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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8009308 | System and method for handling printing press workload A system and method is provided for ganging print orders to be printed on a press based on a set of print attributes, wherein associated digital files of the print orders are ganged together in one file location to generate a gang ticket in a database for the ganged... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009310 | Print control program, method of controlling printing apparatus, and print control unit A print control program for controlling execution of a print job, the print job being shared among a main printing apparatus and one or more sub-printing apparatus(es), the print control program allowing a computer to function as: ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004709 | Data communication device, computer readable medium and method for transmitting and managing data A data communication device capable of facilitating file management compared to conventional methods is provided. The data communication device includes an image file storage portion for memorizing an image file to be sent to a user at the other end, a transmission ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004707 | Communication apparatus A communication apparatus is provided that can easily select either one of a public telephone network and an Internet communication network through which information is to be transmitted and that transmits the information through the selected communication network. ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004708 | Image processing device, image forming device, image processing method, image forming method, program, and computer readable recording medium on which the program is recorded In case of transmitting a document file such as a PDF file to a printer without converting it into print data, a PC extracts from the document file to be printed information to be accessed when starting an analysis of the document file and transmits the information ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004704 | Scanner and control method for display of operation menu thereof A scanner which is connected via network or locally connected to a printer for realizing a copying function by outputting a scanned image to the printer as a copy job, the scanner, comprises a menu display that displays an operation menu of the copying function on a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004706 | Device for producing a printed image at at least one printed image location A printed image is produced at least one printed image location using a printing machine with at least one illuminating device that produces at least one printed image at a number of printed image locations. These respective printed images belong to the same page of... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004705 | Printing system and printing method using transfer of compressed image data and compression pattern from host to printing apparatus This invention relates to a printing system, printing method, printing apparatus, and driver capable of printing at high-speed even when a transfer data amount increases. According to the system, in a host apparatus, a compression pattern of image data is generated.... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004701 | Information processing method, information processing apparatus and program for generating and printing data An information processing system includes an information management apparatus that accepts image generation requests and an image generation section that generates image data, which is provided independently of the information management apparatus. The information m... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004703 | Image data obtaining system, digital compound machine and system management server An image data obtaining system storing image data optically read from a digital compound machine into a database managed by a server connected to the digital compound machine via a network. The digital compound machine includes: a unit configured to generate an inpu... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004702 | Print schedule control equipment, print schedule control method, and program therefor This invention aims at conducting a scheduling work of print processing efficiently. A device scheduler refers to print job composition information registered in step control information of the step “printer reservation” of other print job (other order) in a wor... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999962 | Image-reading method and apparatus An image-reading apparatus and method for controlling the image-reading apparatus including a document plate where an original document is placed, a line image sensor that reads an image on the document plate by scanning to obtain image data, a reference-setting ima... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999961 | Information processing apparatus, distributed printing controlling method, storing medium and program Control is effected to produce a plurality of child print jobs for a plurality of printers from data to be printed, on the basis of inputted instruction for distributed print, and information regarding a parent print job is produced on the basis of information regar... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999959 | System and method for user-specific discovery and initiation of a default document processing device The subject application is directed to a system and method for user-specific discovery and initiation of a default document processing device. First, a computing device is placed in data communication with an associated data network. Device data corresponding to doc... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999958 | Printing system, job processing method, and storage medium A printing system adapted to be able to supply printing media of a job subjected to a printing process by a printing apparatus from the printing apparatus to a cutting apparatus, the cutting apparatus being capable of performing a cutting process for the printing me... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999964 | Printing on pre-tagged media A method performed in a telecommunication device is disclosed. Document information is printed onto a plurality of print areas with a printer of the telecommunication device. Each of the print areas is encoded with identity data which differentiates the print areas ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999963 | Print processing system and method for sequentially performing first processing and second processing using a first device and a second device A CPU of an image forming apparatus, such as a color electrophotographic copying apparatus, reads print step information from a memory, such as a USB memory, that stores print image data and print step information relating to a plurality of print steps for producing... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999957 | Input position setting method, input position setting device, input position setting program, and information input system An input position setting method of setting an input position for an instruction position by an instruction section on the basis of a pickup image data obtained by picking up an image of a display area when an operator instructs a predetermined position of the displ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999960 | Printing system, printing system control method, program and storage medium A printing system is arranged so that each time a storage button disposed on an operation panel of a printer is operated, an interrupt event transferred from the printer to the computer is detected at the computer, and in accordance with the detected interrupt event... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999955 | Printing system, print server and computer program that differentiate between on-line and off-line finishing devices in said printing system A printing system capable of reducing workload of an operator by automatically separating finishing specifics of a printed product into tasks to be performed by an on-line printer and tasks to be performed by an off-line finishing device. The printing system compris... