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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120051776 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING PRINT PRICING ON SELECTIVELY VARYING OPERATING SPEED The present disclosure provides systems and methods for selectively varying the operating speed of an image-forming apparatus. The method includes selecting an identifier specifying a desired operating speed for executing a job on the image-forming apparatus. The method... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110158660 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: a transmission and reception part to receive print data of each of plural pages page by page. through a USB communication interface; a cassette part; a printing part; a paper discharge part; a manual pape... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110135337 | Image forming apparatus and method of charging usage fee of image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus counts a number of sheets to be printed with a limited number of colorants or a limited amount of colorant using an other counter that is provided other than a color counter and a monochrome counter. The counter value of the other counter is a... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110135336 | Image forming apparatus and method of charging usage fee of image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus counts a number of sheets to be printed with a limited number of colorants or a limited amount of colorant using an other counter that is provided other than a color counter and a monochrome counter. The counter value of the other counter is a... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110076044 | Image forming apparatus server connected to image forming apparatus and print charging method thereof Disclosed are an image forming apparatus server connected to an image forming apparatus and a print charging method thereof. A print charging method for at least one image forming apparatus, the method including: setting charging standards for a print usage volume of th... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110026962 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS There is provided an image forming apparatus in which when printing is performed based on an electrophotographic process, counting is performed by a counter for each print operation, and billing corresponding to the kind of the print operation is performed based on the ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100247132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ORDERING OF COLOR TONER BASED ON A SERVICE CONTRACT A system and method for managing customer color orders associated with at least one printer device, including a processor and a supply control module including a series of programmable instructions executable by the processor for: receiving color usage data from the at ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100158547 | PRINT JOB COST ESTIMATE METHOD AND SYSTEM Automatically determining the cost of a printed job on a digital printing press before the job is run. A job control component in the digital front end of the printing press collects and stores the processing information from the job processing components from prior run... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100119249 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM An image forming apparatus comprises a connection unit, a display unit, a detector unit detecting the connection of the vendor to the connection unit and detecting the receipt of at least either one of card insertion and coin insertion by the vendor, a fixing unit, a po... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20090257759 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ORDERING OF PRINTING SUPPLIES BASED ON A SERVICE CONTRACT A system and method for managing customer orders associated with at least one printer device for consumable supplies under a contract. The method includes receiving printer usage data from at least one printer indicative of consumption of at least one consumable supply ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090257771 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BILLING DESTINATION Upon registration of such document data that a general affairs department issues a request to print out the document data to a sales department, the document data is registered in a billing management box designated as a registration destination in an MFP allocated to t... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090238599 | TERMINAL DEVICE, PRINTING CHARGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CHARGING PRINTING COSTS A method of charging printing costs using a printing charging system that is connected to an image forming apparatus, the method including: setting printing costs for each of a plurality of people; generating print data for each person, of the plurality of people, based... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090190948 | Imaging device with click count fragmentation An imaging device utilizes click count fragmentation to provide separate click counts for service and billing purposes. Click count fragmentation maintains uninterrupted service counts and derives from service counts billing counts that more accurately reflect the numbe... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090154949 | PRINTER WITH MODULAR CARTRIDGE PRINTER (1) WITH MODULAR CARTRIDGE made up of a printing module (2) and a modular (3) cartridge, in independent cabinets but in the same printer, being that said modular cartridge can be fiscal or a non-fiscal cartridge. Said printing module (3 | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090142089 | POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, ALLOWING POWER MANAGEMENT OF A PLURALITY OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES When there are a plurality of candidate image forming apparatuses that are to be turned ON, a CPU refers to an MFP wearout degree table and obtains wearout degree of each candidate. Then, the CPU determines whether there is any candidate of which wearout degree is lower... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090080929 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHARGING TO PRINT DOCUMENT THEREIN A printing system and a method of charging to print a document therein. The printing system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The sever includes a storing part in which reference information on a document to be printed, a host communication part which receives... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20080310875 | Machine integrated semi-automated service credit for a metered device A metered device includes a printing system for generating billable and non-billable electrostatographic images. The device includes a billing meter configured to store usage data related to the generation of the electrostatographic images. A CPU or processing unit is c... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080240765 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MARKET SUPPORT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM An image forming apparatus for reducing time required for adjusting the image forming conditions and transport conditions and minimizing the number of recording material used for the adjustment. Image forming conditions and transport conditions for the recording materia... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080232840 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME The number of prints necessary for execution of a print job of a storage type, together with the surplus number of prints, is calculated. A difference B between an upper limit value A and the number C of prints is calculated during execution of a print job. When there i... