Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20110188870 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a traveling member which carries a toner image; a detection unit which detects an adjustment pattern formed on the traveling member; and a control unit which generates an edge detection signal obtained by b... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182598 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING IMAGE FORMING USING AN ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS An image forming apparatus using an electrophotographic process includes an image forming unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit performs monochrome printing and color printing. The storage unit stores print ratio data that relates to printing ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182600 | IIMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ALIGNMENT PATTERN FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING TONER IMAGE ALIGNMENT PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN Generally, according to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a belt, a sensor whose detection area for a toner image is set on a belt surface, and an image control unit. The image control unit controls the image forming unit to form ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182599 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ALIGNMENT CORRECTING METHOD, AND ALIGNMENT CORRECTING PROGRAM According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a light emitting section; plural photoconductive members on which electrostatic latent images are respectively formed by emitted lights of the light emitting section; a developing section configured to de... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110158663 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PRINTING METHOD A printing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate first print data and second print data based on input print data, a printing unit configured to print the first print data generated by the generation unit on a sheet, an acquisition unit configured,... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110143272 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL METHOD USED IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATIS According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a plurality of image forming units, an image density detection unit, an image density comparison unit, a control unit, a developer residual amount acquisition unit, and an image sta... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110076039 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image-processing device includes a selection unit that selects either a first operation mode or a second operation mode for representing a primary color by a combination of a first developer having a relatively light color of substantially the same hue as the primary... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110065031 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus comprising an exposure device for exposing an image bearing member to light in accordance with monochromatic image data provided by color separation of inputted multi-color image data to form an electrostatic latent image; a control device for... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110058827 | Image forming device A main controlling part is configured to choose and execute either a constant belt speed control which controls a driving motor (a driving source for an intermediate transfer belt) to move the intermediate transfer belt at a predetermined target belt speed or a constant... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110026951 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM PRODUCT An image forming apparatus, includes a transferring belt where a color image is formed; a conveyance belt transferring a recording medium where a monochrome image is transferred; a velocity difference detecting part detecting a velocity difference between the transferri... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110020019 | METHOD FOR SELECTING COLOR TABLES A method for color printing includes the steps of determining a voltage level of electrical power supplied to an electrophotographic printing device having multiple colors of toner, the voltage level defining a fusing capacity, and selecting a color table, stored in mem... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100322646 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of output circuits that output a plurality of pieces of information to an external device. Each of the output circuits includes a synchronization control unit that synchronizes an operation clock of the output cir... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100290798 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE ADJUSTING METHOD INVOLVING FLUCTUATION-INFORMATION ACQURING UNIT AND CONTROL UNIT THAT FORMS GRADATION PATTERN A technique that can stably realize highly accurate image adjustment processing regardless of deterioration in an image forming characteristic and the like is provided. An image forming apparatus that forms, on an image formation medium, a gradation pattern formed as an... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100266300 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus including multiple colored toner image forming units to form multiple colored toner images on a rotatable body, a transfer device to collectively transfer the multiple colored toner images onto a recording medium from the rotatable body, a fix... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100239275 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD An image forming apparatus having a printing section loaded with a first toner group, and a second toner group having a higher chroma value than the first toner group; and a control section which is configured to: convert color information of each part of an image based... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100226665 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINT CONTROL Provided are an image forming apparatus and a method for print control which can carry out printing using appropriate toners without selecting an apparatus to be used from apparatuses loaded with different toner groups depending on a print object. In an image forming ap... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100202789 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus is provided and includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on an image carrier with a transparent material and a coloring material; a controller that controls an order of an image forming with the transparent material and an image for... