Seiko Epson Corporation

Yuichi Sugiyama

Koji Nishizawa

Shigeo Tajima

Keigo Mori

Hidehisa Omiya

Shigeru Hirai

Satoru Ono

Ayako Kobayashi

Yuto Fukuchi

Tetsuyuki Minamihara

Yoshiki Katsuma

Masahiro Ito

Kana Ogawa

Toshiaki Kimura

Hideaki Watanabe

Toshiki Gonda

Masaru Koda

Cao Le

A display screen generation apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring for each of a plurality of print products produced through a plurality of processes, progress of the processes; and a display portion generating a display screen that displays for each of the plurality of print products, the process waiting to be executed, the process being executed, the process already executed, and the process not intended to be executed in a distinguishable manner from each other.

Display screen generation apparatus, display apparatus, display screen generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display screen generation program for improving process management screen

A colorimetric method is executed by a server that communicates with an information processing apparatus coupled to a printing apparatus and to a colorimetric device. The method includes: creating work information that includes print commanding information related to a command to print a chart image based on chart information and also includes colorimetry commanding information related to a command to perform colorimetry for the chart image; storing the work information; transmitting the print commanding information to the information processing apparatus; causing the information processing apparatus to command, according to the print commanding information, the printing apparatus to print the chart image; transmitting the colorimetry commanding information to the information processing apparatus; and acquiring colorimetry result information created as a result of the colorimetry performed for the chart image by the colorimetric device.

Colorimetric method, colorimetric system, and server

A display apparatus includes: a first acquisition portion acquiring progress of a plurality of processes for print product produced through the processes based on information transmitted from a printer; a second acquisition portion acquiring the progress in response to an operation of a user to proceed with the production; and a display portion displaying in a distinguishable manner on a display, an automatic transition process and a manual transition process included in the processes, the automatic transition process automatically transitioning to the subsequent process based on the information transmitted from the printer and a manual transition process manually transitioning to the subsequent process in response to the operation.

Display apparatus, display screen generation apparatus, display method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display program

There is provided a printer including: a storage that stores transmission discrimination format information and information specification format information; a printing executor that performs printing based on print data received from a POS terminal; and a controller that transmits print text data, in which information adapted to information specification format indicated by information specification format information among information included in the print text data is converted or deleted, to a control server when a format of the print text data based on the print data received from the POS terminal is adapted to a transmission discrimination format indicated by the transmission discrimination format information.

Printer communication using formatted printing information and alteration or deletion of formatted printing information

A control server to which a management apparatus and a printer configured to print settlement information and issues a receipt are connectable, includes a processor configured to acquire text data on the settlement information from the printer, acquires an item value of an item contained in the settlement information from the text data, acquires a setting relating to a notation form of the item value in the different notation forms depending on regions from the processor, and acquires the item value in the different notation forms depending on regions from the text data based on the setting.

Acquiring item values from printers based on notation form settings

A control server which includes a control server controller which, on a screen for displaying print text data according to a layout according to which receipt information is printed on a paper, displays a plurality of setting items corresponding to an extraction item as a setting menu and receives selection of the setting item in a state where selection of extraction item related text is received and the extraction item related text is selected, sets the extraction item related text as item value text in a case where an item value setting item is selected, generates an extraction condition for extracting the item value text from print text data based on at least one of a relative position of the item value text in the print text data and an attribute of the item value text, and extracts text matching the generated extraction condition as the item value text.

Information processing device, control method of information processing device, and storage medium

A recording device in a transaction processing system extracts extraction information that is used in a process executed by a control server to provide a service from transaction information based on a transaction process, and outputs a code containing a URL of the control server to which extraction information and identification information are added. When accessed by a terminal reading the code, the control server acquires and stores the extraction information and uniform identification information added to the URL, and uses the stored extraction information to execute a process providing a service.

Transaction system, processing device, and control device

[Problem] To enable easily using transaction information printed on receipts through an external device. [Solution] A control serverthat can communicate with a printerthat produces receipts printed with transaction information related to a transaction, has a plurality of APIs registered thereon, and has: a control server storage unitthat stores a transaction information manager database; and a control server control unitthat receives transaction information from the printer, stores the received transaction information in the transaction information manager database, and when response request information requesting a response and including API call information specifying an API is received from a management device, executes a process through the API specified by the API call information based on the transaction information stored in the transaction information manager database, and sends information indicating the process result to the management device

Information processing device, information processing system, and control method of an information processing device

The recording deviceof a transaction processing systemsends main print data instructing printing a main receipt, which is a receipt for a single transaction, or partial receipt print data instructing printing partial receipts, which are receipts produced when payment for a single transaction is split between multiple parties, to a control server. The control serverreceives the main print data and the partial receipt print data, and stores information based on the main print data or information based on the partial receipt print data in a transaction information manager database

Information processing device, transaction processing system, and recording device

A print control systemincludes a control serverthat opens a communication path for asynchronous duplex communication, generates print data, and outputs the generated print data by the opened communication path; and a printerthat opens a communication path, receives the print data by the opened communication path, and prints based on the received print data.

Print control system

A POS terminalin a transaction systemtransmits control data instructing executing a transaction-related process during a transaction; a recording devicereceives the control data, executes a process based on the control data, transmits transaction information based on the control data and transaction identification information identifying the transaction information, and outputs a 2D code representing the transaction identification information; a terminalreads the transaction identification information from the 2D code output by the recording device, and transmits the transaction identification information that was read and a customer ID, which is identification information to store; and a control serverreceives the transaction information and transaction identification information from the recording device, receives the transaction identification information and customer ID from the terminal, and relationally stores the transaction information and customer ID when both of the received transaction identification information match.

Transaction system, information processing method, and processing device

A POS control systemhas a POS terminalthat transmits print control data; a printerincluding a print unit, a print control unitthat controls the print unitbased on the print control data, and a print data communication unitthat transmits the print control data by a first WebSocket connection CT; and a print data process unitthat executes a process based on the received print control data.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Yuichi Sugiyama