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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7580664 | System and method for positioning one or more stripper fingers (in a fusing system) relative to an image A fuser stripping subsystem for use with a fusing system is provided. In one embodiment, at least one movable stripper finger is disposed adjacent a fusing assembly in a first position. Assuming a selected condition is met, the at least one movable stripper finger i... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7433644 | Blade brush cleaner A photoconductor belt cleaning system is described. This system can utilize in one embodiment one cleaning brush and a cleaning blade, and in a second embodiment, two cleaning brushes, brush 1 and brush 2, with a cleaning blade. In the second embodimen... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431213 | Barcode printing system A printing system including an interpreter with an interpreter program is provided. The interpreter converts each one of multiple print jobs from a job language format to a printable format for consumption by a printer. At least one of the multiple print jobs includ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 6738080 | Message management system for a user interface of a multifunctional printing system A document processing control system with a graphical user interface having a display is provided. The document processing system further includes a memory manager for determining whether the information of the information set is of a first type or a second type. Th... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6504621 | System for managing resource deficient jobs in a multifunctional printing system A queue management system for managing a queue in a printing system is provided. The printing system is provided with a first set of resources for processing jobs and a job including a second set of resources required to process the job is introduced to t... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6353899 | Fault management system for a multifunctional printing machine There is provided a fault management system for a printing system having a memory for storing a first set of attribute values and a second set of attribute values. The fault management system includes a user interface with a display screen upon which a se... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6069624 | Message management system for a user interface of a multifunctional printing system There is provided a system for a multifunctional printing system which controls a manner in which status message sets are displayed on a display screen of a corresponding user interface. As contemplated, a first service attribute designating set of inform... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5995721 | Distributed printing system There is provided a document processing system including at least one document reproduction apparatus and managing on-demand output of a document job. The document job is characterized by a set of job attributes with each job attribute relating to a manne... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5970222 | Memory management system for printing a print job with limited capacity There is provided a method for a producing prints from a print job with a plurality of electronic pages divided into a first print job segment having a first number of electronic pages and a second print job segment having a second number of electronic pa... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5970223 | Job interrupt system for multifunctional printing system A method of interrupting a job currently in the process of being printed from a print queue of a multifunctional printing system with an interrupt job having its origin in one of a first service or a second service is provided. The job currently in the pr... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960167 | Printer configuration system A method for automatically configuring a printer in a network is provided. In practice, an unconfigured printer is communicatively coupled to the network and begins transmitting an advertising protocol. In turn, an entry, varying as a function of the adve... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956698 | Information broker for printing system There is disclosed a method for use in a printing system for producing copies or prints in which billing is developed for a customer of the printing system for the produced copies or prints on a basis of a set of accounting information accumulated and sto... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5946458 | Network printing system for responding to remote print-related requests A printing system disposed in a local or wide area network in which one of a plurality of queries is transmitted from a client to a server for obtaining a set of information including both a file with static information and a subset of dynamic information... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5930465 | Printing system with enhanced print service capability An improvement for a printing system with a first document job server communicating with a second document job server is provided. As contemplated, a document job is provided to the first document job server and a document processing system communicates w... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5923826 | Copier/printer with print queue disposed remotely thereof A printing system with a digital reproduction system communicating with a remote document processing station by way of a print server is provided. The printing system includes a first queue of first jobs to be executed with the digital reproduction system... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5920685 | Printing machine with merging/annotating/signaturizing capability A printing system, for merging a scanned image with a merge image to produce a composite image, is provided. The printing system includes a memory for storing the merge image, in the form of a first set of image data, and a decompression device for decomp... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5917996 | System for printing tamper-resistant electronic form characters A system for single-pass printing of a tamper-resistant, electronic form character on a print media sheet is provided. The system includes a printing subsystem and a character generation subsystem communicating with the printing subsystem. The character g... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5898821 | Printing system with halftone substitution capability There is a provided method for use with a printing system in which a second halftone pattern is selectively substituted for a first halftone pattern. The printing system preferably buffers one or more of print jobs and places each of the one or more print... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898592 | Sheet delivery control system A method for a sheet handling system where a controller communicates with a mailbox bin subsystem having a plurality of print receiving bins is provided. The plurality of bins are grouped into a first print receiving bin set, a second print receiving bin ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5872569 | Apparatus and method for programming and/or controlling output of a job in a document processing system A system, with a screen display, and an application server, is provided. Preferably, the application server registers one of a plurality of metaphor elements with a set of device attributes. A status indicating metaphor or a control metaphor is developed ... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5835820 | Control system for print media sheet tray arrangement of a printing system A print media sheet tray control system for use with a printing system having a controller is provided. The control system includes a print media sheet tray which is configurable, through use of the controller, in a selected one of a first operational mod... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5832193 | Method and apparatus for printing a label on the spine of a bound document A printing system for printing a representation of an image on a first portion of a bound document with the image being disposed on a second portion of the bound document is provided. The printing system includes an input station for generating a print jo... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5831747 | Method and apparatus for borderizing an image in a printing system A method and apparatus for framing an image portion in which a size attribute of the applicable frame is inputted with a user interface and dimensions of the image portion are stored in memory. A processor determines, by reference to the inputted size att... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5825989 | System for diagnosing a source of malfunction resulting from the execution of a print job in a network printing system An apparatus is provided for diagnosing a selected print job transmitted to a printing system, the selected print job causing the printing system to malfunction when the selected print job is processed by the printing system. The diagnosing apparatus incl... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5815764 | Document job routing system for a printing system A system for routing a document job in a printing system with a print engine. The routing system includes a controller providing a set of information including an indication to a user of the printing system that the print engine is busy producing a first ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5790119 | Apparatus and method for programming a job ticket in a document processing system A job ticket programming system, adapted for use in a printing system including a user interface, with a screen display, and an application server is provided. Preferably, the application server registers a first metaphor element corresponding with a firs... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5781711 | Document server for processing a distribution job in a document processing system A document server is provided for processing a distribution job in a document processing system. The document processing system includes a document manager, communicating with first and second virtual services, for coordinating the storing or processing o... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5778183 | Apparatus and method of automatically transmitting event-related information to a user of a network printing system An automatic transmitting system for use in a networked printing system including a first client, second client and server. The automatic transmitting system includes an agent, operatively associated with the server, for maintaining information regarding ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5777882 | Control system for mailboxing arrangement A control system for a sheet handling system having a mailboxing system with a mailbox bin subsystem is provided. The mailbox bin subsystem includes a print receiving bin set with a plurality of print receiving bins, the plurality of print receiving bins ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5761396 | Document server for processing a distribution job in a document processing system A document server is provided for processing a distribution job in a document processing system. The document processing system includes a document manager, communicating with first and second virtual services, for coordinating the storing or processing o... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5760775 | Apparatus and method for programming a job ticket in a document processing system A job ticket programming system, adapted for use in a document processing system including a user interface, with a screen display, and an application server is provided. Preferably, the application server registers a first metaphor element corresponding ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5745883 | Billing system for use with document processing system A billing system for use in a printing system which processes a job with one or more events occurring, relative to the job, as a result of processing the job, is provided. The billing system includes a configurable billing information file including a plu... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5729634 | Document processing system for enhancing halftone images including multiple centered dots A document processing system is provided for processing a job having one or more electronic pages with at least one of the electronic pages including a set of pixels defining a halftone image. Each pixel is disposed in one of a first state and a second st... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5718520 | Apparatus and method for modifying a print job ticket An apparatus for automatically modifying a print job ticket having a plurality of page tickets is provided. Each page ticket is programmed with one or more print job attributes and each print job attribute is associated with one or more print job characte... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5717842 | Method of managing memory allocation in a printing system A method of managing memory allocation in a printing system including the steps of creating a plurality of blocks and designating each block with an identifier. In response to a request from a client, a first set of identifiers, corresponding with a first... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5715381 | Method of creating and managing packages, including multiple documents, in a printing system A method for managing a plurality of print jobs, including a step of creating, in memory, a package, the package including a first reference and a second reference with a first print job being operatively linked with the package by way of the first refere... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5710873 | Apparatus and method for maximizing a rate of image data transfer in a printing system A printing system for processing one or more images of a job is provided. The printing system includes a video bus communicating with both a first transfer module and an image processing section. In operation, a first segment of the job is processed in th... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5710874 | System for managing printing system memory with machine readable code A system for managing printing system memory in which a state of a printing system subsystem is altered between a first state and a second state by reference to a substrate including machine readable code, such as bar code. The system includes a raster im... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5706095 | Apparatus and method for measuring percentage solids in liquid developer material A system for measuring a percentage of the solids in a liquid developer material is provided. The liquid developer material is received by a liquid developer material application member for application of the liquid developer material to a selected surfac... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5694528 | Apparatus and method for diagnosing printing machine operation with facsimile transmitted dialog screens A system, including a printing system and a remote diagnostic facility, is provided for performing a diagnostic operation relative to the printing system by reference to electronic data corresponding with one or more dialog screens stored in a memory of t... | 12/02/1997 |
