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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2024
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Araki, Mishima Shizuoka, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A server apparatus that communicates with a plurality of image forming apparatuses respectively having scan functions and a user terminal that provides an image that should be formed by any one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The server apparatus includes a receiving unit, an analyzing unit, and a determining unit. The receiving unit receives job information indicating the image that should be formed transmitted by the user terminal. The analyzing unit analyzes density in the image from the job information. The determining unit determines, based on the density information and image quality information of each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses obtained by scanning, in each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, reference paper on which monochrome reference images having gradations in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction are formed in separated positions of at least two parts in the first direction, a proper machine suitable for forming the image out of the plurality of image forming apparatuses.