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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070019220 | Image forming apparatus and program An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image trailing edge position determination device which determines an image data trailing edge position in a full bleed printing mode, an image data generating device which generates image data in which a position determined by... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070008553 | Method and apparatus for controlling output timing of video data A method and apparatus for controlling output timing of video data for image formation are provided. The method for controlling the output timing of the video data includes counting a generation time of a horizontal synchronization signal HSYNC; comparing the counted ti... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20070002341 | Image Forming Device An image forming device comprises a printer having a color mode and a monochromatic mode and a display unit which displays an operation screen. The image forming device holds identification information of a division to which a user belongs, the identification informatio... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060279784 | Handheld printer A handheld printer that provides an appropriate application of ink to a print medium without a bulky and complex mechanical system for positioning a print head with respect to the print medium. A handheld printer according to the present teachings includes a navigation ... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060274377 | Image alignment method and image forming apparatus employing the same An image alignment method and an image forming apparatus employing the same are provided. The apparatus includes a test mark detector for detecting first and second test marks printed on a printing medium, an encoder output pulse generator for generating encoder output ... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060227352 | Printing press simulator A printing press simulator is integrated into a control desk of a printing press, it being possible for input data to be predefined by an operator on an input device of the control desk during the simulation. A simulation unit of the printing press simulator simulates t... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060227372 | Print controller, control method therefor and program A printer controller performs processing of a print job by a processor which realizes various processings by executing a program, and by a hardware circuit which interacts with the processor. A part of hardware circuit is configured as a determination circuit which dete... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060221382 | Supporting a filter pipeline for a spooling module Supporting a filter pipeline for a spooling module includes a spooling module loading a print processor, and the print processor loading a filter pipeline having a plurality of filters. Each of the plurality of filters performs one or more processing functions on the pr... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060187489 | Controlling timing for starting image formation Exemplary embodiments provide an apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of controlling a timing for starting image formation such that when forming a preceding image and a following image, a timing for starting formation of the following i... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060187473 | Image forming apparatus and method with improved capabilities of correcting image magnification error An image forming apparatus and method that detects a light beam deflected by a polygon mirror at least at two separate locations on the line in the horizontal scanning direction, measures the difference in time of passage between these locations, makes a comparison betw... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060181717 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, at the time of print recording of a set of image data to a plurality of recording sheets, by the use of a recording sheet interval that is an interval between a position where print recording of a recording sheet of the plurality of record... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060152743 | Image recorder A sheet is wound up on a frictional carrier drum having a circumferential length longer than a sheet length so that the length of the wound-up sheet is a quarter or more of the circumferential length, and contact elements for pressing the sheet against the frictional ca... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060139662 | Program stored in medium readable by computer for measuring optimum feed amount to RFID antenna, feed amount measuring method, and printer having RFID read/write function A program executed by a computer for measuring an optimum feed amount to an RFID antenna from a print standby position of a printer which reads and writes data from/on an RFID tag by feeding a label or tag containing an RFID tag, and then prints on the label surface by ... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060109496 | System and method for detecting transponders used with printer media A calibration apparatus for determining a location of a transponder supported by a printer media. The calibration apparatus uses a transceiver to attempt to read, write or otherwise communicate with the transponder. Controller logic of the calibration apparatus uses suc... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060098216 | Image forming apparatus and program product An image forming apparatus including: a speed information detection unit detecting speed information corresponding to a rotational speed of a scanner motor; a first judgment unit judging if the scanner motor has arrived at a first reference speed being lower than a rota... | 05/11/2006 |
| 20060087664 | Inter-device media handler An inter-device media handler is configured to handle a print job in a print system having two or more media processing devices, such as a printer and a laminator. A sensor is configured to sense orientation of media buffered between the first media processing device an... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060082795 | Light scanning unit assembly, electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the same, and method of adjusting scanning line skew A light scanning unit assembly, an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the light scanning unit assembly, and a method of adjusting a scanning line skew. The light scanning unit assembly includes a frame, a primary light scanning unit and at least one s... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20060082796 | Method and apparatus for printing image at a print speed determined by the number of printing lines Image data is printed by a printing apparatus by calculating the number of print lines of image data to be printed, determining a print speed of the image data according to the calculated number of print lines, and printing the image data at the print speed. When image ... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20060078230 | Apparatus, method, or storage medium for image processing The present invention provides an image printing apparatus in which the consistency between image files and a print information file can be held and also the efficiency of user operation can be enhanced. When an instruction to delete the relevant one of image files whic... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060039015 | Tandem continuous paper printer A tandem continuous paper printer includes: a first printer engine; a second printer engine; and a printer controller; and performing tandem printing by performing printing using the second printer engine on a paper that has been printed on by the first printer engine, ... | 02/23/2006 |
| 20060028660 | Encoder of an image forming apparatus An encoder of an image forming apparatus includes an encoder scale positioned along a movement path of a carriage that has a recording/reading head mounted thereon and reciprocates along the movement path, at least one sensor to measure displacement of the carriage with... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060017943 | Character-information processing method, character-information processing apparatus, program, and storage medium In a character-information processing method, a candidate alternative having relative positional information including at least the front-and-rear relation of ink-characters and braille, which are printed and embossed, respectively, on the same sheet, is stored as one o... | 01/26/2006 |
| 20050280842 | Wide gamut film system for motion image capture A film-based image capture and processing system for producing preferred film-based image looks that include a scan-only film having reproduction contrast that increases scanning signal-to-noise ratio subject to digitization bit-depth limitations to obtain additional sc... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050219560 | Methods and systems for processing documents of a production run Methods and systems for processing documents of a production run are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving pages of one or more documents of a production run in a print environment; and applying individual machine-readable identifiers to individual ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050206917 | Systems and methods for providing load balance rendering for direct printing Systems and methods for rendering a document in a native format at an imaging device using a host service for rendering into printer ready data. Documents/images are despooled to an imaging device in their native format for printing, wherein the imaging device includes ... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050200862 | Method and device for controlling objects in synchonicity with a moving material web The invention relates to a method for controlling objects in synchronicity with a moving material web comprising the following method steps: Printing a mark pattern onto the material web, the mark pattern consisting of elements having different brightness values and/or ... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050200861 | Print system, printer host, print support program and print method When a continuous borderless printing is carried out, in order to reduce a difference between an image region displayed on a screen and an image region as a print result, a print system according to the present invention is directed to a system which carries out the con... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050078324 | Method and system for using an optical sensor array to control a labeling device A method for using an optical sensor array to control a labeling device includes scanning a surface texture of an imageable media with the optical sensor array, collecting surface data corresponding to the surface texture of the imageable media, and controlling the labe... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050073721 | Form recognizing apparatus, form recognizing method, program and storage medium A form recognizing apparatus, a form recognizing method and a form recognizing program for easily and precisely recognizing whether or not a form including multiple pages corresponds to any of multiple registered forms are disclosed. A form is registered. The registered... | 04/07/2005 |
