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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120002980 | USING MULTIPLE INPUTS FROM MOBILE DEVICES TO REFINE PRINTING DEVICE LOCATION Methods and printing devices herein establish a current physical position of a printing device and then receive current physical position readings from different portable computing devices (when the portable computing devices or its users are physically interacting with... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002981 | Management server and management method thereof A management server is provided. The management server includes a reception unit which receives information regarding expendable supplies status from at least one image forming apparatus, a storage unit which stores a management condition for each item of expendable sup... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110299859 | Image forming apparatus, host device and print controlling method An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a search unit which broadcasts a search message for searching for a connectable host device, a communication interface unit which receives a response message for notifying that a print job is e... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110217049 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM A print control apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with a server, a print instruction acceptance unit which accepts a print instruction to make a printing apparatus execute printing, a judgment unit which judges whether or not the printing appara... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110182592 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A control apparatus, connected to two image forming apparatuses each forming an image on one of a first face and a second face serving as image forming faces of a continuous recording paper, includes a receiving unit that receives, from each image forming apparatus, inf... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110172961 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD A system of an apparatus collects, from a plurality of forming apparatuses, information about a status of occurrence of an error occurring on the plurality of forming apparatuses and a utilization environment of the plurality of forming apparatuses, executes control, if... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164886 | MONITORING DEVICE SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND MONITORING DEVICE METHOD A monitoring device system that includes a user apparatus, including a monitoring device application, and an image forming apparatus. The user apparatus includes an application information sending unit configured to send application information corresponding to the moni... | 07/07/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110158659 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM HAVING CONSUMABLES-USABILITY DETERMINATION PROGRAM, CONSUMABLES-USABILITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE CONSUMABLES-USABILITY DETERMINATION PROGRAM A computer readable medium has a consumables-usability determination program product stored thereon. The program product directs a portable terminal to perform as: a model-information inputting section for inputting model information indicating a model of an image formi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110142458 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus that reduces a time period during which no image is formed due to a margin in leading end portion, by calculating the margin in leading end portion from position information of an image and moving forward output timing of a /TOP signal accordi... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110129237 | SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREOF A system having an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus includes setting whether the status of the image forming apparatus is immediately confirmed by a user, transmitting a file containing a status log based on the status change of the image ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110085805 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MONITORING SYSTEM FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND OPERATION PROGRAM FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus including a controller configured to switch the security level between a first state and a second state. The first state allows printing by an image forming section of only first print data provided with verification information among print da... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110058822 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image forming system includes image forming apparatuses that communicate with each other via a network. Each of the image forming apparatuses includes a network computer, a power saving controller for applying a power saving control in a first power saving mode in wh... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110038643 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MAINTENANCE INFORMATION OF THE SAME Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: a print processing unit; a fixing unit; a first storage unit to store use frequency information of respective parts forming the print processing unit and the fixing unit and failure information; a wireles... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026942 | MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME A monitoring apparatus receives, according to an occurrence of an event (e.g., error or jam) at an image forming apparatus, a notification of information regarding the event that has occurred. The notification is sent with use of address information of the monitoring ap... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110013915 | CONSUMABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes: a predicting unit that predicts a prediction lifetime of a consumable that is detachably mounted in the image forming apparatus, based on consumption information corresponding to an operation of the image forming apparatus; a connect... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100226662 | Image forming apparatus Provided is an image forming apparatus having a network connecting portion, a control portion, and a status information storage portion. When a status request is sent from an external apparatus while the image forming apparatus is in a power-saving status, based on a co... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100196019 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CARTRIDGE, AND APPARATUS MAIN UNIT A magnet is arranged on an RFID tag to be attached to a cartridge. A Hall element is arranged on a printer-side RFID board in a position corresponding to the magnet. When the cartridge is mounted, a printer-side RFID communication section identifies whether or not the m... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100158543 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS AND STAPLING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image forming apparatus, a host apparatus and a stapling control method thereof, the method including displaying a plurality of selectable jobs; selecting a plurality of the selectable jobs to be stapled together; and stapling the selected jobs together while maintai... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100141994 | Printing Control System A print system in which a printer and a client personal computer are connected to a network. The printer may include a storage unit configured to store a residual quantity information of sheets of paper in a paper feed cassette, a communication unit configured to transm... