Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Kimihiko Isobe

Takuma Suzuki

Takashi Kikumoto

Mamoru Mochizuki

Jun Wakamatsu

Kazuhiro Ohkawa

Masaharu Tonouchi

Junichi Horii

Kenichirou Hotokeishi

Satoshi Yoshikawa

Hisao Komazawa

Yoshinobu Nakamura

Ken Ogino

Yoshihito Seguchi

Yuichiro Nishiwaki

Nobuhide Kawabata

Kenichiro Hotokeishi

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to from each of a plural order-receiving companies that make-to-order a product ordered by an orderer, receive at least one index value related to a production efficiency of the product and control advertisement distribution to an ordering terminal used by the orderer of the product for an order of the product, so that an advertisement of an order-receiving company having a larger distribution score, that is obtained from the index value for each order-receiving company and indicates a larger value as the production efficiency of the product increases, has a higher degree of contact that the orderer of the product contacts the advertisement.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and method

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to convert, using a conversion rule prescribing an association between order reception information on an article and manufacturing information used by each of plural manufacturers manufacturing the article in accordance with the order reception information on the article, the order reception information into the manufacturing information used by a designated manufacturer that is requested to manufacture the article.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and article order reception and placement system

A printing management apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives order information about a printed material and print data of the printed material; a generating unit that generates bar code information about a bar code assigned to each page of the printed material based on the order information; an output unit that outputs the print data and the bar code information to a printer for executing processing including printing of the printed material; an acquiring unit that, in response to a failure occurring in the processing executed by the printer on a failure page, acquires the bar code information about the bar code assigned to the failure page; and a controller that controls the output unit so that the output unit outputs the bar code information about the failure page and reprint data of a reprinted material including the failure page to the printer.

Printing management apparatus, printing system, and computer readable medium

There is provided an information processing apparatus. A receiving unit receives a data of printing. An output unit outputs image data of each of plural elements which are parts of recording media, if the receiving unit receives print data including height information of a three-dimensional object at positions of each pixel of image data on a two-dimensional image is generated such that the three-dimensional object is formed by stacking the plural elements, and the image data is generated from the height information of the three-dimensional object at the positions of the each pixel.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and three-dimensional object forming system

An information processing apparatus includes a processor, and the processor is configured to: acquire three-dimensional image data for printing processing for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object by forming respective images on recording media and stacking the recording media, and other image data for other printing processing, determine an arrangement to form at least one of the respective images and at least a part of the other image data on same one of the recording media so as to reduce a difference between a height corresponding to the number of recording media to which the other image data is to be recorded and a height of the three-dimensional modeled object, and output image forming information for forming the three-dimensional image data and the other image data on the recording media to an image forming apparatus based on the determined arrangement.

Information processing apparatus, computer readable medium storing information processing program, and three-dimensional modeling system

An information processing apparatus includes a processor, and the processor is configured to acquire, in printing processing for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object by forming respective images on recording media and stacking the recording media, a print job including at least one of two-dimensional image data for forming a two-dimensional image and three-dimensional image data for modeling a three-dimensional modeled object, an instruction of a user for the print job, and attribute information of a plurality of printing apparatuses that are candidates to perform the print job, and select a printing apparatus to perform the acquired print job from the plurality of printing apparatuses based on whether the image data contained in the print job is two-dimensional image data or three-dimensional image data, the attribute information, and the instruction of the user.

An image output service system on a cloud, that outputs information used for image output, includes a converting portion that obtains image data after a converting process from image data before the converting process, by the converting process according to an image output unit that outputs an image, and an output portion that outputs an information group for image output including the image data after the converting process and provision information indicating what types of plural pieces of information the information group is configured by and where each of the pieces of information is arranged.

Image output service system, image output support apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

An information processing apparatus includes: a first output unit that, when an instruction to perform image formation based on 2D image data is received, generates first image formation information for formation of images on respective recording media based on the 2D image data and outputs the generated first image formation information to an image forming apparatus; a second output unit that, when an instruction to perform 3D modeling based on 3D data is received, generates plural slice data by slicing the 3D data by plural respective planes, generates second image formation information for formation of a series of slice images on respective recording media based on the plural generated slice data, and outputs the generated second image formation information to the image forming apparatus; a generation unit that generates a series of control data as defined herein; and a storing unit as defined herein.

Information processing apparatus, three-dimensional modeling system, and computer readable medium storing information processing program

An information processing device includes a retaining unit and an image display. The retaining unit retains image-formation-related information of an image forming apparatus that forms an image. The image display causes a display section of a portable terminal having the display section and an image capturing section to display an image for assisting with an operation of the image forming apparatus based on a captured image result of the image capturing section and the image-formation-related information retained in the retaining unit.

Information processing device, portable terminal, control device, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes: an interrupting unit that, in case where image formation based on 2D image data is commanded during execution of 3D modeling based on slice data generated by slicing 3D data, suspends output of image formation data for formation of slice images on respective recording media by an image forming apparatus and output of control data that allow a post-processing apparatus to perform, without delay, post-processing of the 3D modeling on the recording media on which slice images have been formed by the image forming apparatus; a changing unit that changes order of execution of formation of remaining slice images of the 3D modeling, a remaining part of the post-processing of the 3D modeling, and image formation based on the 2D image data, according to a prescribed condition; and an output unit as defined herein.

Information processing apparatus for interrupting three-dimensional modeling, three-dimensional modeling system, and computer readable medium storing information processing program for the same

A print control apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a setup execution unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from a portable terminal, setting of an apparatus condition of an image forming apparatus that performs printing on continuous paper and of a print start time at which the image forming apparatus starts the printing. The setup execution unit starts a setup process for the image forming apparatus such that the setup process is completed by the print start time on the basis of the setting of the apparatus condition acquired by the acquisition unit. The setup process is performed for the image forming apparatus to perform the printing.

Print control apparatus, printing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A print control apparatus includes a setting unit. The setting unit selects one or more statuses to be obtained among statuses indicating states of as image output apparatus, in accordance with content displayed on a display that displays the selected statuses. The setting unit sets a polling interval at which polling is performed to obtain the selected statuses, in accordance with a frequency of change of the selected statuses. The setting unit sets the number of parallel processes in accordance with the number of selected statuses.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A printer control device uses a rasterized data generation unit that generates rasterized data for a first printer, and a setting information obtainment unit that obtains setting information related to drawing of a mark image for a second printer in the generated rasterized data, so that a mark drawing unit draws the mark image for the second printer in the generated rasterized data on the basis of the setting information, and a printing control unit allows the second printer to perform a printing process using the rasterized data generated for the first printer in which the mark image for the second printer is drawn.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kimihiko Isobe