Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tomoyuki Tsukuba

Masato Terao

Yoh Masuyama

Masafumi Yamagami

Shuuichi Kimura

A distributed printing system, in which a parent device divides image data into first and second image data, the first image data edited by the parent device itself, and the second image data requested of a child device to edit. The parent device sends the second image data to the child device and requests the child device to edit the second data, and generates first edited image data and sends the first edited image data to the child device. The child device generates second edited image data by editing the second image data received from the parent device, sends the second edited image data to the parent device, and prints out the first edited image data received from the parent device and the second edited image data sequentially. The parent device prints out the first edited image data and the second edited image data received from the child device sequentially.

Distributed printing system and image forming apparatus, method, and software program for switching between a collaborative processing mode and a centralized processing mode

In an image forming apparatus which includes a hardware resource used for image forming processing and a program for performing processing concerning image formation, a type of reading an original during a plurality of originals which include different types of originals in a mixed manner being read, and printing paper sheets on which images have been formed based on the plurality of originals are grouped.

Image forming apparatus and printing method having printing type changing part

An image forming apparatus prints images on print sheets, and insets tab-index sheets between the printed print sheets. The image forming apparatus includes an orientation detecting unit which detects an orientation of a print sheet being supplied, a rotation-angle selecting unit which selects a rotation angle of an image such that the image is arranged in an orientation matching the detected orientation of the print sheet and in a predetermined positional relationship with a tab of the tab-index sheets, and a printing unit which prints the image being rotated by the selected rotation angle.

Image forming apparatus for printing images properly arranged relative to index tab

An image forming apparatus includes a hardware resource used for image forming processing and a program for performing processing concerning image formation, such that a plurality of originals having different types of originals in a mixed manner, are read, and printing paper sheets on which images have been formed based on the plurality of originals, are grouped.

Image forming apparatus and printing method for printing different types of originals

An image forming apparatus is provided with an orientation setting part for setting a readable orientation of a document that enables an operator of the image forming apparatus to readily read and understand an image on the document when carrying out an image forming process to form the image on a recording medium, a folding direction setting part for setting a folding direction in which a Z-fold of the recording medium is to be made after the image forming process, and a Z-fold part for forming the Z-fold on the recording medium, based on the readable orientation and the folding direction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomoyuki Tsukuba