An electronic device to operate a camera in a private mode and non-private mode is provided. The electronic device includes a user interface (UI) including a first UI component and a second UI component, and an electronic processor coupled to the UI and the camera. The electronic processor controls the camera to be operated in a private mode in response to detecting an input selecting the first UI component, and a non-private mode in response to detecting an input selecting the second UI component. The electronic processor also tags the images captured in private mode as private images and non-private mode as non-private images. The electronic processor further applies different access policies for accessing the private and non-private images. Further, the first and second UI component are generated as graphical user interface components within a touch screen display of the electronic device.

An image forming apparatus determines, if a restriction mode is set in which image formation by a predetermined cartridge is restricted, whether a cartridge loaded to the apparatus is the predetermined cartridge. If the cartridge loaded to the apparatus is the predetermined cartridge, the apparatus determines whether an accepted job is a specific job of printing information for purchasing a cartridge for which image formation is not restricted. If the accepted job is the specific job, the apparatus executes printing based on the accepted job without restricting the image formation by the predetermined cartridge, and executes printing based on an accepted job if the restriction mode is not set or if the cartridge loaded to the apparatus is not the predetermined cartridge. If the accepted job is not the specific job, the apparatus restricts execution of the image formation by the predetermined cartridge loaded to the image forming apparatus.

An image reading apparatus includes a scanner to read a document, a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner, and circuitry to identify a user, send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition, determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document, search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document, and display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.

An information processing system includes a processor configured to: calculate a charge for an exchange of a final product of a service; and when a first user who orders execution of the service is different from a second user who receives the final product of the service, upon approval of both the first user and the second user, change a user to be charged of the charge for the exchange of the final product of the service from the first user to the second user.

An image forming apparatus, guide providing method thereof, cloud server and error analyzing method thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus may include a scanner configured to scan a script and generate a scan image, a communicator configured to communicate with a cloud server, a display configured display a screen, and a processor configured to control the communicator to transmit the generated scan image to a cloud server, and in response to receiving an error solution guide of the scan image from the cloud server, control the display to display the received error solution guide.

An electronic device to operate a camera in a private mode and non-private mode is provided. The electronic device includes a user interface (UI) including a first UI component and a second UI component, and an electronic processor coupled to the UI and the camera. The electronic processor controls the camera to be operated in a private mode in response to detecting an input selecting the first UI component, and a non-private mode in response to detecting an input selecting the second UI component. The electronic processor also tags the images captured in private mode as private images and non-private mode as non-private images. The electronic processor further applies different access policies for accessing the private and non-private images. Further, the first and second UI component are generated as graphical user interface components within a touch screen display of the electronic device.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a first reader/writer device, a second reader/writer device, and a control unit. The first reader/writer device executes a wireless read/write operation on a wireless tag and is positioned in a sheet conveying path upstream of the image forming unit. The second reader/writer device executes a wireless read/write operation on a wireless tag and is positioned in the sheet conveying path downstream of the image forming unit. The control unit controls the image forming unit, the first reader/writer device, and the second reader/writer device. The control unit controls the second reader/writer device to perform an operation to detect a defect in a wireless tag that is included in a sheet as the sheet is conveyed along the sheet conveying path past the location of the second reader/writer device.

A print control apparatus includes an output unit configured to output, in a case where predetermined text data to be restricted from being output by censorship is determined to be included in input print data, information indicating output restriction of the input print data and information enabling identification of a page including the predetermined text data.

An input/output device that provides a device cooperation service is connected to an input/output service apparatus that provides an input/output service and a computer system that provides a storage service via a network. The input/output device includes a processor configured to execute a program stored in a memory to implement processes of acquiring use restriction information for restricting designation of a condition in a request to the input/output service from the input/output device, and restricting designation of the condition in the request to the input/output service from the input/output device by reflecting the acquired use restriction information on a device cooperation service screen for enabling a user to designate the condition in the request.

If a cartridge restriction mode is set in which execution of image formation by a predetermined cartridge is restricted when a print job is accepted, an image forming apparatus determines whether the accepted job is a specific job. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus permits execution of restricted image formation if it determines that the accepted job is the specific job.