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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7123873 | Printing system with inverter disposed for media velocity buffering and registration Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media or provide a velocity buffer transports with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies can... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7046953 | Image formation apparatus equipped with automatic document feeder In an image forming apparatus having a document feeder for taking up a document from a document bundle placed on a document tray, a controller has a normal mode to perform a normal-size conveyance control by taking up each document from a bundle of documents having ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7024152 | Printing system with horizontal highway and single pass duplex Parallel printing systems include first and second adjacent electronic printers and at least one sheet bypass section extending around the second electronic printer to provide a sheet transporting path overlying the second electronic printer and bypassing the second... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023568 | Image processing apparatus and method and program storage medium An image processing apparatus for outputting a page image corresponding to print data inputted from an external source has an analyzer for analyzing the print data at the time of outputting the first copy and generating a page image, an image spooler for holding the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012711 | Image printing method, image printing apparatus, and image printing system, as well as label producing method, and label producing system There are provided an image printing method method, an image printing apparatus, an image printing system, as well as a label producing method and a label producing system, which are capable of communicating print image data representing a desired print image in uni... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006239 | Image forming apparatus with manual inhibiting of plural image retention forming mode and control method therefor The image formation by the plural-image formation mode is manually inhibited by the user in case the image formation is interrupted or the formed image is distorted by defective original feeding in the image formation by such plural-image formation mode. As a result... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6980316 | Tandem type color printer capable of making plural copies of printed matter at high speed In a tandem type color printer, a second memory memorizes bitmap data sets in a second arrangement. In the second arrangement, each of the bitmap data sets is divided into a plurality of data units. In addition, the data units of all of the bitmap data sets are arra... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973286 | High print rate merging and finishing system for parallel printing A system for printing media includes a plurality of marking engines for outputting printed media in a stream, a media path system operable to transport the printed media from the marking engines to one or more finishing stations such that the streams are merged and ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6788430 | Printer, printer control method and recording medium storing its process A print request managing task (61) for managing a print request is placed between a language interpreting task (60) and a print execution task (63). Upon receipt of a print request (PREQ) from the language interpreting task (60), if it re... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6552817 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) for incrementing a mechanical counter in accordance with the count of an electronic counter. For example, when the count of the electronic counter exceeds zero or similar preselected valu... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6320674 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is equipped with a document reading device for reading image data on a document at a reading section; a memory to store the image data therein, the memory capable of storing the image data of plural pages of documents; and an im... | 11/20/2001 |
| 5973721 | Method of printing image information having a specific orientation A method of printing image information on a receiving material, two sides of which are provided with a binding portion for collecting a plurality of receiving materials into a booklet, the image information of at least two images being printed next to one... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5740512 | Image formation system with swell correction To bring a sheet 6 electrostatically into intimate contact with a conveyor belt 1 for transporting the sheet 6 by attraction means 60, a press roll 50A for pressing the sheet 6 against the conveyor belt 1 is disposed upstream from the attraction means 60.... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5680204 | Dual scanning electronic reprographic document handler An automatic document handler includes a compact document handling system capable of automatically feeding cut sheet documents and computer form documents to a pair of scanner arrays arranged on opposite sides of a curvilinear document transport path. The... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5489969 | Apparatus and method of controlling interposition of sheet in a stream of imaged substrates A technique is provided for controlling the interposition of one or more special sheets into a stream of regular imaged substrates. In one example, a point in time at which a special insert sheet should be fed from a special insertion sheet subsystem to t... | 02/06/1996 |
| 4566782 | Very high speed duplicator with finishing function using dual copy set transports A document handling apparatus/copy sheet processor/finishing apparatus arranged as an integrated system to produce bound copy sheets at high speed but with minimum mechanical activity by double exposing each document sheet, producing successive copy sheet... | 01/28/1986 |
