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8179540 |
Image forming apparatus and management system utilizing counter and job log information for usage tracking
An image forming apparatus is provided that holds counter information obtained by integrating a consumption of a consumable that depends on usage of service provided by the image forming apparatus....
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8175484 |
Image processing system, image forming apparatus, control method of the same, program, and storage medium
In an image processing system, a charging process for an executed print process is executed using one of a first charging method and a second charging method. Especially, when executing a print...
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8154737 |
Method and system for estimating color ink usage for a print job element
Methods and systems for estimating the amount of color ink that will be used to print a print job element classify individual color drawing objects of the print job element in a pre-raster image...
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8150291 |
Power management system, power management method and computer readable medium storing program, allowing power management of a plurality of image forming apparatuses
When there are a plurality of candidate image forming apparatuses that are to be turned ON, a CPU refers to an MFP wearout degree table and obtains wearout degree of each candidate. Then, the CPU...
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8149432 |
Information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium storing program for modifying print instructions
An information processing apparatus that can be connected to an image-forming apparatus, a method, and a program used for the information processing apparatus are disclosed. The information...
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8116651 |
Printing system and method of charging to print document therein
A printing system and a method of charging to print a document therein. The printing system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The sever includes a storing part in which reference...
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8107102 |
Printer controller and computer readable medium for use in authentication of printing by printer
A printer controller includes: a selecting unit that selects authentication information from among a plurality of authentication information; a first transmitting unit that transmits the...
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8073354 |
Image forming apparatus that controls the number of printed sheets
An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may be for printing sheets on the basis of a print instruction input therein, including: a limit quantity storage unit storing a...
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8066183 |
Method to prevent metered toner gray market leakage
A device, such as a printer or copier, identifies the type of module being used. If the type of module requires the device to receive an unlock code, the device prompts for the unlock code (which...
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8027609 |
Image forming apparatus for counting images formed by the apparatus
An apparatus having an operative mode and a non-operative mode with a method for counting events with a volatile counter and a non-volatile electronic memory having a number N of memory areas,...
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8004699 |
Image processing apparatus with card reader setting table
A scanner section, a printing section, and an operation section having an input section for receiving operational information and a display section are provided. A setting table section is provided...
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8006176 |
Methods and systems for imaging-device-based form field management
Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for modifying and managing form documents with an application that receives input from an imaging device user interface and...
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7986425 |
Image forming apparatus with department management function, network printer with department management function, department management method of image forming apparatus and department management method of network printer
The invention relates to an image forming apparatus with a department management function connected to computers provided in plural departments, respectively, via a network. The image forming...
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7978348 |
Imaging device
An imaging device capable printing images in a plurality of print modes includes an image storage, a print mode data storage that stores a plurality of pieces of print mode data corresponding to...
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7969599 |
Device managing system, information process apparatus, and control method thereof
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus, which counts process amounts in the device for each user, in a system for processing print jobs within a range of access limitation...
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7962050 |
System and method for controlling ordering of printing supplies based on a service contract
A system and method for managing customer orders associated with at least one printer device for consumable supplies under a contract. The method includes receiving printer usage data from at least...
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7957664 |
Image forming apparatus which determines billing amount
There is provided an image forming apparatus in which when printing is performed based on an electrophotographic process, counting is performed by a counter for each print operation, and billing...
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7948644 |
Print job cost estimate method and system
Automatically determining the cost of a printed job on a digital printing press before the job is run. A job control component in the digital front end of the printing press collects and stores the...
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7925178 |
Image forming apparatus with display section which displays a guide screen
The present invention can print out operating instructions, HELP documents, the latest image forming apparatus information, support and maintenance information, advertisements about new models and...
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7912394 |
Image processing apparatus capable of carrying out image processing such that charged amount does not exceed upper limit
In a printing apparatus, a charged amount to be charged when printing is carried out under a predetermined condition is calculated in advance. If the charged amount is lower than an upper limit of...
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7912395 |
Monitoring apparatus and monitoring system for image forming apparatus and control method for monitoring apparatus and monitoring system
A monitoring apparatus and a monitoring system monitor a person who removed an output sheet for a print job or a copy job from an image forming apparatus that can be used by a plurality of users....
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7907305 |
Estimating an amount of color content in a document
What is provided herein is a novel system and method for estimating the amount of color in a document. In one embodiment, a binary CMYK input image is received. Each of the CMYK plane is received...
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7903285 |
Estimating an amount of color in a document
What is provided are a novel system, method, and computer program product for estimating the amount of color in a document to be printed, with the capability to handle composite black. A color...
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7889372 |
Image forming device that sets initial value of printer operation mode according to management mode
An image forming device has a printer capable of selectively setting a first operation mode to print an image on a medium and a second operation mode to print an image on the medium, the first...
