corresponding to the selected piece of logic sheet information. In the printing control apparatus, bit map data based on print data are edited according to these various pieces of information.

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Tatsuno-machi, Japan

Kazunobu Nimura