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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6967728 | Reusable and transferable printer driver preference system A system is provided for supporting multiple platforms with common personal preferences for printer drivers. The set preferences for the printer driver are therefore reusable and may be moved from one driver to another. The system involves the provision of a common ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6964530 | Self-correcting printing system A system and method are provided for correcting a hang condition caused by an unanticipated exception during a printing process. The method may include providing a set of predetermined rules according to which the print process modules interact to control the printi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963401 | Combination thermal wave and optical spectroscopy measurement systems A combination metrology tool is disclosed which is capable of obtaining both thermal wave and optical spectroscopy measurements on a semiconductor wafer. In a preferred embodiment, the principal combination includes a thermal wave measurement and a spectroscopic ell... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6962399 | Method of warning a user of end of life of a consumable for an ink jet printer A method informs a user of an ink jet printer of the end of life of a consumable. The consumable supplies ink to a printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles and an associated plurality of ink jetting actuators, each of the plurality of ink jetting actuato... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6957885 | Image output apparatus and control method therefor In an image output apparatus which can perform entire-surface printing and both-sided printing, if an instruction to print additional information together with an image is issued or printing of the additional information together with the image is set, it is determi... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957879 | Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method for them, and program A printing apparatus receives, from a host apparatus, print data, and block size information of a block which is generated on the basis of the main scanning printing width and ensured in a print buffer. A block corresponding to the received block size information is... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952801 | Book assembly process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled i... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6948789 | Head substrate having data memory, printing head, printing apparatus and producing method therefor There is disclosed a head substrate of a printing head detachably mounted on a printer main body, comprising plural external connection terminals individually receiving, from the exterior, a binary logic signal corresponding to whether or not to execute a recording ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945622 | Printhead having protection circuit, and printing apparatus using the printhead A printhead is provided with a protection circuit protecting the printing element, in order to achieve a high electrostatic tolerance, in particular, an improved tolerance to electric insulation breakdown in an interlayer film. The protection circuit is formed betwe... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945624 | Droplet deposition apparatus Data input to an ink jet printer is subjected to a transformation which is the inverse of a transformation representing the errors in ink drop placement which have been measured for that specific ink jet printer. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6946804 | Display device A display device is provided, which includes: first and second signal lines for transmitting data in differential transmission; a termination resistor connected between the first signal line and the second signal line, and defining a voltage based on difference betw... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6945623 | Inkjet printing apparatus In an inkjet printing apparatus utilizing an inkjet head and an ink tank for supplying ink to the same, it is made possible to suppress any reduction in image quality attributable to changes in physical and chemical properties of the ink that occur during an elapsed... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937360 | Image forming method and apparatus which can perform output operation suitable for received image and communication apparatus using the same An image forming apparatus and a control method for the apparatus are disclosed. In this image forming apparatus which has a printing unit selectively using a desired one of a plurality of types of ink cartridges and can receive monochromatic and color facsimile ima... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929340 | Drive circuit of ink jet head and driving method of ink jet head In order to improve dullness of waveform of a drive signal having high slew rate necessary to jet ink droplets, which is caused by an influence of a low-pass filter formed by a resistance of a cable for connecting a power amplifier of an ink jet printer to piezo-ele... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6926380 | Ink jet recording apparatus provided with interrupt control circuit and method for controlling recording apparatus For an ink jet recording apparatus that utilizes the STOP mode function of a CPU to reduce power consumption and a method for controlling the recording apparatus, many NMI interrupts occur due to chattering generated upon switching when the trigger for the restorati... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924901 | Communication system, image forming apparatus, initialization method, trouble compensation method and storage medium There is provided a communication system which is capable of resetting sub-communication ICs without providing special reset signal lines for transmitting a reset signal and also capable of properly transmitting a communication reset signal to the sub-communication ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918642 | Recording apparatus using fuel battery A recording apparatus employing a fuel battery as a power supply includes an arrangement for collecting substances produced from the fuel battery and/or an arrangement for detecting the amount of fuel remaining in the fuel battery. ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6912179 | Cue delay circuit A cue delay circuit for an ink jet printing system includes a state machine with sequenced logic circuits that generate buffered control signals; a counter that counts one of the buffered control signals to form a read address; and an adder that combines the read ad... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909522 | Printing apparatus A display signal for character “A” has a structure comprising multiple layers (layers a to d) at the resolution of, for instance, level n to level n+3. The higher the level is, the high resolution of a print image is. A display signal at a required level is sele... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908164 | Power control circuit for printers and other devices A power control circuit is connected between a power source and an electronic controller in a device such as a printer and includes a latchable power delivery state for delivering power to an electronic controller of the device. Temporary closure of a switch latches... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905185 | Inkjet printing apparatus, with plural printheads and control circuit A shift register stores printing data in synchronism with a transfer clock. A latch circuit temporarily latches data having a predetermined number of bits to the shift register in response to a data latch signal. A shift register stores block data in synchronism wit... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6903830 | Electronic printing apparatus with power saving mode and control method therefor An electronic printing apparatus according to the present invention provides, for a print controller, a normal operating mode and a power saving mode for which less power is required. More preferably, when the print controller is set to the power saving mode, an int... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6896345 | Recording apparatus and method for controlling recording apparatus A recording apparatus capable of efficiently using a buffer area includes a write control unit for controlling write address information about image data in the area unit for each piece of color data for storage of the image data divided in an area unit in the buffe... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6883888 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method The present invention, in the context of trial printing operation(s) for image formation, is an image forming apparatus and image forming method causing only the minimum required image forming operation(s) to be executed. In the event that image data acquired is suc... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6885472 | Printing system, printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable memory A printer stores head information about a printhead in an EEPROM, and outputs the head information from an I/F. A host computer receives the head information, and sets the processing parameters of an image processor for printing data to be output to the printer on t... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6885471 | Printer controller, printer control method, and data storage medium for recording the controller and control method A printer controller, printer control method, and data storage medium detect a real-time command pattern in the print data to prevent unintended real-time commands from being executed by the printer. The evaluating unit detects whether a command data stream for prin... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6880904 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus, having a control circuit for controlling the driving of a recording head and a driver circuit for driving the recording head, includes an AC/DC converting circuit for converting an input AC voltage into a first DC voltage to then supp... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6880905 | Image printing apparatus and control method therefor In an image printing apparatus according to this invention, if a block management unit detects that reception of a data frame transferred from a host computer has been delayed during image printing using data frames of divided image data transferred from the host co... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6871924 | Multi-mode direct print adapter An access device for accessing data stored on a removable digital storage medium, where the access device is connectable to a printing device and a computing device. The access device includes a media interface to the removable digital storage medium and a device in... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6869156 | Image forming system and image forming apparatus In a printing apparatus communicating with an image data output device, a comparison unit compares a resolution of an image to be printed with a capability of the printer based upon image additional information, a request unit requests low quality image data corresp... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6857716 | Print-controlling method and print-controlling device for printer The invention provides high-speed and high-quality printing when the vertical and horizontal resolutions of print data to be printed differ from the vertical and horizontal resolutions which a printer can process. A table is provided, in which the relationship of po... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6851785 | Calibration method and apparatus using interpolation A systems and method for printer calibration creates linearization tables by receiving optical density related measurements for a primary ink in a group of one or more print heads printing with the primary ink, selecting from the group of print heads at least two pr... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6846054 | Liquid discharging method, image forming method, liquid discharge apparatus, and liquid discharge head A liquid discharging method is disclosed for a liquid discharge head which includes a discharge port constituting the portion for discharging liquid, an energy generating element generating the energy for discharging liquid, and liquid flow paths communicating with ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6846057 | Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, control program, and computer readable storage medium storing control program The present invention improves so-called fast printing performance by reducing a standby time required to start printing while accomplishing stable high-speed printing and a stable printing grade. Thus, preferably, an operation of moving a print head and an operatio... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6843545 | Determining the volume of ink in a printer reservoir The present invention relates to a method of printing using dots of ink discharged from nozzles to form the image. It is desirable to prevent printing to occur if there is insufficient ink in the printer cartridge to complete the page. Before each page is printed th... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6837564 | Head, recording apparatus having the head, method for identifying the head, and method for giving identification information to the head A head is provided with a driving signal line having a driving terminal for receiving a driving signal sent from an apparatus to the head, and an identification terminal. The driving signal line is electrically connected to the identification terminal. With the use ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6837559 | Printing apparatus, printing medium, memory, computer-readable medium, printing system, and printing method A printing apparatus and the like that enable printing according to an interlace mode that matches the characteristics of a printing medium set to the printing apparatus are realized. A printing apparatus for printing an image on a printing medium comprises: a print... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6837558 | Ink-jet printer performing power source control, and control method of ink-jet printer An ink-jet printer includes a control circuit for controlling a recording operation by receiving power supply from an AC adapter, a voltage output circuit for outputting a voltage on the basis of a signal output by the AC adapter, and a voltage output control circui... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6834948 | Color ink jet recording apparatus In a color ink jet recording apparatus using ultraviolet cure ink, the time required for printing is shortened and color of the ink can be clearly represented without upsizing the ink jet recording apparatus. The color ink jet printer includes a carriage that can mo... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6824234 | Printing apparatus and method with a quiet mode A printing apparatus drive control method is provided which allows the user to select a drive mode in which a printing apparatus can be operated with reduced operation noise whatever print mode is set, such as a fine print mode or a fast print mode, thus eliminating... | 11/30/2004 |