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7889371 |
Image forming device having division management function
In a case where both a division management function which counts the number of pages printed for each division and a color management function which counts the only number of chromatically printed...
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7880912 |
Network printing system having automated selection of a destination printer
A network printing system is provided having a plurality of network printers, a plurality of computer terminals, and at least one processor in operative communication with the plurality of printers...
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7880903 |
Image forming device having division and color management functions
An image forming device including a printer having a plurality of operation modes sets beforehand the number of pages printed by the printer to be counted in a division counter or a division...
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7873553 |
Methods and systems for authorizing imaging device concurrent account use
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for allowing a plurality of concurrent users to use a single imaging device account.
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7839510 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium storing program
An information processing apparatus that can be connected to an image-forming apparatus, a method, and a program used for the information processing apparatus are disclosed. The information...
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7839521 |
Methods and systems for print job management and printing
A print system may include a job management server and a plurality of print stations. The job management server may receive, from a first network, a print stream that is representative of a...
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7835658 |
Image forming apparatus which determines billing amount
There is provided an image forming apparatus in which when printing is performed based on an electrophotographic process, counting is performed by a counter for each print operation, and billing...
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7831166 |
Image forming apparatus and control method for the same
For a network printer function and a network scan function, a trial using mode whose use frequency is limited can be set. When the preset trial using mode is finished, the use of the tried function...
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7826083 |
Management of multiple page description languages
An image forming apparatus decides, in response to an information request transmitted from an information processing apparatus, a priority image forming unit from a plurality of image forming units...
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7791749 |
Printer having a communication section for obtaining print information necessary to print
A printer 10 provided with communication section 11 for obtaining print information necessary to print, from plural host devices 30 through transmission route 50, is characterized by comprising; a...
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7782475 |
Device management apparatus and device management method
A device management apparatus is adapted to be connected to devices which constitute at least one device group. An application is running in the device management apparatus. Each of the device...
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7769312 |
Image forming apparatus including operational cost efficiency management unit
One embodiment of the present invention is provided with an image information storage unit, an image information processing unit, an actual image forming unit, an image information control unit...
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7760382 |
Image forming system with user authentication correlating user to department for accounting purposes
An input of a user ID is accepted upon executing a copying process and the accepted user ID is transmitted to a department-management server, whereby a department ID of a department to which the...
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7752571 |
Program recording medium recorded with facsimile driver program
A facsimile driver program recorded in a program recording medium is installed in a client device for a user to enter the type of process requested of a multifunction device. A first transmission...
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7751727 |
Expense recovery system for multi-function device with smart data entry
An expense recovery system for a digital MFD in the form of a modification to the application program interface of the MFD to allow input of identifiers for the user, the client and the job and to...
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7742715 |
Charging system, image forming apparatus, information processing device, charging method, and program for managing charge adjustment according to contents of a trouble
A charging system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, and an information processing device that manages a charging processing on the image forming apparatus. The image forming...
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7738808 |
Methods and systems for imaging device concurrent account use with remote authorization
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for allowing a plurality of concurrent users to use a single imaging device account.
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7734209 |
Imaging device with click count fragmentation
An imaging device utilizes click count fragmentation to provide separate click counts for service and billing purposes. Click count fragmentation maintains uninterrupted service counts and derives...
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7715030 |
Printing apparatus and print restrictions management system for inquiring whether changing print restrictions is authorized
An upper limit of allowed print count is set for each user requesting print jobs, and a multi function printer includes: (i) a schedule transmission requesting section for acquiring schedule...
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7686525 |
Printing system
A print controlling method in a print controlling apparatus for controlling printing processing by using printing limitation information indicating printing limitation, including an obtaining step...
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7689485 |
Generating accounting data based on access control list entries
Methods, apparatus, and other mechanisms are disclosed for generating accounting or other data based on that indicated in access control lists or other specifications, and typically using...
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7684720 |
Machine integrated semi-automated service credit for a metered device
A metered device includes a printing system for generating billable and non-billable electrostatographic images. The device includes a billing meter configured to store usage data related to the...
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7664419 |
Work flow management apparatus and work flow management method
An apparatus manages a usage amount associated with each of a plurality of functions included in a work flow. The work flow is executed after it is determined whether an operation of each step...
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7649639 |
Device usage limiting method, apparatus and program
A usage limiting method for a device executing a job generated by a driver, in which a driver corresponding to a device manages a usage state of the device, and when the usage state agrees with a...
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7649640 |
System and method of processing print jobs
A method of processing print jobs includes receiving two or more print jobs and organizing the two or more print jobs into one or more job groups that have modifiable group attributes. The method...
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7564575 |
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus
It is possible to print a test page or a set page held originally in a controller regardless of printing limitation, even when a division management function works. A printer controller judges...
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