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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120070167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SAME A controller unit determines the operation mode of a device when an error relating to a color cartridge has been detected. When the controller unit determines that the operation mode of the device is a toner replacement priority mode, the controller unit determines whet... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110311243 | REPLACEMENT CONSUMABLE UNIT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A replacement consumable unit management apparatus is provided with: a receiver which receives consumable unit replacement information indicating that one consumable unit of one color or more than one consumable unit of different colors has been replaced with a new one,... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110274444 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a developing device, a toner cartridge to supply a toner to the developing device, a first memory which is provided in the toner cartridge and in which data of a toner characteristic is previously store... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110206391 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Provided is an image forming apparatus that includes: a buffer configured to temporarily store therein toner supplied from a toner cartridge and to be fed to a developing unit; a magnetic reed switch configured to sense magnet variation occurring in a sensing range and ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200340 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a plurality of developing cartridges including respective toner accommodating portions for accommodating toners for forming an image on the image bearing member; a discriminating portion for discriminating col... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110188868 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND A COLOR MATERIAL CONTROLLING METHOD An image forming apparatus comprising: an attachment of a cartridge configured to accommodate a color material; a memory configured to memorize a current cartridge information which shows whether the cartridge attached to the attachment is a first cartridge which accomm... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20100150583 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS In a copier having an image data converter that sets the C density, the M density and the Y density to a density obtained by multiplying the density of black in the RGB system by a CMY mixture ratio and sets the K density to a density obtained by multiplying the density... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20090190937 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTABLE PRINT CONSUMABLE REFILL LEVEL Document processing systems and methods are presented in which a graphical user interface is used to set a user-selectable refill level for a print engine consumable, such as toner, replenisher, paper, etc. Once the user-selectable level has been reached, the user is no... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090185814 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH CONFIGURABLE GRAPHIC DISPLAY OF PRINT CONSUMABLE LEVEL Document processing systems and methods are presented in which the remaining amount of toner, replenisher, or other print consumable in a multi-dispenser bottle consumable supply system is determined, and a user can configure a user interface to graphically display the ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090074431 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a toner-layer filling-rate lowering unit that causes a toner layer of toner images to be formed on an image carrier so that the toner layer has sufficient optical transparency for exposing and the toner-layer filling rate is set relat... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080205909 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM The image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires information on disaster; and a switching unit that switches an operational mode of the image processing apparatus from a first operational mode in which image processing is not performed when there ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080145072 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TOTAL AMOUNT OF TONER IN TRAP The present invention provides an image-forming apparatus capable of reducing the amount of toner at a position at which the trapping is carried out. The apparatus has an image-deformation processing unit where input image data is processed to deform the image shape or ... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080145071 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer readable storage medium storing image forming program An image forming apparatus having a determining unit that analyzes data concerning an image to be printed and determines the order of overlaying toners of in a plurality of colors to be used for printing the particular image, and a designating unit that designates posit... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080124097 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the image forming apparatus. When print data is printed, the remaining amount of toner of each of the CMYK colors is analyzed. When print data is printed, the apparatus analyzes an original color of the print data a... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20050259295 | Printing control device, printing control method, and printing control program product In the course of controlling a printing device that executes printing utilizing a plurality of recording materials in a relationship whereby output color of a particular recording material is substitutable by output color of another recording material, print data that i... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050219602 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus for supplying print data to a printing apparatus that performs printing with recording agents. The image processing apparatus includes a print-data generation unit for generating a predetermined group of print data for continuous printing, ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050213141 | System and method for calculating toner usage A system and method for calculating the toner usage of a multifunction peripheral device using software and the compressed form of the raster image without uncompressing the image. The method enables the calculation of toner usage based on the statistics of actual color... | 09/29/2005 |
