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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110318041 | CONTROLLING SHEET SYNCHRONIZATION IN A DIGITAL PRINTING SYSTEM A calibration procedure for the synchronization of photoreceptor belt seams of tandem marking devices at system cycle-up. The procedure allows for images projected upon equivalent image panels relative to the belt seams of the tandem engines to be printed on the same sh... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110236050 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE AND AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE FOR APPLICATION OF THE METHOD The present invention relates to a method for selectively removing magnetically attractable toner particles from an image-forming device, the image-forming device comprising a cleaning magnet system, configured to provide an activatable second magnetic field, the method... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110150520 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM An image forming system including first and second image forming apparatuses that includes a first image forming unit configured to form an image on a first surface of recording paper, a discharging unit configured to discharge the recording paper on which the image is ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20100329724 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A motor control apparatus that controls a DC motor includes a detection unit configured to detect angular speed of the DC motor, a driven member configured to be driven by the DC motor, and a control unit configured to increase, when starting to drive the DC motor, a co... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100296829 | ENGINE SYNCHRONIZATION WITH A SMALL DELTA TIME BETWEEN ENGINES A method of synchronizing the timing of a plurality of physically coupled print engines using a small delta time increment. According to the first mode of practice, the second electrophotographic module, designated as E2, is started at a slower operating speed th... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20090142088 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus of the present invention is arranged so that plural sheets of paper are conveyed to a main conveying path and a sub-conveying path at the time of double-side image formation. In performing double-side image formation jobs on plural sets of she... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090051105 | Sheet separating apparatus and method A sheet separating mechanism and a method of separating sheets is provided to prevent the multifeeding of sheets into printers or copiers. The sheet separating mechanism provides a first nip and a second nip for feeding a series of sheets therebetween. The first nip can... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080219720 | Image forming apparatus A moving unit is made to perform a contacting operation at least two times. The contacting operation includes relatively moving an endless belt and an image carrier so that the endless belt and the image carrier to come in contact with each other.... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080187344 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FEEDING OF SHEETS An image forming apparatus, to which a paper-output device for processing a sheet after image formation is attached, includes a paper-feed unit for feeding a sheet for image formation; a detection unit for detecting a type of the sheet fed from the paper-feed unit; an i... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080063423 | WORK FLOW MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND WORK FLOW MANAGEMENT METHOD An apparatus manages a usage amount associated with each of a plurality of functions included in a work flow. The work flow is executed after it is determined whether an operation of each step included in the work flow can be executed or not.... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20050008387 | Information processing apparatus and method, and print control program The claimed invention is directed to an information processing apparatus for adding additional information to each page of a document, which comprises a print setup unit for setting a binding position for a document; an additional information setup unit for setting a po... | 01/13/2005 |
