Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Mamoru Mochizuki

Takashi Kikumoto

Kimihiko Isobe

Jun Wakamatsu

Kazuhiro Ohkawa

Masaharu Tonouchi

Kenichirou Hotokeishi

Yuji Suzuki

Hiroyuki Tsuruoka

Yoshinori Shiraishi

Sumitake Kobayashi

Kota Ariyama

Tsuneo Mayuzumi

An apparatus includes: a generation unit that generates plural pieces of slice data by slicing, by plural planes, a 3D model as represented by 3D data; a plane assignment unit that assigns slice images to planes so that slice images corresponding to a part of the plural pieces of slice data and slice images corresponding to another part of the plural pieces of slice data are to be formed on same set of recording media; and an output unit that generates, according to the plane assignment, image formation information that allows an image forming apparatus to form the slice images on recording media and outputs the generated image formation information to the image forming apparatus, and generates, according to the plane assignment, control data that allow a post-processing apparatus to perform post-processing for manufacture of a 3D modeled object and outputs the generated control data to the post-processing apparatus.

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

An information processing apparatus includes a non-volatile semiconductor storage device including a flash memory, a write buffer memory that stores data that is to be stored onto the non-volatile semiconductor storage device, and a controller that performs control to write in a batch onto the non-volatile semiconductor storage device the data stored on the write buffer memory when an amount of the data stored on the write buffer memory reaches a predetermined amount of data.

Information processing apparatus

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.

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 a memory, a print processing unit, and an erase processing unit. The memory stores one or more pieces of print data each representing print content and being subjected to a print process. The print processing unit performs the print process for a piece of print data stored in the memory, and generates a piece of post-process data that represents print content. The erase processing unit moves, to a trash or a deletion folder, a piece of data for which the print process has been performed among one or more pieces of data stored in the print processing unit, and performs an erase process for a storage area of the piece of data that has been moved, the erase process being a process of data overwriting and being performed in parallel with the print process that is performed for another piece of print data.

Print control apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and print system having erase processing including data overwriting

A print control device is provided with a management unit that receives and manages an instruction to execute processing, a processing unit that performs processing based on the instruction that is received, and a storage unit that stores an attribute information indicating an attribution of the instruction stored by the management unit and state information indicating a processing state of the processing unit in a nonvolatile storing unit using resources of the processing unit when processing based on the instruction is not executed.

Print control device, method for print control and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program for print control

A print control apparatus includes a generation unit, a storage unit, a transfer unit, a memory, and a controller. The generation unit generates image data by performing a rendering process in accordance with a print instruction. The storage unit stores the image data. The transfer unit reads the stored image data and transfers the read image data to a printer that performs printing on a sheet of paper. The memory stores, for each page in the print instruction, a processing time in association with the print instruction. In response to acceptance of an instruction for reprinting the print instruction, the controller controls whether to store the generated image data in the storage unit or to transmit the generated image data to the transfer unit, based on the processing time for each page stored in the memory in association with the print instruction.

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

A printing system includes an allotment device, spooling devices, interpretation devices, and a print controller. The allotment device allots pages of print data to the interpretation devices in a distributed manner in a predetermined order without regard to a print output order corresponding to an imposition designation. The interpretation devices interpret the allotted pages to generate interpretation result data, and each cause a spooling device corresponding to that interpretation device to store the generated interpretation result data. The print controller acquires reference information indicating which spooling device stores the interpretation result data corresponding to each page and output order information indicating the print output order, acquires the interpretation result data for each page from the spooling device storing the interpretation result data for that page in the print output order, and imposes page image data based on the acquired interpretation result data in accordance with the imposition designation.

Printing system

A print data processing system includes plural main interpretation devices that interpret print data described in a page description language and generate print image data to be supplied to a printer, auxiliary interpretation devices that interpret the print data, generate print image data to be supplied to the printer, and are not powered on when the plural main interpretation devices are powered on, and an allocation device that divides the print data in prescribed units and allocates interpretation processing of divided print data of the respective units to the plural main interpretation devices, wherein the allocation device includes a load evaluation unit that evaluates the loads of the plural main interpretation devices, and a power-on unit that, when the loads of the plural main interpretation devices evaluated by the load evaluation unit exceed a prescribed on threshold value for activating the auxiliary interpretation devices, powers on the auxiliary interpretation devices.

Print data processing system

A printing apparatus that can maintain consistency between image information and page numbers with respect to that image information. The printing apparatus includes: a data input unit that embeds identification information for identifying pages to be printed in image information; and a data converting unit, a layout determining unit, a rasterizing unit and a print engine control unit that determine whether or not the processing order is a predetermined page order on the basis of the identification information that has been embedded in each image information set and, when the processing order is the predetermined page order, perform processing in a state where the identification information remains embedded with respect to the image information serving as the determination target.

Printing apparatus with units for embedding indentification information and detecting when pages to be printed are out of order

In a printing system connecting a print requester host and a single or a plurality of print requestee printer by way of a network, the host abstractly defines an output port to an actual printer as the print requestee printer, for printing. The host makes a print request to the abstractly defined output port so that between the host and the printer on the network there are made in sequence for printing a retrieval request from the host, a retrieval response from the printer, a print request from the host, and a response to the print request from the printer.

Printing system, printing method and apparatus

On a page by page basis, a printer serves to print out in sequence print data transferred from a host connected thereto by way of a network. Every time receiving print data from the host, a link information creation unit of the printer creates and saves link information indicative of correlations between packets of print data received and pages on the printer side. In case a print error such as paper jam has occurred during the print out, a resend request unit recognizes from the link information the number of a packet to which a print page subjected to the print error corresponds, and issues a request for resend.

Printer and its control method for creating link information between a transfer data position and a print data position

A peripheral equipment management device and method for integrally managing peripheral equipment connected via a network are provided. In the peripheral equipment management device, a command is given to a plurality of printers at predetermined intervals. The peripheral equipment management device receives responses from the printers, stores the responses, and reports the responses to a monitoring device which monitors the printers.

PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, A PERIPHERAL DEVICE CONNECTED TO A PERIPHERAL MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF THE SAME OF EXECUTING A PROCESS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PROCESS SCHEDULE GENERATED ON THE BASIS OF INFORMATION SENT FROM A DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING A RESULT TO A MONITORING DEVICE

The present invention relates to a system which can gain a transmission access from a printer side to an upper equipment side, and also relates to a printer, a server and a terminal, each used for this system. In the system, the printer is connected to network via bi-directional communicable interface unit. This system is applicable to a network system including terminals, printers and servers via a network such as LAN.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Mamoru Mochizuki