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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7515869 | Systems and methods for adding post-collation operations and interleaved imaging jobs to an imaging job A system for adding a post-collation operation to an imaging job is disclosed. The system includes a computing device with executable instructions. The executable instructions are executable on the computing device and are configured to implement a method for adding... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7331573 | Sheet treating apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet treating apparatus for treating a sheet having an image formed thereon is provided, which includes a pair of transport rollers for transporting the sheet upward, a sheet post-treating portion having an intermediate treatment tray, provided to execute post-tr... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317545 | Image forming apparatus for changing an image formation level An image forming apparatus can continue an execution of a job without canceling when an error occurs during an image forming operation. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311303 | Apparatus and method for distributing print media Various embodiments of an apparatus and method for distributing print media are provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus for distributing print media includes an accumulator that is pivotable about an axis. The accumulator has a print media inlet, a print media ou... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296685 | Vibrating screen for screening crushed stone and gravel A vibrating screen for conducting material in a longitudinal direction while screening the material comprises a screening deck, exchangeable modular screening media, and an adapter arrangement for mounting the screening media on the deck. The screening deck includes... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7281708 | Sheet handling apparatus and image forming apparatus When the rear end of a sheet bundle S is brought to reach the clamping portion between a rocking roller and a rear end aligning wall by conveyance means, the individual timings, at which the rocking roller and the rear end aligning wall move to the escape position, ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7263328 | Image forming system, control method, recording medium, and program An image forming system has an image forming apparatus which has a printing unit which can perform a printing process of data of a storage unit which can store data of a plurality of jobs and which has a conveying unit which can convey a sheet from the print unit to... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261478 | Systems and methods for handling defective RFID media according to available printer output options A printing device (10) such as a laser printer includes a radio frequency controller (38) which permits the detection and redirection of media having one or more defective radio frequency device tags, such as an RFID tag, to a specific one of two or mo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7245870 | Image forming apparatus with paper feed direction specifying means An image I/O apparatus has a paper feeding direction specifying control unit 125 which is constructed in a manner such that when a plurality of paper sizes exist mixedly in one image forming job, on the basis of paper mixture information which is set on a pri... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245871 | Image forming system having switching section for stackers and image forming method thereof An image forming system including: an image forming section for forming an image on a paper; a transporting path for transporting the paper on which the image has been formed in the image forming section; a plurality of stackers for stacking the paper transported by... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233411 | Information processing apparatus, print data generating method, print control program, and computer-readable recording medium When an Offset or rotation sort output is designated as an output style, whether document data of one copy is printed to one paper (physical sheet) and outputted or not is discriminated. When it is printed to one paper, it is intended to enable the print such that t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7226050 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225445 | Execution control apparatus with key pad that enables selection of jobs to be run Various settings are stored into a setting storage table for stop-key processing. These settings are related to a job kind where an operation is stopped by manipulating a stop key, a job kind where an operation is made to pause, and a job kind where an operation is ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207559 | Sheet treating apparatus A sheet treating apparatus to be connected to an image forming apparatus, which has a sheet guide portion which selectively guides a sheet to a sheet stacking portion or a sheet treating portion and, in a state in which a power supply of the sheet treating apparatus... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201372 | Sheet accumulator systems and methods Sheet accumulator systems and methods are provided for forming a stack of under-accumulated sheets. The method can include advancing sheets in a predetermined sequence and under-accumulating a first portion of the advanced sheets in a first stack. The method can als... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193735 | Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium This invention provides an environment in which, for example, even when the operation mode shifts to a specific one after a standby state for a predetermined time, a discharge tray corresponding to this operation mode functions to smoothly perform the next operation... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173717 | Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same In a sheet post-processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus according to the present invention, the sheet post-processing apparatus is provided with discharge rollers for discharging a sheet, a fixed stacking portion for supporting a portion of the discharge... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7133640 | Stapler/stacker for front-oriented front-access printers A front-oriented, front-access printer (FOFAP) is disclosed, the FOFAP configured with a front-mounted fuser, the FOFAP comprising a print mechanism, a main paper path passing through both the print mechanism and the fuser, a media flipper for directing the paper in... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120383 | Sheet treating apparatus, method of mounting sheet treating apparatus, and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has an image reading portion for reading an image of an original and which is disposed in an upper part of the apparatus, an image forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and which is disposed below the image reading portion with a... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107006 | Sheet treating apparatus, method of mounting sheet treating apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103296 | Image forming apparatus with function of sorting plurality of sheaves of original paper An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section; a discharger for discharging and guiding the copying paper to an outlet; and a controlling section for operating the image forming section, based on an image forming instruction from an operation section... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7100911 | Method and apparatus for assembling a stack of sheet articles from multiple input paths An apparatus for assembling a plurality of sheet articles into a document includes a plurality of individual sheet input paths along which one or more sheet articles can be advanced, and a central accumulation area for accumulating the sheet articles. The central ac... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093992 | Versatile collator and system incorporating same An efficient collator. The collator includes a first mechanism for selectively separating physical output from a device. A second mechanism is coupled to the first mechanism and facilitates angling and/or rotating the first mechanism based on the physical output. In... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093831 | Media path modules A media transport array for forming sequential media streams feeding a media processing system in which serial flows, parallel flows, or both are desired are structured from standard, batch fabricatable media path modules. Each media path module includes a frame uni... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7079804 | Image forming apparatus To ensure stable feed of transfer material when a paper back vacuuming feed mechanism is employed in the path from a transfer section to a fixing section in an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus is such that the transfer section is arranged on the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7063312 | Streak free apparatus for processing and stacking printed forms An apparatus for processing, stacking and thereafter collecting printed forms, includes: a dual registering stacking interface, that stacks and accumulates forms in a stack or in a continuing feeding as separate forms; and, a sequencer merger that receives the forms... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7050752 | Sheet treating apparatus, method of mounting sheet treating apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7021616 | Vertical transporting sheet treating apparatus A sheet treating apparatus for treating a sheet having an image formed thereon includes a pair of transport rollers for transporting the sheet in a substantially vertical direction, a sheet post-treating portion having an intermediate treatment tray, provided to exe... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017903 | Sheet conveying apparatus There is provided a sheet conveying apparatus which is capable of easily distinguishing between a sheet bundle containing abnormal sheets, such as multi-fed sheets, and a normal sheet bundle. When it is determined that there is no abnormality in the conveyance of sh... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007948 | Sheet stacking/aligning apparatus, sheet handling apparatus, and image forming apparatus In order to reduce the stack failure of a sheet bundle, there is provided a sheet stacking/aligning apparatus comprising: a stack tray for stacking sheets thereon; and a rear end aligning member for pushing and aligning the rear end of a sheet conveyed onto the stac... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6978991 | Streak free apparatus for processing and stacking printed forms An apparatus for processing, stacking and thereafter collecting printed forms, includes: a dual registering stacking interface, that stacks and accumulates forms in a stack or in a continuing feeding as separate forms; and, a sequencer merger that receives the forms... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978994 | Device for lateral movement of sheets The present invention relates to a device for lateral movement of sheets (2) during transport thereof to a stacking device (11) such that the sheets (2) or stacks of sheets occupy laterally displaced positions relative to each other in the stack... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973285 | Discharge sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same A sheet post-treating apparatus is provided with a discharged sheet stacking tray displaceably provided in a casing portion for stacking thereon sheets discharged from the casing portion, and a holding portion for holding the discharged sheet stacking tray in a firs... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968150 | Systems and methods for adding post-collation operations and interleaved imaging jobs to an imaging job A system for adding a post-collation operation to an imaging job is disclosed. The system includes a computing device with executable instructions. The executable instructions are executable on the computing device and are configured to implement a method for adding... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6957025 | Ordered sets printing with automatic dual trays sheet feeding Continuous “load while run” printing of ordered sets of plural different sheets in a defined order in a printer paper path is provided even where plural different sheet feeding trays are stacked with multiple such ordered sets, by additionally loading therein ne... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954599 | Image forming apparatus with function of sorting plurality of sheaves of original paper An image forming apparatus includes a data fetching section that fetches first image data on a plurality of pages and second image data on a plurality of pages. An operation section accepts a sheaf-unit sorting instruction, which includes a predetermined number of c... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6938969 | Image recording method and apparatus There is disclosed an image recording method for recording data on a recording material by a recording head which reciprocates in a direction substantially perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording material. A plurality of recording materials are conv... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6930798 | Image formation system control method, image formation system, and storage medium In case of outputting data including mixed plural different-type images, productivity and cost performance are improved without an operator's complicated manual intervention. To do so, a color printer, a black and white printer and a finisher are electrically connec... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925283 | High print rate merging and finishing system for 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 ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6850731 | Split-stream re-uniting of print-document pages Split-stream re-uniting of document pages where such pages have followed divided flow paths toward a collator. Control over proper, successive-page feeding from divided feed sources to the collator is provided by PDL-carried page-feed instructions which are “embed... | 02/01/2005 |
