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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8029200 | Printing apparatus which eliminated complexity of power-on operation and can enter in print preparation when print is enabled A printing apparatus includes a detection signal receiving device that receives a detection signal from a computer; where a printable condition determining device subsequently determines whether a predetermined printable condition is satisfied; where a power-ON devi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7364251 | Inkjet recording apparatus and recording medium movement control method An inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head; a recording medium moving section; a position information detecting section synchronized with a movement of the recording medium moving section; a mark recording section for recording a mark on the recording... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355731 | Job processing apparatus A printing control apparatus performs print processing by sequentially spooling print data received from a data processing apparatus via a predetermined communication medium in units of a job and the spooled print data is analyzed in units of a job. The printing con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7328960 | Droplet ejection apparatus It is an object of the invention to provide a droplet ejection apparatus that can detect whether or not a missing dot (absence of a pixel) actually occurs on a formed image, and can carry out appropriate recovery processing according to a cause of the ejection failu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324125 | Method for automatic adjustment of media settings for a printer A method for automatically adjusting the setting of a thermal printer when a new roll of media is inserted in the printer. A maximum and a minimum energy needed to print are determined. This information is used to determine a coarse energy setting. The printer next ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318679 | Data process apparatus for controlling communication by communication unit in accordance with generated error type, and method of controlling the same To flexibly control a communication status between devices, in accordance with an error type generated in a data process device such as a printing device. Also, to improve a communication efficiency or attain a low power consumption. A type of an error generated in ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310164 | Printer, printing control apparatus and printing system using unique job identifiers, and control method therefor When a command for the status response is issued from a host computer to a printer, a data-receipt administration portion adds, to the received command, an ID peculiar to each command, and stores the commands and the peculiar ID; and a data-transmission administrati... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301651 | Information processor, printing apparatus, information processing system, printing method and printing program A print output apparatus, etc., designed to effectively increase the speed of printing started when the apparatus is in a sleep state. Before print data is transferred to the print output apparatus, a first command for making the print output apparatus to execute pr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292377 | Image processing apparatus capable of reducing power consumption while connected to an external device A power control circuit (120) is driven by electric power supplied from a controller (200) as an external device via a cable (150), and controls opening/closure of a switch (104) in accordance with instructions from the controller (200... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7271924 | Printer, control method for the same, and control device When the printer is off-line and receives a large volume of data, the receive buffer is not filled and the communication interface with the host computer does not enter a busy state. A receive buffer temporarily stores data, including control commands, from the host... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269763 | Image reproducing apparatus with problem monitoring/reporting ability and method for monitoring and reporting problems occurring in connection with image forming and reproducing process An image reproducing apparatus (1) comprises an image forming part (150, 160) that carries out an image forming and reproducing process; a data storage (20) that stores possible problems occurring in connection with the image forming and reprodu... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265857 | Medium where status information printing program is recorded, printer, print controller, status information printing method, and status information printing system If the printer generates the printing data itself completely, the processor in the printer generates the printing data after performing the predetermined processing based on the status information data by use of the font ROM, etc. The user enables the printing initi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7255501 | Printing device A printing device includes a function adding unit detachable to the printing device; a display unit for displaying an error message; a detection unit for detecting that the function adding unit is attached to the printing device; and a device control unit for contro... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7235890 | Method and system for providing power for a movable scanner head in paper scanner A method for providing electrical power for scanner heads in a paper scanner includes generating electrical power from the movement of the scanner heads and providing at least a portion of the electrical power to the scanner heads. The scanner heads are operational ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224476 | Control device and control method for network-connected device A system for selecting a network-connected image forming apparatus wherein there are provided a plurality of network-connected image forming apparatuses and job registration means which distributes and registers a job in an image forming apparatus via a network, whe... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219973 | Image-forming device and method The present invention provides an image-forming device that can record an image onto a rewritable image recording medium. Prior to recording a predetermined image, the medium is set and a test image for measuring the density is recorded thereon. When the density is ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209600 | Synchronization of components for printing The present invention relates to a technique for detecting that all components that make up a completed portion of a form are synchronized. A method is provided for detecting that for a print job, all of the components that make up a completed portion of each form a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209965 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and control program Disclosed herein as a preferred embodiment is an image forming apparatus for printing data requested to be printed from a client apparatus via a network. The image forming apparatus comprising determination means for determining whether or not an instruction string ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206974 | System and method for monitoring and reporting events between peripheral device and host system applications The present invention is directed to a system and method for monitoring and reporting status and conditions during a data collection session between an application program and a peripheral device. The present invention provides a proxy service that filters communica... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7185967 | Printing apparatus, pattern, and computer system A printing apparatus comprises an ejection head for selectively ejecting ink droplets of a plurality of sizes to form dots on a printing medium. The printing apparatus is capable of printing a correction pattern on the printing medium, the correction pattern enablin... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181508 | System and method for communicating, monitoring and configuring a device operatively connected to a network A method of monitoring a network is employed for communicating with a device operatively connected to the network. The network employs a data engine for interfacing with a data agent connected to the device. The method comprises detecting the presence of the device ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168779 | Image processing to mask low drop volume defects in inkjet printers A method and apparatus for masking low drop volume print defects in inkjet printers. In one exemplary embodiment, the invention obtains a print mask, determines a likelihood that an individual ink ejection nozzle will produce a low drop volume, determining a correct... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170622 | Image processing apparatus Image information input through an image information input device (e.g., image reader) is stored into an image information storage device (e.g., hard disk) and erased by an image information erasing device. A manager device (e.g., device controller) manages the stat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168872 | Printer paper spooler with error condition detector Disclosed is a printer paper spooler with error condition detector including a first slot structure and a second slot structure, a bobbin disposed between the first slot structure and the second slot structure, a light emitting diode, and a phototransistor that rece... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7158253 | Printer, printing control apparatus and printing system using unique job identifiers, and control method therefor When a command for the status response is issued from a host computer to a printer, a data-receipt administration portion adds, to the received command, an ID peculiar to each command, and stores the commands and the peculiar ID; and a data-transmission administrati... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154619 | Image forming apparatus and terminal device connected to network An image forming apparatus receives a print request and image information data from a terminal device connected to it via a network and executes a print job. The print job processing status is stored in a non-volatile memory. When the power to the printer is restore... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7136839 | Method for reissuing digital tokens in an open metering system A method of reissuing digital tokens in an open system meter includes the steps of calculating a digital token using the predetermined postal information including addressee information, postage amount and piece count; debiting postal funds by the postage amount; is... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7119923 | Apparatus and method for image processing There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image correcting amount computing unit for computing a proper amount of image correction based on image data of an image of an original delivered from an image input unit; an image processing unit for perf... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113303 | Job queuing based on print head position A system and method for ordering a queue of print jobs in a high volume printing operation employing movable print heads. A plurality of print jobs are sorted and executed according to print head position specifications for one or more movable print heads such that ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7101008 | Printing apparatus Provided is a printing apparatus having a device which is capable of intuitively deciding whether the indication of printing start is possible. Platen installation (S10), ink cartridge installation (S20), residual ink amount (S30), waste ink tan... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085012 | Method for an image forming device to process a media, and an image forming device arranged in accordance with the same method An image forming device includes a backing and is arranged for a media to be positioned against the backing. The backing includes an embedded backing pattern. The media is skewed with respect to the scanning, thus defining a media skew. The media and the backing are... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085878 | Transportation of main memory and intermediate memory contents A nonvolatile memory module. The module includes a nonvolatile memory array and a connector allowing the array to make connection with a host system. A memory controller operates to either create an image of a nonvolatile intermediate memory in response to an imagin... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080121 | System, method, program product, and apparatus for equipment management A system, a method, a program product, and an apparatus for managing equipments are provided in which the management can properly be carried out even if a series of data are received in a reverse of the order of transmission. Upon receiving from a center a current m... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7066568 | Determining method for determining whether ink was ejected or not, computer-readable medium, and printing apparatus A determining method and the like is achieved for determining more accurately whether or not ink has been ejected. A determining method for determining whether or not ink was ejected from a plurality of nozzles includes a step of printing a non-ejection print patter... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054023 | Communication apparatus and facsimile apparatus A communication apparatus includes a registering part, a paper feeder, an information storing part, a selector, a recording part, and a recording controller. The registering part registers information of communication apparatuses to communicate with beforehand. The ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050186 | Print control apparatus and print control method capable of canceling print job When canceling a print job in process of transfer, the user's load in accordance with a process for canceling the print job is reduced, and processes for actually deleting the print data in a printer and stopping a process for printing the print data are executed sp... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047528 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, control program, and memory medium storing control program therein A mechanism such that even in case of using a plug and play installer, a control program can be newly installed so that other existing control programs can hold matching performance is provided. For example, in an information processing apparatus having the plug and... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7014289 | Image forming device A head (101) prints a predetermined test pattern under the control of a head control unit (204) in order to precisely detect a head deviation when a head has been changed, the printed test pattern is read by a sensor 110 and detected by a pattern detec... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7011461 | Transmission control device and transmission control method for a terminal apparatus A status data transmission control apparatus and method reduces the buffer size needed for transmission and significantly reduces the communication load by storing the most recent status data (of continuously generated status data) and a history of status data chang... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006119 | Image forming apparatus with photoconductive body, and computer-readable storage medium An image forming apparatus forms on a photoconductive body an evaluation chart including first patterns and second patterns. In the first pattern, with respect to a row of dots formed in a main scan direction by a predetermined light beam, a row of dots formed by a ... | 02/28/2006 |