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080181649 | Method for analyzing print/copy job A method for analyzing a print/copy job is disclosed. In this method, an actual page count of a print/copy job is recorded, and a total toner coverage for the print/copy job is compiled. Then, a total toner coverage page count is obtained via a computation using a prede... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080159767 | Image forming apparatus and an accounting method therein An image forming apparatus (10) for forming an image on a recording medium (30) such as a recording paper by applying ink is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ink discharging unit (20) that applies ink onto the recording medium to form the image;... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080159768 | APPROPRIATE PRINTER SELECTION SIMULATION SYSTEM, INK CONSUMPTION AMOUNT SIMULATION DEVICE, AND COST SERVER An appropriate printer selection simulation system for selecting an appropriate printer providing more expressive output with lower running cost is disclosed. The system includes a user terminal, a printer, and a server connected to each other via a network. The printer... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080107440 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS There is provided an image forming apparatus in which when printing is performed based on an electrophotographic process, counting is performed by a counter for each print operation, and billing corresponding to the kind of the print operation is performed based on the ... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080101815 | Image Forming Apparatus An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may be for printing sheets on the basis of a print instruction input therein, including: a limit quantity storage unit storing a predetermined limit quantity; an accounting storage unit storing an acco... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080089709 | Image forming apparatus One embodiment of the present invention is provided with an image information storage unit, an image information processing unit, an actual image forming unit, an image information control unit that controls transfer of image information between each of the units, a pow... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080063424 | Image forming apparatus, print control apparatus, and print control method In a print control system including image forming apparatus equipped with print device, sheet supply device with sheet supply counters and sheet ejection device with a sheet ejection counter, sheet number information including the number of supplied sheets from each tra... | 03/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 20080056753 | Marking system print pal This is a method for permitting an employee (user) authority to use his employer's marking apparatus for personal reasons. The supplier (provider) of the marking apparatus for example, Xerox Corporation, makes arrangements with the employee (with employer's approval) to... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20070297273 | DRIVE SYSTEM FOR A PLASTICIZING UNIT OF AN INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE A drive system for a plasticizing unit of an injection molding machine includes at least one drive motor which is operatively coupled to a plasticizing screw of the plasticizing unit for providing power for axial movement and rotation of the plasticizing screw in a plas... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070299752 | EXPENSE RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE WITH SMART DATA ENTRY An expense recovery system for a digital MFD in the form of a modification to the application program interface of the MFD to allow input of identifiers for the user, the client and the job and to transmit this information and other transaction data to a host computer f... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070196121 | Charging system, image forming apparatus, information processing device, charging method, and program The charging system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, and an information processing device that manages a charging processing on the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus detects a trouble occurring on the image forming apparatus, and tra... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070160378 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CHARGING PROCESS APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM This invention enables users of image forming apparatuses to be charged fairly by preventing the users from being charged for consumable supply usage consumed because of a reason that the user is not responsible for such as paper jamming. The image forming system accord... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070092281 | Image forming device The device of the invention comprises an advertisement image storage unit 32 for storing a plurality of advertisement images (add-on images) and the discount rate predefined for each of the advertisement images, a display control unit 22 for generating a l... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070059014 | Image forming apparatus and setting method In an image forming apparatus, a controller acquires data such as operation start time and operation end time of the image forming apparatus, and records it in an acquisition database. The controller fetches data recorded in the acquisition database to calculate a frequ... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070059015 | Monitoring device for image forming device, control method and control program of monitoring device, and computer-readable storage medium Provided is a coverage monitor for monitoring a utilization scale of an MFP which forms an image on a sheet with color toner. The coverage monitor comprises: (i) a periodic coverage updating section for generating a periodic coverage which denotes a coverage from a cert... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070053709 | Image forming apparatus The present invention can print out operating instructions, HELP documents, the latest image forming apparatus information, support and maintenance information, advertisements about new models and services, and the like without incrementing a charging counter. Without c... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070031160 | Image processing apparatus capable of carrying out image processing such that charged amount does not exceed upper limit In a printing apparatus, a charged amount to be charged when printing is carried out under a predetermined condition is calculated in advance. If the charged amount is lower than an upper limit of the charged amount set by a user, printing is performed. Meanwhile, if th... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20070003306 | Adjustment of print job to reduce color toner usage It is determined whether a print job to be output on a color laser-printing device is to have reduced color toner usage. In response to determining that the print job is to have reduced color toner usage, the print job is adjusted so that the print job consumes less col... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060233562 | Expense recovery system for multi-function device with smart data entry An expense recovery system for a digital MFD in the form of a modification to the application program interface of the MFD to allow input of identifiers for the user, the client and the job and to transmit this information and other transaction data to an host computer ... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060198653 | Methods and systems for peripheral accounting Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for providing external accounting functions for a peripheral device. ... | 09/07/2006 |
