Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186823 | Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording method including: (i) exposing a surface of a recording medium to non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma so as to hydrophilize the surface of the recording medium, and (ii) applying a stimulus to an ink composition so as to eject the ink composi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8182080 | Image forming method An image forming method includes: moisture-controlling one surface of an inkjet recording medium having an air permeability of 300 seconds or more; feeding the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium onto a conveyance path in a state where the moisture-controlle... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182078 | Inks, printing methods and printing devices There is provided a printing device that includes an ink applicator and a shaping fluid outlet adapted to dispense a shaping fluid onto curable ink applied by the applicator. The printing device may further include energy emitting source used to at least partially c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182079 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus An image forming method includes the steps of: depositing an aggregating treatment liquid containing 10% or more and 90% or less of a water-soluble high-boiling-point organic solvent having an SP value of 30 or lower onto a recording medium; starting drying of the a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177348 | Direct write and additive manufacturing processes A Direct Write method of forming components on a substrate by deposition of ink by thermally curing the ink in situ, which method overcomes the need for curing by placing the substrate in an oven. The curing is performed in an exemplary embodiment using an induction... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177349 | Image forming apparatus and method The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device which forms an image on a recording medium; a transparent UV ink droplet ejection device which ejects and deposits droplets of transparent UV ink onto the recording medium; a UV light irradiation device w... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177350 | Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method A liquid ejecting apparatus includes (A) a carriage that moves a nozzle ejecting a liquid which is cured by irradiation of an electromagnetic wave in a moving direction, (B) a first irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172390 | Image forming device and image forming method An image forming device that includes a first moisture amount derivation component, a drying component, a storage component, and a control component is provided. The storage component stores drying information, including information representing a pre-drying moistur... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167422 | Hybrid printing method using movable pallet A hybrid printing method using a movable pallet is provided. The movable pallet is used to apply various desired inks on the surface of fabric products and the like. A printing process, a digital printing process, a multicolor foiling process and a multi-color flock... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162469 | Method for achieving uniform media temperature and size throughout the pre-heat zone An imaging device includes a source of a substantially continuous web of media, and a web transport system configured to transport the continuous web from the source along a web path having a print zone. At least one printhead arranged along the web path in the prin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162468 | System and method for registering color ink jet printing in a mailing machine Printing systems including top registration plates and electromagnetic-curable inkjet print heads are described including methods for setting the intensity of the related electromagnetic sources. The printer includes a top registration plate that includes a pluralit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162470 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes a printing head configured to eject solvent ink from nozzles of the printing head on a medium at a printing position. A medium is made of a polyvinyl chloride film. The solvent ink includes an organic pigment of from 3 to 7 weight %, a res... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8152291 | Device for printing two-dimensional parts, particularly plastic cards A device for printing two-dimensional parts, particularly plastic substrates, preferably plastic cards, having a depot comprising the parts to be imprinted, a printing station with a printing device, and a transport device for transporting the parts through the prin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152290 | Customization of curable ink prints by molding A system has a print head to dispense ink onto a print surface to form a printed image, a molding surface to contact the ink to form an informational image in at least the surface of the ink, and a radiation source to solidify the ink into the printed and informatio... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8142009 | Inkjet printer and printing method An inkjet printer including an inkjet head unit having inkjet heads for ejecting UV inks, an UVLED unit having a UVLED for emitting ultraviolet light, and a control unit for controlling the inkjet head unit and the UVLED unit. The control unit controls the inkjet he... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8136935 | Inkjet printer and ink dryer An inkjet printer includes a plurality of guide walls and a plurality of choke portions. Each of the plurality of guide walls is arranged substantially in parallel with a feeding direction of a medium to provide a guide wall clearance between the plurality of guide ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8123347 | Method of forming images using curable ink with gellant Disclosed herein are methods of using inks with gellants, that can form a gel state, as receivers for particle materials. The inks are liquid when jetted, but quickly enter a tacky/semi-solid/gel state when cooled below ink gel temperature on a substrate and prior t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123348 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a recording unit that forms an image on a recording medium, a recording medium conveying unit, which confronts the recording unit, and which includes a recording medium supporting surface including a hole, a suction unit that draws air... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123346 | Ultraviolet curing inkjet printer, printing method used in ultraviolet curing inkjet printer, and head An ultraviolet curing inkjet printer includes a first ejecting device, a first ultraviolet light irradiation device, and a second ultraviolet light irradiation device. The first ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to emit ultraviolet light of a first ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118420 | Contactless ink leveling method and apparatus A method of leveling ink that is printed on a substrate includes establishing a thermal gradient across a thickness of the substrate, the thermal gradient characterized in that it is less than a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink across most of the substrate... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109625 | Application apparatus and inkjet recording apparatus An application apparatus has: a supply device which supplies a liquid in which a treatment agent having a prescribed function is dissolved; an application device which applies the liquid supplied from the supply device, onto a medium; and a condensing device which c... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109624 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a calculating device, a waiting time calculating device, and a print controlling device. The calculating device divides print data to be printed onto a recording medium into a plurality of zones along a conveyance direction of the... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104884 | Coating agent for UV curable inkjet printing A coating agent for use in UV curable inkjet printing using nonaqueous UV ink. The coating agent includes a main component that is an organic-inorganic nanocomposite, and the coating agent is configured to form an undercoat before the inkjet printing or to form a fi... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100522 | Recording apparatus and recording method of recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes: a supporting member that has a supporting surface for supporting a target to which a liquid is ejected; a heating apparatus that heats the supporting member; a transport unit that transports the target from an upstream side of the sup... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8087770 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a supply unit that supplies liquid recipient particles to receive liquid; a conveyance unit that conveys the liquid recipient particles supplied by the supply unit; a discharge unit that discharges liquid droplets to the liquid re... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8079697 | Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method Clogging of an ink-jetting opening is more reliably prevented, by inkjet recording apparatus 1 having recording heads 3a-3d each having an ink-jetting surface 30 in which an ink-jetting opening for jetting photo-curable ink ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075127 | Printing apparatus, program, storage medium, method, and ink A printing apparatus having an ink-jet head which discharges an ink toward a medium, a UV light source, a movement mechanism which moves the medium, and a controller. When the printing mode is selected, the controller controls the ink-jet head to discharge the ink t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070281 | Ink-jet authentication mark for a product or product packaging A method of ink-jet printing including, in order, the steps of: a) providing a coated ink-receiving layer containing a polymeric binder and a curable compound; b) at least partially curing the coated ink-receiving ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070282 | Active-energy ray curable ink-jet recording apparatus An active-energy ray curable ink-jet recording apparatus includes: an active-energy ray irradiation source; a plurality of full-line ink-jet heads which eject a liquid functional material that is curable by an active-energy ray, onto a recording medium which is scan... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070283 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method The image forming apparatus, comprises: a plurality of ejection heads which eject liquid containing, a first ultraviolet curing initiator having spectral absorption characteristics at least in a first wavelength range, a second ultraviolet curing initiator which has... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061833 | Inkjet printer, printing method and ink dryer An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head, an electromagnetic-wave supplier, a wave guide, and a ventilator. The inkjet head is configured to eject ink onto a surface of a medium. The electromagnetic-wave supplier is configured to generate electromagnetic waves. The... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8052273 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus has an ink jet head mounted for movement in a scanning direction to record on a surface of a recording medium using an active ray curing type ink. An active ray irradiation device is disposed adjacent to the ink jet head for irradiatin... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052274 | Ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet copier and recording medium A containing member contains a recording medium which has a base member and granular material coated on both sides of the base member, and roughness of the surfaces of the coated granular material is smaller than the roughness of the base member. A printing unit inc... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047645 | Recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus A recording apparatus includes a support drum that rotates while supporting a recording medium on a support surface thereof. A guide axis extends in parallel with a rotation axis of the support drum along the support surface. A carriage that is guided by the guide a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042929 | Ink jet recording apparatus Disclosed an ink jet recording apparatus for recording images in a recording medium having an ink absorbability, including: a recording head including a nozzle for jetting a photocurable ink onto the recording medium; and a light irradiation device to apply light to... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8038283 | Ink-jet recording apparatus The invention is directed to an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a recording medium transport unit as defined herein; a full-line ink-jet head as defined herein; and an ultraviolet light illumination unit as defined herein, wherein the ultraviolet light illumi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038281 | Media preheater A heater for preheating media in an imaging device including a substantially planar polymeric carrier having an exterior surface. A channel is recessed into the exterior surface of the carrier. A resistance heating element is disposed in the channel, the resistance ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038282 | UV module A UV module of this invention has connection block (optional), connection end cap, shutter, and exhaust end cap assemblies. The connection block has doweled or tapered bayonets for facilitated installation and removal of the UV module. The connection end cap has a d... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033660 | Active-energy ray curable ink-jet recording apparatus An active-energy ray curable ink-jet recording apparatus includes: an active-energy ray irradiation source; a plurality of full-line ink-jet heads which eject a liquid functional material that is curable by an active-energy ray, onto a recording medium which is scan... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8033661 | Method for inkjet printing with light-curable ink A method for inscribing a substrate with an inkjet printer using a light-curing ink. The method includes traversing, by the carriage, to the first end position at a first travel speed. The light-curing ink is sprayed-on along an inscription row onto the substrate us... | 10/11/2011 |
