Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Tatsuya Hiwatari

Masafumi Sato

Zhenyu Sun

Yoshio Inoue

Keiji Tsuda

Hiroshi Manabe

Yumi Nakagoshi

Shinichiro Watase

Haruhisa Sumimoto

Daisaku Nagano

Dai Shigenobu

Takehiko Asano

In a print job transmitting apparatus, when the print job transmitting apparatus is communicably connected with a server configured to spool a print job, a transmission destination confirming portion prioritizes the server over an image forming apparatus and confirms the server as a transmission destination of the print job. When the print job transmitting apparatus is not communicably connected with the server and is communicably connected with the image forming apparatus, the transmission destination confirming portion confirms the image forming apparatus as the transmission destination, and even in a case where the print job transmitting apparatus is communicably connected with the server, when a size of the print job is greater than or equal to a specific size, the transmission destination confirming portion confirms the image forming apparatus as the transmission destination.

Print job transmitting apparatus, print system

A print job transmitting apparatus includes a device communication portion configured to communicate with an image forming apparatus for executing a print job, and a server communication portion configured to communicate with a server for managing information relating to the image forming apparatus. The device communication portion, in addition to transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus, obtains, from the image forming apparatus, the information relating to the image forming apparatus. The server communication portion transmits, to the server, the information obtained by the device communication portion.

A device communication portiontransmits a print job to an image forming apparatusand obtains information of the image forming apparatusfrom the image forming apparatus. A server communication portiontransmits the information having been obtained from the image forming apparatusto a serverwhich manages the information of the image forming apparatus. The device communication portionobtains specific information of the image forming apparatusfrom the image forming apparatuswith timing that is independent of timing of transmitting the print job to the image forming apparatus.

Print job transmission device, printing system, and print job transmission method

Provided is a server that is capable of directly sending a notification of an error to a non-registered user who is not authenticated and permitted to use an image forming apparatus. An authenticating unit performs authentication permission according to authentication information of a user. A notification-event-setting unit sets to send a notification of a server error as a recognizable event to a non-registered user, who is not registered to perform authentication permission by the authenticating unit. An event-notifying unit notifies about the event set by the notification-event-setting unit when the error actually occurs.

Server, image forming system and error notification method for perfoming authentication permission of users using image forming apparatuses

Provided is an image forming system capable of updating internal data of an external device according to an instruction from a server. An app-installing unit installs an application for updating internal data of card reader in an image forming apparatus. An internal-data-updating unit causes the image forming apparatus to execute the application installed by the app-installing unit. An app-acquiring unit acquires the application from the server according to an instruction from the server. An app-executing unit executes the app acquired by the app-acquiring unit and updates the external device to the internal data. As a result, the internal data of the card reader is updated.

Image forming system, server, and image forming apparatus for updating internal data of an external device directly connected to the image forming apparatus

An output system includes an output section, a fee calculation section, and a payment code notification section. The output section outputs an image and/or a document. The fee calculation section calculates a fee necessary for outputting the image and/or the document in accordance with a specific standard. The payment code notification section notifies a payment code issued by an online payment service for the fee calculated by the fee calculation section. The output section outputs the image and/or the document when the fee has been paid via the online payment service using the payment code notified by the payment code notification section.

Output system and image forming apparatus

A storage device stores device configuration definitions including a plurality of device image parts indicating the image forming apparatus and one or more devices physically attachable to the image forming apparatus, respectively, a plurality of device image definitions defining the plurality of device image parts with respect to a plurality of device identifiers identifying the image forming apparatus and the one or more devices, respectively, and a plurality of device offset information definitions defining offset amounts with respect to the plurality of device identifiers, respectively, the offset amounts indicating relative positions of the plurality of device image parts, respectively. A processor operates as a device image processor carried out by a software executing module, the software executing module being configured to execute a software program for driving and/or managing the image forming apparatus on an OS, and a device image module configured to communicate with the device image processor.

Information processing apparatus

A job executing system includes an image forming apparatus, a user terminal, a computer, and a bank account management system. The online payment service transmits a payment completion notification of a charge and a payment code to the computer with the computer identifier made to correspond to the payment code in first payment code management information. When the computer receives the payment completion notification, the computer transmits the payment completion notification of the charge for the job with the job identifier made to correspond to the payment code in the second payment code management information to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus having the image forming apparatus identifier made to correspond to the payment code in the second payment code management information. When the image forming apparatus receives the payment completion notification, the image forming apparatus executes the job with the job identifier.

Job executing system that uses online payment service to pay for charge, and job executing method

A printing system includes an electronic device and a print apparatus. The electronic device includes a central processing unit and a storage device, and generates a print job. The print apparatus executes the print job. The storage device stores a job transmission program. The CPU executes the job transmission program to function as a spool availability determination unit and a job transmitter. The spool availability determination unit executes a determination of whether the print apparatus is capable of spooling an instruction execution type print job as the print job, executed in accordance with a specific instruction. The job transmitter transmits the instruction execution type print job to the print apparatus when the spool availability determination unit determines that the print apparatus is capable of spooling the instruction execution type print job. The spool availability determination unit obtains determination information for the determination from the print apparatus.

Print system that reduces transmission failure of instruction execution type print job and recording medium

A printing system includes a server, an electronic device and a print apparatus. The electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a storage device storing a printer driver. The CPU executes the printer driver to function as an authentication unit, a user information storage unit, and a job transmitter. The authentication unit transmits authentication information of a user and receives user information from the server. The user information storage unit stores the user information received by the authentication unit. The job transmitter uses the user information received by the authentication unit to transmit an instruction execution type print job to the print apparatus. If the user information is not received by the authentication unit, the job transmitter transmits the instruction execution type print job corresponding to print regulation information included in the user information stored in the user information storage unit to the print apparatus.

Printing system, and recording medium therefor, that enable spooling of instruction execution type print jobs in print apparatus in accordance with print-regulating information

A printing system includes a plurality of print apparatuses each including a CPU, a storage device including a job management program, and a display. The display displays a list screen, into which a first list of instruction execution type print jobs received from another of the plurality of print apparatuses and a second list of the instruction execution type print jobs of a logged-in user among the instruction execution type print jobs spooled in the storage device are combined on the display In the other of the plurality of print apparatuses, if status change of spooling of the logged-in user's instruction execution type print job has occurred, the print apparatus is notified of the status change of spooling from the other of the plurality of print apparatuses to update the list screen displayed on the display.

Printing system, and recording medium therefor, that enable one image forming apparatus to execute instruction execution type print job spooled in another image forming apparatus

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.

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Tatsuya Hiwatari