Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Toshimitsu Morimoto

Masafumi Sato

Hiroshi Manabe

Koji Kubono

Yoshiyuki Taira

Masafumi Satu

A computer, which executes a color machine driver for outputting print data generated by an application program for generating the print data to a color image forming apparatus, accepts an interlocking setting, which is a setting for whether a color setting which is a setting for causing the color image forming apparatus to execute color printing or monochrome printing is interlocked with the application program. In case that the color setting is set not to be interlocked with the application program in the interlocking setting, when the color setting in the color machine driver is a color setting that causes the color image forming apparatus to execute the monochrome printing, the computer causes the application program to generate print data for the color image, and executes a monochrome image forming process for converting the color image into a monochrome image.

Printer driver

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus coupled to the network. The image forming apparatus stores, in a memory device, an information processing apparatus identifier that is assigned to a button of the image forming apparatus and transmits, to the information processing apparatus, press-down information of the button that includes the information processing apparatus identifier. The image forming apparatus additionally reads, if, in the information processing apparatus, it is determined the information processing apparatus identifier in the press-down information matches an information processing apparatus identifier stored within the information processing apparatus, a document image set in a scanner, in response to a scan execution request that is received from the information processing apparatus via the network. The image forming apparatus further transmits image data of the document image to the information processing apparatus via the network, and resets the press-down information.

Scanner-driven push operation realized by image forming apparatus having no auxiliary storage device

A non-transitory recording medium includes an installer program that causes a computer within an information processing device to function as a device list generation unit, a display control unit, and an installation processing unit. The device list generation unit generates a device list. The display control unit causes the device list to be displayed in a first display area; causes a driver list to be displayed in a second display area; causes the device selected from the device list to be displayed in a third display area; and causes the driver selected from the driver list to be displayed corresponding to the device displayed in the third display area. The installation processing unit installs, into the information processing device, the driver displayed corresponding to the device.

Device-driver installation with visual confirmation

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus coupled to the network. The image forming apparatus stores, in a memory device, an information processing apparatus identifier that is assigned to the button and transmits, to the information processing apparatus, press-down information that includes the information processing apparatus identifier corresponding to the button that is pressed-down, in response to a request for the press-down information that is received from the information processing apparatus via the network The image forming apparatus also prints, on a sheet, an image based on print job data that is received from the information processing apparatus via the network, if, in the information processing apparatus, it is determined that the information processing apparatus identifier in the press-down information matches with the information processing apparatus identifier of the information processing apparatus.

Box print realized by image forming apparatus having no auxiliary storage device

An electronic device comprising: a display unit configured to display a setting menu; an operation unit configured to receive an operation from a user; an operation detection unit configured to detects the operation received by the operation unit; a timer unit configured to measure an elapsed time that has elapsed since a start operation relating to a setting of a given function received by the operation unit is detected by the operation detection unit; and a help display processing unit configured to cause the display unit to display help information thereon when an end operation relating to the given function to the operation unit has not been detected by the operation detection unit before the elapsed time measured by the timer unit reaches a predetermined time.

Electronic device, computer readable medium, and help display method

An authentication apparatus includes: a database section that stores a password; an entry section through which a password is entered; a storage section that stores an entered password which is entered through the entry section; an authentication section that authenticates whether the password and the entered password match with each other; and a determining section that determines whether or not a re-entered password is to be subjected to an authentication processing performed by the authentication section when the re-entered password is entered through the entry section after the authentication section determines that the password and the entered password do not match with each other.

Authentication apparatus, authentication method, and computer-readable recording medium storing authentication program

An image formation apparatus includes a receiving unit that is removably receiving a component, a determination unit that determines the acceptability of the component received in the receiving unit, and a control unit that, if the determination unit does not confirm the acceptability of the component, provides a notification and stops at least a portion of the image forming function at a predetermined time, after providing the notification.

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Osaka, Japan

Toshimitsu Morimoto