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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7483045 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus in which it is possible to set proper correction data by eliminating an erroneous operation of an operator is constructed. A code indicating the type of used printing paper P is formed on a test chart TC. When the correction data is generated, a... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7436540 | Image recorder having more than one recording head and image recording system containing the image recorder A control part comprises a division location setting part for setting a division location based on an image data; a scan start position setting part for setting scan start positions of recording heads based on the division location; an image data division part for d... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7046732 | Video coloring book A decomposed original video sequence includes one or more original camera-motion layers and zero or more original fixed-frame layers decomposed from an original video sequence. The decomposed original video sequence is edited by editing at least one of the original ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6959983 | Printer with microelectromechanical printhead having electro-thermal actuators incorporating heatsinks A printer includes a microelectromechanical printhead incorporating a plurality of ink ejection nozzles. Each of the ink ejection nozzles includes an ink well to contain printing fluid and an electrically operated thermal ink ejection actuator assembly. The ink ejec... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6914619 | Device for driving an endless belt and image forming apparatus using the same A device for driving an endless belt of the present invention includes a drive roller and a roller pair adjoining the drive roller at a side where a photoconductive element is positioned and contacting the belt. The eccentricity of the drive roller and that of the r... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6798430 | Tandem type color image forming device having a plurality of process cartridges arrayed in running direction of intermediate image transfer member A tandem type color image forming device having a plurality of process cartridges each being detachable from a frame. An intermediate image transfer belt extends vertically, and the process cartridges are arrayed in the vertical direction and supported by the frame.... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6577835 | Powder image transfer system with heat exchanger An image transfer system comprising an endless belt serving as an image carrier and passing through a first processing station where it is maintained at a low temperature and through a second processing station where it is maintained at a higher temperatu... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6342689 | Heat developing method for heat developable image recording material A heat developing method conveying, to make a heating processing on a heater surface, a heat developable image recording material is disclosed in which an image forming layer and a protection layer are formed using a polymer latex as a binder on one side ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6339211 | Reducing a temperature differential in a fixing device A temperature differential over a length of a fuser can result from a thermal load applied to the fuser by media having a dimension, corresponding to a longitudinal axis of the fuser, less then the length of the fuser. The temperature on regions of the su... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6265693 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus comprises a heat-developing section for heat-developing a latent image formed on a photo/heat-sensitive material sheet in which antistatic agent is added, and conveying rollers made of resin for conveying the photo/heat-sensit... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6055396 | Laser printer having a distance and tension controller A laser printer which includes a photosensitive belt of a loop type having a seam at a portion where the ends overlap. The photosensitive belt circulates around a driving roller, a steering roller and a transfer backing roller, as well as passes between t... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6052144 | Image printing A printer to print images on a continuous web. The printer has a print station at which the images are printed on the web. A web transport transports the web in a lengthwise direction through the print station. The web transport including a slack loop sta... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6028614 | Cleaning and lapping apparatus and method for electrographic printers For cleaning the print heads of an electrographic printer, a cleaning strip (900) or a lapping strip (1000) is applied to a medium (10) which moves through the printer. The strip (900 or 1000) is first positioned between fiducial marks printed on the medi... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5995717 | Image forming apparatus A color copy machine is equipped with four image forming sections for forming images of different color components based on image data items relating to separated color components. A conveyance belt is provided below each image forming section. To avoid f... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5995124 | Color electrophotographic printer with belt control A color electrophotographic printer having a printing process which records a toner image of one color or two colors in a pixel by one exposure. The color electrophotographic printer includes a memory which stores exposure data corresponding to respective... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5914732 | Head drive waveform generation device and head drive waveform generation method A head drive waveform generation device and a head drive waveform generation method that do not require large-capacity memory during mounting on a printer are disclosed. The head drive waveform generation device generates and outputs, based on head drive ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5774158 | Device for direct electrostatic printing (DEP) comprising rows of smaller and larger sized apparatus A device for use in the technique of direct electrostatic printing (DEP) on an intermediate or final substrate is described, comprising: a receiving member support 5 a printhead structure 6 having control electrodes 6a on its back side, in combination with ape... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5774153 | Digital precision positioning system A digital positioning system has a carrier in the form of a belt with a work surface and arrays of first and second conductors extending under that surface generally parallel to one another, each second conductor being spaced close to a first conductor to... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5729817 | Accent printer for continuous web material An accent color printer for printing on a continuous web of material has spaced apart drums, and a flexible continuous belt positioned around the drums. The belt defines a transport path having an arcuate portion at one of the drums. A platen cooperates w... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5719684 | Image forming apparatus having an endless conveying and transferring belt with an interrupt control In an image forming apparatus having an endless transferring and conveying device for conveying a recording medium and electrostatically transferring a toner image from an image carrier to the medium, the mechanical operation of an image forming section i... