Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takashi Toriumi

Mie Watanabe

Tohru Sasaki

Makoto Sasaki

Hiroyuki Sakuyama

Takuya Mori

Katsumi Tanaka

Tomohiro Kuroyanagi

Koichiro Maemura

Fumiyoshi Kittaka

Shunsuke Watanabe

Yukinori Ishii

Junki Aoki

Atsushi Okazato

Yasunori Tsukioka

Hirohisa Saitoh

Yuka Konno

Masahiro Fukuda

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Takahiro Hashimoto

Shizhong Zhu

Akihiro Kinoshita

Yongtao Liang

Fumihiro Umetsu

An operation unit in a child device causes a main unit in the child device to execute a stand-alone job, and causes the main unit and a server device to execute a cooperating job. The main unit executes the stand-alone job every time it is requested, and generates and manages a stand-alone job log including stand-alone job log identification information. The server device controls the execution of stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job based on a request for executing the cooperating job, and manages cooperating job identification information associated with the stand-alone job log identification information of the stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job. The server device acquires the stand-alone job logs from the main unit and extracts the stand-alone job logs including the stand-alone job log identification information associated with the cooperating job identification information, to generate a cooperating job log corresponding to the cooperating job.

Cooperative system, information processing apparatus, and computer program product

An operating information storing system includes a master apparatus and multiple slave apparatuses. The master apparatus and each slave apparatus respectively include a first processor. The master apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, the first processor that acquires operating information generated by each slave apparatus, stores the acquired operating information, and determines if at least one operating information indicates specific operating information, and a first transmitter. Each slave apparatus includes a volatile memory, a second processor to store generated operating information in the volatile memory sequentially, and a second transmitter that transfers the operating information stored in the volatile memory to the master apparatus. The second processor stores the specific operating information in the volatile memory until the second transmitter transfers the generated specific operating information to the master apparatus based on the request transferred by the first transmitter in the master apparatus if the specific operating information is generated.

Operating information storing system, operating information storing method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an operating information storing method for storing information from volatile memory to non-volatile memory

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium includes a printing management program, which, when processed by a computer, causes the computer to function as a scheduling unit configured to schedule a print job in an image forming apparatus, the print job having a printing capability that matches a printing capability set in the image forming apparatus; and a capability change job generator configured to generate a capability change job having an instruction to change the printing capability set in the image forming apparatus. When the capability change job generated by the capability change job generator is scheduled in the image forming apparatus, the scheduling unit schedules the print job having the printing capability that matches the printing capability changed by the capability change job after the capability change job.

Printing management device having a capability change job generator, printing management method, printing system and recording medium

An information processing apparatus includes a first controller, a data editor, and a second controller. The first controller is configured to display a data editable preview window based on job data created from input data and receive data editing operation through the preview window. The data editor is configured to edit the job data in accordance with the data editing operation received through the preview window. The second controller is configured to transmit, to an output device, output data converted from the edited job data and request the output device to execute job processing.

Information processing apparatus, data editing method, and computer program product

A print control device includes a prohibition determination unit, when a first sheet size of a sheet stored in a printing device is different from a second sheet size designated by an operator, preventing, when determining that the second sheet size of the sheet can be generated by cutting the sheet having the first sheet size, an execution of a post process function other than cutting in the printing device; and a workflow generation unit generating a workflow including operational steps of causing a cutting device to cut the sheet having the first sheet size to obtain the sheet having the second sheet size, and causing a functional device other than the cutting device to perform the post process function on the printing output after cutting the sheet having the first sheet size.

Recording medium having post-processing prohibition program stored thereon, print control device, and print control system

A printing control program product is disclosed, which causes a computer to function as a printer control unit; a printing conditions control processing unit; and an overall control unit which, for a printing job with a determined result of not matching, when a size of a sheet onto which printing is to be made can be generated by cutting a mounted sheet, arranges picture drawing data of a printed output in a layout suitable for the size of the sheet onto which the printing is to be made by cutting the mounted sheet, along the layout after the printing, and generating the printed output.

Printing control program product, printing control apparatus, and printing system

A printing control program is disclosed which causes a computer to function as a calculating unit; a page data generating unit which generates page data for outputting unused tab sheets; a job data generating unit which generates one job data set into which a first data job set and a second data set are combined, the first job data set being for outputting a printed output to a first sheet-discharging destination based on manuscript submission data and the second job data set being for outputting the unused tab sheet to a second sheet-discharging destination based on the page data; and a job data transmitting unit which transmits the one job data set to a job management unit which causes information on job data to be displayed on a display apparatus.

Recording medium having printing control program thereon, printing control apparatus, and printing control method

A print management apparatus includes a writing-image processing unit and a job generation processing unit. The writing-image processing unit determines whether print data, to be printed using the print management apparatus, includes both color page and monochrome page, and generates writing-image data of the color page and writing-image data of the monochrome page from the print data. The job generation processing unit prepares a preliminary job ticket for printing the color page and a preliminary job ticket for printing the monochrome page based on an initial job ticket set for the print data when the writing-image processing unit determines that the writing-image data includes both color page and monochrome page.

Print management apparatus, print management system and print management method which uses job tickets

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takashi Toriumi