Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Shinichiro Watase

Haruhisa Sumimoto

Hiroshi Manabe

Tatsuya Hiwatari

Masafumi Sato

Yoshiyuki Taira

Yuichi Komori

Syunta Isami

The information processing device includes: a display part; an operational input part; an MFP selection part for presenting to an administrator a list of MFP candidates for activation of an optional function and then accepting a selection of the MFP via the operational input part; an optional function selection part for presenting to the administrator a list of optional function candidates to be activated on the selected MFP and then accepting a selection of the optional function via the operational input part; a license key acquisition part for acquiring a license key for activation of the selected optional function; and an optional function activation part for issuing to the selected MFP an instruction for activating the selected optional function on the selected MFP.

Image forming system that reduces time and labor for inputting license-related data to validate optional function of image forming apparatus, and activation method

An information processing apparatus includes: an operation input device; a drawing command reception circuit that receives, based on an instruction to execute a printing job, a drawing command from an application program, and converts it into an intermediate code to output it; an intermediate code storage that stores the output intermediate code; a layout determination circuit that takes out the intermediate code from the storage and corrects it by rearranging it; and a PDL generation circuit that converts the corrected intermediate code into a PDL and outputs the PDL. The layout determination circuit keeps, when there is an instruction to accumulate the printing job, the intermediate code of the printing job in the storage, and takes out, when there is an instruction to not accumulate the printing job, the intermediate code from the storage and corrects it by rearranging it based on an instruction.

Information processing apparatus that has function of multi-up printing of different printing jobs

Provided is a non-transitory storage medium storing a printer driver and a printing method, which enable to improve print quality even if an original is extremely reduced for printing. A computer, which executes the printer driver to be used by application software for generating a print script to be printed by an MFP from the original in accordance with ability of the MFP, obtains a scale factor on the basis of a size of a recording medium to be printed by the MFP and a size of the original (S), multiplying the scale factor obtained in Sby an actual print resolution of the MFP so as to obtain a resolution to reply (S), and reply the resolution to reply obtained in Sto the application software in response to an inquiry about the ability from the application software (S).

Non-transitory storage medium storing printer driver used by application software that generates print script from original in accordance with ability of image forming apparatus, and printing method

Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods for emulating a printing range, on a sheet of paper, of a first image forming apparatus by a second image forming apparatus. An example method includes starting a first printer driver for a first image forming apparatus, obtaining printing range information of the first image forming apparatus from the first printer driver, and creating a plug-in file based on the printing range information of the first image forming apparatus. The plug-in file may include a function for changing a printing range for a second printer driver for a second image forming apparatus. The example method also includes installing the plug-in file into the second printer driver.

Methods for emulating the printing range of an image forming apparatus via a printer driver

By a computer executing a driver program, an icon display processing unit, an operation detection unit, a setting change processing unit, and a customization unit are implemented. The icon display processing unit displays on a display device an icon associated with a setting item in an icon list. When a click operation is detected by the operation detection unit, the setting change processing unit changes a value of the setting item associated with the clicked icon to another value. Then, the icon display processing unit switches an icon image corresponding to a change of the value of the setting item. The customization unit customizes the icon list by performing at least one of adding or deleting the setting item to/from the icon list.

Computer-readable recording medium storing driver program, image forming system, image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and driver program

A method, program product, and system for controlling a print device which helps minimizing effects which a failure of a plug-in module for adding a function of a printer driver may cause to the printer driver body and other plug-in modules The print device control system includes a data processing device and a plug-in server. The data processing device has a printer driver embedded thereon. The plug-in server has plug-in modules for executing an add-function of the printer driver, and executes, according to a request from the printer driver, the plug-in module corresponding to the request, and returns processed data to the printer driver. The plug-in server is configured as a process different from the printer driver. The printer driver returns the processed data to the data processing device through a memory with the data processing system.

System and method for controlling print device

A drawing device which outputs an image datum based on a drawing mode and a command to draw, includes a coordinate conversion unit which converts coordinates in the command to draw in accordance with a designated reduction ratio and a compensation unit which adds a width to a line to be drawn when a width of the line is lost by a conversion executed by the coordinate conversion unit.

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Osaka, Japan

Shinichiro Watase