Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yoshinori Fujita

Yohei Ono

Kazuhiro Kawakami

Shunsuke Yano

Tomoko Kawakubo

A printing device includes a print data management unit that is capable of storing and managing print data so as to be associated with corresponding identification information used in user identification; an identification information storing unit that stores the identification information; a receiving unit that receives the print data; an identification information obtaining unit that obtains the identification information included in the print data; a registration determining unit that determines whether the obtained identification information is already registered in the identification information stored in the identification information storing unit; an identification information registering unit that registers in the identification information storing unit the obtained identification information when the registration determining unit determines that the obtained identification information is unregistered; and a print data storing unit that stores the received print data in the print data management unit so as to be associated with the obtained identification information.

Printing device, printing method, computer program product, and recording medium

An information display system for displaying information according to an operation by a user, includes a progress management unit configured to compare a scheduled time of displaying the information with a time that the information is actually displayed, and determine a display progress of the information displayed by the operation of the user; and a display unit configured to display the display progress of the information, based on the display progress of the information determined by the progress management unit.

Information display system, information processing device, and information display method

An image processing apparatus includes a display unit; a screen control unit configured to control display of operation screens on the display unit so that there are more operation procedures for color printing compared to monochrome printing in printing operations performed by a user; a setting change unit configured to change a print setting of print data of a selected stored job, among stored jobs stored in a predetermined storage area, to monochrome or color when a print execution instruction is received, based on the print execution instruction received from an operation screen controlled and displayed by the screen control unit; and a print control unit configured to execute monochrome printing or color printing on the print data according to the print setting changed by the setting change unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshinori Fujita