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999956 | System and method for improving print shop operation There is provided a system for a print production facility, with print job processing departments, in which a wait time interval is determined for each recorded instance in which an output, from a set of multiple outputs, is delivered from a first one of the print j... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995228 | Java 2 platform enterprise edition (J2EE) based web publishing A web publishing method using J2EE based controller. User submits an image from a workstation and chooses “Print to Website” option as the media type. The image is converted into an image format (e.g. JPEG) that can be display in a browser. These images can then... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995229 | Image processing device, information management device, information management system, and information management method An image forming device is disclosed that is able to easily deal with image data stored in plural image forming devices. The image forming device includes an image reading unit that reads image data; a storage unit that stores the image data read by the image readin... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995231 | Apparatus for searching stored documents A document managing apparatus includes a determining unit which determines whether a document print image can be generated or not when the document is entered in file managing information in which a data file is entered, the data file constituting the document which... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995227 | Offline markless post processing of printed media A method for printing media includes accumulating post processing instructions for printed media during printing operations, recording the post processing instructions on an information device, and playing back the post processing instructions for controlling offlin... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995230 | Label creating apparatus and method for using the same A label creating method for creating labels to be attached to checked fixtures comprises these steps: providing a label creating system (100), which includes a database module (40) storing relational parameters and data of the checked fixtures, and a s... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990557 | Information output system with transfer timing control According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus comprises a print data generation unit which generates the print data; a reception unit which receives print data; an image data generation unit which generates image data of each page; an image forming ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990556 | Association of a portable scanner with input/output and storage devices A device identifier is scanned with a portable scanner and communicated to a service provider. The service provider associates the device with the portable scanner. Information is scanned from a printed source and communicated to the service provider and subsequent ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990555 | Image supply device and control method thereof and printing system According to a print system, a printer supplies function information of the printer to a DSC based on a communication link between the DSC and the printer, and the DSC establishes a UI based on the supplied function information to display it on the DSC. The DSC conv... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990558 | Information processing apparatus and data output management system to restrict printing operations An information processing apparatus acquires print data to be printed by a printing apparatus and restriction information for restricting an output process of the print data. The information processing apparatus converts a format of the acquired print data and the r... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990554 | Image reproducing apparatus that selects a printing apparatus via radio communication In an image reproducing apparatus according to the present invention, image printing apparatuses capable of performing radio communication are sought, and service information relating to contents of image printing services provided by image printing apparatuses so d... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990559 | Communication network diagnostic report A method of analyzing the quality of a communication network for facsimile devices, wherein the communication network comprises at least a first facsimile device communicating through a digital network and a second facsimile device communicating through an analog ne... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990560 | IP communication apparatus, IP communication system, and data transmission method thereof An IFAX has a call controller that transmits and receives a SIP message to and from a destination apparatus via a SIP server, a file transmitter/receiver that transmits and receives image data to and from a Web server, and a communication manager that exchanges info... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990561 | Image processing server, image processing method, and computer readable storage medium The present invention decides whether an OCR processing is necessary or not for a printing job by using a difference between text data extracted by performing the OCR processing on an image generated based on a previous printing job having been processed previously ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990562 | Data processing device To provide a technology enabling a terminal device to use various functions provided in a data processing device without the use of a device driver. A multifunction device executes a process for implementing a function indicated by instruction data when such instruc... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986425 | Image forming apparatus with department management function, network printer with department management function, department management method of image forming apparatus and department management method of network printer The invention relates to an image forming apparatus with a department management function connected to computers provided in plural departments, respectively, via a network. The image forming apparatus has a communication interface with external apparatuses to which... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986426 | Distributed computer architecture and process for document management A system and/or method enables a typical PC user to add electronic paper processing to their existing business process. The system and/or method extends the notion of copying from paper passing through a conventional copier, to a process that involves scanning paper... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986427 | System for copying interactive documents A system is provided for copying interactive documents which has a copier for scanning a surface of a document, a computer system networked with the copier and a printer networked with the computer system. The document is printed with document content and a pluralit... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986423 | Image reprinting apparatus and method An image reprinting apparatus and method thereof. The apparatus includes an image-processing information storage unit storing processing information of an image when the image is processed, a print history search unit searching the image-processing information stora... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986422 | Messaging service system and method to be performed in such a system The invention relates to a method and a Messaging Service system which includes one or more Messaging Service terminals and a control means being adapted for communication with a printing means. The Messaging Service terminal is adapted to send a message to the cont... | 07/26/2011 |