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100196023 | CONTROL APPARATUS, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM A control apparatus configured to control an image forming system, in forming a transparent image so as to cover color images fixed on a sheet, applies a transparent toner on an area on which an image can be formed and which is other than an area that a user desires to ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100196024 | CONTROL APPARATUS, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM A control apparatus configured to control an image forming system, in forming a transparent toner on a sheet having color toners formed and fixed thereon, applies a transparent toner on an area on which an image can be formed and which is other than an area that a user ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100178069 | Image forming apparatus and color registration method thereof Disclosed herein are an image forming apparatus and a color registration method thereof. The color registration method includes checking a change in a status of an image forming apparatus, selecting color registration patterns having a different length according to the ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100172662 | HIGH ACCURACY MULTI-COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING POSITIONING COLOR IMAGE PATTERNS In a multi-color image forming apparatus including a plurality of color image forming units adapted to form a plurality of different color images, a transfer belt to which positioning color image patterns are transferred by the color image forming units, and an optical ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100098443 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD An image forming apparatus is provided, which forms an image by causing color material to adhere onto a print medium. The apparatus comprises a measurement component configured to measure an output density gradation characteristic of the apparatus, and a calculation com... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100080583 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING COLOR REGISTRATION ERROR THEREOF Disclosed are an image forming apparatus capable of correcting a color registration error and a method for correcting the color registration error. The image forming apparatus can include an image receptor, a light scanning unit having a plurality of light sources and o... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100080582 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an alternative printing unit. The alternative printing unit performs alternative printing of a black image by mixing images of color materials of three colors of cyan, yellow, and magenta. The alternative printing unit includes a colo... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100067928 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A full-color image forming apparatus for forming a toner image for each color on each image carrier, and for transferring the toner image onto a sheet, including: an image forming section for forming a correcting toner image for each color on a portion of an image carri... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100054769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING COLOR IN MULTICOLOR MARKING PLATFORM A multicolor marking platform may include a marking engine with a storage device storing color standard data, a non-black color separation station, marking process stations to selectively mark a color test pattern on a target substrate, and a color control logic with co... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100028028 | Image forming apparatus A tandem-type image forming apparatus in which a photoreceptor for black is controlled to be contacted to an intermediate transfer member and the photoreceptors for colors are controlled to be separated from the intermediate transfer member in a case of forming a black ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100028029 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD This invention has an object to process color balance adjustment at high speed in an image forming apparatus without depending on different feeding speeds for different printing materials. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus of the invention detects color bal... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100008689 | Image forming device, photoconductor drum drive controlling method, and computer-readable recording medium An image forming device has a full-color image formation mode to form a color image using color photoconductor drums and a monochrome image formation mode to form a monochrome image using a photoconductor drum. In the image forming device, a driving unit drives rotation... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090324264 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PRINT JOB A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printing device and system for carrying out a print job with a digital printing machine, preferably with a printing machine that works with a toner, in particular with an electrophotographically operating... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090310988 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSFER OF VIBRATIONS DURING THE PRINTING OF IMAGES ON AN END IMAGE CARRIER In a method for electrographic printing of color images on a final image carrier, charge images of the images to be printed are generated on a charge image carrier and are developed into toner images with toner, the toner images being transferred onto an intermediate ca... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090269089 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING REGISTRATION MARKS In an image forming apparatus for forming a color image by superposing component color images, a control device obtains position data representing a forming position of each of plural registration mark images for the component color images with respect to a positional r... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090263148 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM A control apparatus for controlling an image forming system is provided. The image forming system includes transparent toner image forming device configured to form a transparent toner image on a sheet on which a color toner image has been fixed and includes fixing devi... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090214236 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD A tandem-type image forming apparatus includes a toner mark pattern forming unit configured to form a toner mark pattern; a sensor configured to detect the toner mark pattern; a first determining unit configured to determine presence or absence of color misregistration ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090196636 | Misregistration Amount Detector, Misregistration Amount Detecting Method, and Storage Medium A misregistration amount detector in a tandem image forming apparatus having a conveying body configured to convey paper on which a color image is to be printed is disclosed. The misregistration amount detector includes an image creating part configured to create, on th... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090190940 | Deviation Amount Detecting Device, Deviation Amount Detecting Method, and Computer- Readable Recording Medium A deviation amount detecting device for use in an electrophotographic color image forming device is configured to detect whether a deviation for each of toner images of different colors on a transporting member takes place, based on position information which is stored ... | 07/30/2009 |
