Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130247 | Image forming apparatus having first and second frames and a connecting member coupled thereto for facilitating multiple stages of movement An image recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a first frame for supporting the imager forming section, a second frame for supporting the first frame loosely, and a supporting section disposed on an apparatus body for supporting the second frame in ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7948508 | Image forming apparatus having first and second frames with multiple stages of movement An image recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a first frame for supporting the imager forming section, a second frame for supporting the first frame loosely, and a supporting section disposed on an apparatus body for supporting the second frame in ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7580051 | Method and apparatus for imaging a printing form A method for imaging a printing form is particularly suited for a printing form exposer or a printing unit of a press. A plurality of light sources produce image points in a row on the printing form whose spacing is greater than the minimum image point spacing. A fi... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7542059 | Page scheduling for printing architectures At least sequential current and subsequent sheets of a print job are received in a document processing system. Each sheet includes a front image and a back image. The received sheets are scheduled to be printed with at least one of a first and a second sequence by a... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7436540 | Image recorder having more than one recording head and image recording system containing the image recorder A control part comprises a division location setting part for setting a division location based on an image data; a scan start position setting part for setting scan start positions of recording heads based on the division location; an image data division part for d... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7325903 | Quill-jet printer A system for depositing a material is described. The system uses at least one cantilever, and more typically a plurality of cantilever to transfer small amounts of material from a source of material to a substrate surface. One application for the system is a printin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7261541 | Cooling techniques in solid freeform fabrication A cooling system for removing heat from the layers of a three-dimensional object built in a layerwise manner from a build material in a solid freeform fabrication apparatus. The cooling system provides an air duct that delivers a uniform sheet of air flow over the l... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252376 | Recording liquid container, ink jet recording apparatus, and cartridge collecting apparatus A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an Information memory... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7239413 | Printer replaceable component A replaceable component is installable in and removable from a printing device and contains one or more supplies used in printing by the printing device. A memory and a port are in the replaceable component. Data that characterizes usage of the one or more supplies ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7149445 | Detection of background toner particles Apparatus and method to detect and measure, in a non-image area on a toner-image-bearing member, a low coverage of toner particles relating to a background coverage of toner particles in an image frame, and in particular, to detect and measure by an optical detector... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7128380 | Recording liquid container, ink jet recording apparatus, and cartridge collecting apparatus A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120380 | Electrostatographic apparatus having transport member with release oil-absorbing layer An electrostatographic reproduction apparatus includes: a primary imaging member for producing an electrostatic latent image on a receiver, a development station for applying toner particles to the latent image to form a developed toner image on the receiver, a fuse... | 10/10/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6867791 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic developing device, a photosensitive body, a precharger for precharging the photosensitive body, and exposing units of two optical systems with different light amount distributions, which are provided for one... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6809750 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method It is intended to provide an image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of partial magnification corrections on various partial variations of magnification as well as constant and uniform positional shift regardless of any sections. A modulated image c... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6750891 | Image forming apparatus for forming an electrostatic latent image In an image forming apparatus of the present invention, the voltage of a chargeable layer 2b of an image carrier 2 at the portion to be in contact with writing electrodes 3b is adjusted by a surface potential adjusting member 8 ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6680785 | Digital printer and its printing method Each pixel receives a digital picture data having a multi-gradation data. A line composed of printing pixels having a thickness difference of multi-gradations is obtained on a recording paper by controlling whether or not there exist ink transcription by ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6646764 | Printing system to output a document combining image data with data that identifies a source of the image and a printer Disclosed is a printing system in which unauthorized copying and reproduction are prevented by making it easy to identify the source which created or manipulated image data to be reproduced and outputted. In accordance with this printing system, image dat... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6627297 | Printable laminate A printable laminate film having improved resistance to delamination or separation of the layers of the laminate. The invention concerns the use of a new combination of ink absorber materials and adhesive materials in a single ink recording layer on a car... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6536346 | Process and apparatus for decorating articles In a process and apparatus for decorating an article, printing ink or electrostatic charges is or are applied in dependence on a digital program in dot form to the article carried by a holder, with individual dots going together to at least form a partial... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6515692 | Image forming apparatus having writing electrodes as a writing device Writing electrodes of a writing device are kept in contact with a latent image carrier with a small pressing force by a weak restoring force of a substrate. An electrostatic latent image is written on the latent image carrier by applying or removing charg... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6201944 | Tandem-type image forming apparatus operating in color mode and monochrome mode The recording sheet supporting surface of the transport belt comes in contact with the photosensitive drums for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in the color copy mode, and is separated from the photosensitive drums aside from the photosensitive drum used... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198496 | Printer A printer includes LED heads and head controllers. Each head controller transfers items of data to a corresponding head over a set of common buses. The LED head has a receiver activated by a corresponding head selecting signal. In one configuration, the c... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6184911 | Apparatus and method for recording using an electrographic writer and an imaging web An electrographic recording apparatus method includes a primary image forming member (PIFM) such as a web or drum that moves in a process direction. An electrographic writehead has a row of spaced electrodes arranged with the row being transverse of the p... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6160564 | Color electrostatic recorder with adjustable pressure on a recording medium A color electrostatic recorder of a single path system includes electrostatic recording heads conveyed in sliding contact with a recording medium for forming electrostatic latent images, developers provided in pairs to the electrostatic recording heads fo... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5995717 | Image forming apparatus A color copy machine is equipped with four image forming sections for forming images of different color components based on image data items relating to separated color components. A conveyance belt is provided below each image forming section. To avoid f... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5946010 | Serial copier, scanner, and printer employing continuous media transport A copier, scanner, or printer has serial scanning and/or printing heads. A uniform relative motion is maintained in a longitudinal direction between the head(s) and the scanning and/or printing media. The head(s) move cyclically back and forth at an acute... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5933682 | Copier/printer with manual adjustment for cross-track uniformity An electrostatographic reproduction method and apparatus includes an electrostatic recording member moving in a process direction. A plurality of recording elements on a writer imagewise expose the recording member to form electrostatic latent images on t... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5914741 | Method of creating multiple electrostatic latent images on a pyroelectric imaging member for single transfer of a developed multiple layer image A method and apparatus for reproducing color images using a non-interactive pyroelectric imaging process is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention is used to generate multiple layers of toner on the top surface of a pyroelectric imaging membe... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5833375 | System and method for interfacing a raster printer controller with a plurality of print engines A printing system includes a plurality of print engines; a raster printer controller having a processor for generating the rasterized bitmap data; and a plurality of print engine communication devices, where each of the print engine communication devices ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5815192 | Printing apparatus having print head type detection for interchangeable and selectively mounted print heads having opposite scan directions A printing apparatus in which one of two types of printing heads with opposite scan directions is selectively mounted and the mounted printing head is supplied with printing data representing an image to be printed, thereby printing the image, includes a ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5796422 | Direct toner projection printing using an intermediate transfer medium An electrostatic printing apparatus includes a rotating transfer drum having an outer transfer surface. A plurality of direct toner projection units are positioned adjacent the transfer surface of the rotating transfer drum to project toner patterns of di... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5751329 | Ionographic color printer with plural print heads removable toner cartridge and one-time usable polymeric web A color printer incorporating the invention hereof includes an ionographic image projection head which employs AC and DC potentials to provide an ion pool from which ions may be projected onto a movable dielectric surface. Plural developer modules are arr... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5745142 | Apparatus for positioning a linear printhead in an accurate position with respect to a belt or web member A linear printhead is aligned across the direction of motion of a belt or web image member. The printhead is coupled to a roller supporting the belt which is castered about a caster axis. The castering of the roller causes it to align itself across the di... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5729884 | Method for assembling a print head for an electrographic printer A method of assembling a print head for an electrographic printer includes the steps of providing a flexible sheet having a microchannel print structure having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of alignment features relative to the longitudinal axis; pr... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5589858 | Information recording apparatus In an apparatus wherein a recording medium is conveyed by a conveying system with the front surface of the recording medium opposed to recording heads and information is recorded on the recording medium by liquid droplet jet, a first speed meter is provid... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5465111 | Method and apparatus for correcting image formation using fuzzy logic An image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium on the basis of an electrophotography system includes a calculator for determining the quantities of state and quantities of control using fuzzy sets and for calculating, for each color, ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5309182 | Bicolor image forming apparatus for forming a bicolor image on a photoconductive element A bicolor image forming apparatus having first and second exposing means and first and second developing means arranged around a photoconductive element. The first and second developing means are implemented as a deflection scanning type and a line type, ... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5287127 | Electrostatic printing apparatus and method An electronic printing apparatus employs a digitally controlled toner conveyor and large scale integrated circuits (ICs) controlling write electrodes to print monocomponent toners on plain paper in a single pass. The ICs convert high level image informati... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5030976 | Electrodielectric printing apparatus and process A color printer system comprising a toner drum with a plurality of compartments for storing supplies of toner of differing colors, an imaging medium having a plurality of electodes arranged in a pixel format at the imaging medium being movable relative to... | 07/09/1991 |