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5619240 | Printer media path sensing apparatus A media sensing system monitors the movement of media along the media pathway (76) as a sheet of printing medium (56) is transported through the printer 50. The media sensing system permits a hand fed sheet of printing medium (56) to be detected by a sens... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5587779 | Apparatus for transferring toner images An apparatus is provided for transferring a toner image from an endless belt to a receiving material positioned on a flat plate. The toner image is formed by image-forming drums on a part of the belt movable continuously along the drums and is transferred... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5539440 | Image forming apparatus having colorant holding regions and a colorant repelling region An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a means for forming colorant holding regions on the image carrier, the colorant holding regions having better ink or developing agent holding properties than the image carrier, a means for supplying a ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5485190 | Printhead writer assembly engageable with a web image member A linear printhead writer assembly includes a linear source of radiation such as an LED printhead, and an elongated linear focusing device such as a linear lens array, and a support housing for supporting both the source of radiation and focusing device i... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5475406 | Apparatus for conveying image recording sheets An apparatus for conveying an image recording sheet comprises a conveyor belt for conveying an image recording sheet, which can be attracted by magnetic attraction and is placed on a front surface of the conveyor belt. A magnet device is located on the si... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5420616 | Electrostatic recording method and apparatus with recording head timing control A latent electrostatic image is formed on a rotatable latent image carrying body in a matrix form by an electrostatic recording head. An encoder outputs a pulse signal having a period which reflects a rotational speed of the latent image carrying body. A ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5373355 | Imperfect register correcting method to be carried out on a multicolor image forming apparatus An imperfect register correcting method is applied to correcting the incorrect disposition and functions of the components of a multicolor image forming apparatus which forms a multicolor image by sequentially superposing color images formed by a pluralit... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5369426 | Method and apparatus for optimization of productivity through the synchronization of a scanner and printer using a pre-scan In an electronic color printing process in which an array of images from respective frames of a filmstrip or the like is provided on print receiver sheets or alternative storage or alternative storage media from information signals representing image info... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5355153 | Optical image writing unit having improved driving mechanism An optical image writing unit includes a photoconductive body, a writing device for optically writing images periodically on the photoconductive body at a writing interval t0, and a driving mechanism, operatively coupled to the writing means, f... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5353105 | Method and apparatus for imaging on a heated intermediate member The present invention is a method and apparatus for printing using an intermediate member acting as a receptor for marking particles representing an image. The marking particles may be deposited directly or indirectly on the member, after which time the m... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5347296 | Electrographic process for producing an image with depth perception and resulting structure This invention involves a process for producing in an electrographic system a product having an image depth perception. The process includes dispensing in a system a first dielectric layer and electrographically imaging this layer and developing the image... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5338587 | Electrographic methods An electrographic imaging member comprising a supporting substrate and an outer layer of a volume grafted fluoroelastomer comprised of a substantially uniform integral interpenetrating or crosslinked network of a polyorganosiloxane grafted fluoroelastomer... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5325154 | Color printer using circulation period to control registration of images A color printer of the type that prints color images by sequentially transferring from a photosensitive drum toner images of different colors in color registration to each other on a recording sheet being circulated by a conveyer belt, the color printer h... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5325117 | Color dry silver type color video printer A color dry silver (CDS) type color video printer using a color dry silver film on which a color printing is directly achieved, without using a copy sheet. The printer comprises a supply reel for supplying a CDS sheet, an exposure device for exposing the ... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5323185 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes an image carrier member, a member for forming a developing agent image by supplying a developing agent on the image carrier member, and a heating member capable of generating heat in a transfer region of the recording appara... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5319334 | Image forming device An image-forming device for recording images on a dielectric surface of an image-recording medium, in which the dielectric surface is in contact, in an image-forming zone, with developing powder bound to a powder support by a magnet system, the magnet sys... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5291223 | Exposure unit for a multicolor image forming apparatus capable of better registration of the multicolor images An exposure device includes a polygon mirror to scan a photoreceptors with a plurality of laser beams to write plural color component latent images. The polygon mirror receives two laser beams at its two mirrors which are arranged diagonal to each other a... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5287128 | Method to manufacture multiple part imaged documents Multiple part documents in which each part has common non-variable information and variable information are produced at high speed with a minimum amount of equipment. Utilizing either sequential press technology or large diameter plates, the multiple part... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5255018 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus in which as image is formed by utilizing a plurality of longitudinally arranged recording electrodes to which voltages for forming the image are applied and a movable endless recording medium arranged in confronting relation to ... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5249000 | Thermoreversible recording medium, apparatus utilizing the same and method for fabricating the same An image forming apparatus which permits reversible recording and erasure by a heating means, and permits storage, display, printing or reproduction of an image or other information. The present apparatus thermoreversibly records an image on a matrix mate... | 09/28/1993 |