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100086316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COROTRON CLEANING MANAGEMENT IN AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE A method and apparatus for corotron cleaning management in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input from the corotron cleaning counter, determining if the corotron cleaning counter exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein if i... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100074633 | Image Forming System An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to a network. Each image forming apparatus includes a remaining-toner sensor for detecting remaining amounts of toner in cyan (C), magenta (M), ye... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100054762 | CONTROL METHOD OF HOST DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND HOST DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME A control method of a host device that avoids an error part through a user interface unit to use an image forming apparatus, an image forming system, an image forming apparatus and a host device employing the same, the control method including: requesting error informat... | 03/04/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20090243857 | CONTAINER WITH AN OPENING PROVIDED WITH A RECORDING MEDIUM A container with an opening provided with a recording medium, which is provided for preventing reading of information on the recording medium from the time of factory shipment to the time of use, and which can be set on an external device by the user without forgetting ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090182875 | MONITORING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE MANAGEMENT METHOD There is provided a monitoring apparatus which is capable of efficiently notifying an external host of completion of installation of the monitoring apparatus for image forming apparatuses, and completion of operations carried out for the image forming apparatuses. The m... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090169229 | Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, Image Forming Computer Program, and Computer Readable Storage Medium Containing The Program The image forming apparatus include: a resistance detection section (14) for measuring a volume resistivity of a two component developer (11) on a surface of a developer bearing member (12); a resistance memory section (16) for storing therei... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090041478 | Maintenance Scheduling System, Maintenance Scheduling Method and Image Forming Apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store actual use information of the image forming apparatus and actual use information of a consumable part, and an information transmitting unit configured to transmit the actual use information of the im... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090016743 | Printer Consumable Ordering Direct From Printer A system for enabling ordering of printer supplies directly via a printer. The system provides an option for a user to request value bundled information before placing a printer supply order. By providing the option of requesting value bundled information, a customer ca... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090003846 | HOST APPARATUS CONNECTED TO IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD THEREOF A host apparatus which is connected to an image forming apparatus, the host apparatus includes an image processor to process an image with respect to a printing data, and a controller to check a preset common printing property for two or more printing data, to set a com... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080273882 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF In an image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a monitoring device for monitoring the operating states of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, the operating amount of a part is detected, information about the operating amount is stored in relation to t... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080247767 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRIORITIZED SERVICING OR MAINTENANCE OF NETWORKED PRINTERS Methods and systems are presented for prioritizing service or maintenance of networked printers based on affinities between printers and users determined from job tracking data so that printers shared by large numbers of users or high volume printers used by only one or... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080219681 | DRIVER SYSTEM OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A driver system of image forming apparatuses whose structure is improved to receive a necessary service without additional confirmation by automatically requesting a management service and to improve the efficiency of use of the image forming apparatuses and a method of... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080205908 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, A CONSUMABLES RESIDUAL QUANTITY DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM A terminal apparatus, a consumables residual quantity display program, and a recording medium are disclosed. The terminal apparatus, which is connected to a printing apparatus through a network, includes an acquisition unit for acquiring information about consumables of... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080193146 | MONITORING APPARATUS AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MONITORING APPARATUS AND MONITORING SYSTEM A monitoring apparatus and a monitoring system monitor a person who removed an output sheet for a print job or a copy job from an image forming apparatus that can be used by a plurality of users. With the use of a job-start notification, a job-end notification, and a sh... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080187326 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF A network image forming apparatus and a printing method thereof in an image forming system automatically change print concentration according to a type of print data and printing the print data so as to provide convenience to a user. The printing method of the network i... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080181621 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF It is an object of the invention to provide a management apparatus for an image forming apparatus that can automatically determine an installation location of the image forming apparatus on the basis of individual authentication information according to an access to the... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080145067 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DEVELOPER CONTAINER An image forming apparatus to which a developer container is detachably mountable includes a receiving unit configured to receive, via wireless communication, temperature information detected by a temperature detecting unit, which is disposed in a developer container, f... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080080873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOTE DIAGNOSTICS OF DEVICES A device management system for a plurality of devices, including a data collecting device that acquires device data for one or more of the plurality of devices, and a transmission circuit that transmits the device data to a device management, wherein the device manageme... | 04/03/2008 |
| 20080075475 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image forming system is provided that alleviates throughput reductions and enables reductions in power consumption and lower noise. The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and a plurality of sheet-conve... | 03/27/2008 |
