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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184332 | Image forming apparatus and method for correcting density irregularities An image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit that has line heads that include a plurality of light sources disposed in a line shape in a main scanning direction, causes each light source to emit light onto image data to form pixels on an exposed surf... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8159713 | Data binding in multiple marking engine printing systems A printing system capable of binding a modified image data to an individual print engine in a multiple print engine system. The system includes an image processor such as a digital front end, a set of transformations, and a configuration of printers. The system can ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154760 | Image forming apparatus, content display method, and computer program product An operation display unit displays an operation screen for receiving input. A first storage unit stores therein a file that contains a definition of a screen described in a markup language, and a compound content that contains a still image and a moving image. A bro... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8068252 | Printing system and method including active and inactive image marking engines This disclosure provides a printing method and system including two or more integrated image marking engines, wherein the printing system is operated with less than the total number of image marking engines to generate the maximum specified prints per minute associa... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7999970 | Light source device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus A light-source holding member that holds semiconductor lasers along the sub-scanning direction is fixed to an attachment member at two points with first and second screws. An elastic member is interposed between the light-source holding member and the attachment mem... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7965410 | Automatic ink/toner consumption optimization system This is a system for maximizing the use of colors in cartridges of a color marking system. By controlling the amounts of each color dispensed where the least abundant color is conserved, the life of the cartridge is extended. A sensor tells the system what amounts o... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7940419 | Image forming method and apparatus for effectively positioning an image forming member An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member configured to receive an image, and a first image forming unit including a first image bearing member and a first pair of developing units having developers of colors different from each other, and a second image... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7894097 | Image forming apparatus with controller to control operation based on open or closed state of upper portion of apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an upper portion that is openable/closeable relative to a main body of the imaging apparatus and an operation panel provided on the upper portion. The receiving unit is configured to receive an operational instruction input by a u... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7880923 | Image forming apparatus print processing method and charging control system At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image forming apparatus configured to perform printing when a reservation request including a count value for the printing is accepted by a management apparatus that performs charging management according to a prin... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869083 | Producing artwork using color printers A method of producing a piece of artwork using a computer-controlled color printer (e.g. thermal in-jet printer) capable of printing at least three colors, is provided. The method includes: a) Inputting (e.g. from a digital camera, or the Internet) or selecting a mu... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7800777 | Automatic image quality control of marking processes A first series of control patches is printed with a first marking engine. A second series of control patches is printed with a second marking engine. Relative reflectance values of the patches printed with the first and second marking engines are measured with respe... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7738136 | Creating traps with asymmetric widths Methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for preparing a region of an electronic document for printing on a printing device having asymmetric misregistration behavior. The techniques include trapping the region asymmetrica... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7667867 | Printing apparatus and correction data generating method A printing apparatus for measuring proper density and generating correction data with high accuracy by eliminating influences of adjoining areas. A plurality of scanning coordinates SAx are set to a middle position in a primary scanning direction of each of pixel li... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7616339 | Data transmission system having distributed control functionality A data transmission system with distributed control functionality for machine tools, production machines, and robots, having a plurality of control functional units, has a respectively networked movement control system which controls the operation of the control fun... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7595909 | Web heat transfer press with air bearing A system (799) and method for continuous web sublimate dye transfer printing uses platens (800, 805) which also act as air bearings. The platens are heated by resistive heating elements ( 825 ) or other means. A sandwich of air-impermeable dye-image do... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593130 | Printing systems Measurements are taken of a first parameter associated with a first marking engine and of a second parameter associated with a second marking engine. The first and second measurements are compared to predetermined first and second reference values. An engine-to-engi... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7535594 | Scanning lens for optical scanner, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus A scanning lens for an optical scanner includes a specific adjusting axis and a curved surface. The specific adjusting axis makes a rotating center of the scanning lens and center of the curved surface. The scanning lens is disposed on a holding member having a rece... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7414751 | Printer, print control program, medium having print control program recorded therein, and printing method Colors look differently when observed under sunlight and room light. At least three chromatic colors and additional chromatic colors differing in hue from said three colors are used in combination. The additional colors are those which have a spectral reflectance wh... | 08/19/2008 |
| RE40435 | Modular copying system using light wave, electric wave, or sonic wave interconnections A modular copying system including combinations of printer, scanner, and system controller modules formed as independent frames. The scanner module includes devices for image reading, first data I/O and first synchronizing signal generation; the printer module inclu... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7385711 | Image formation system An image formation system comprises a color image formation unit of a color image formation apparatus and a black-and-white image formation unit of a black-and-white image formation apparatus. A determining unit determines whether each page in an input job having bo... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375853 | Image processing apparatus and method A separating unit determines, for an image data, whether there exists black data, and generates density data from the black data when the black data exists, and generates color data from data other than the black data. A multinarizing unit converts the color data in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369268 | Light source using large area LEDs A printing apparatus (100) for printing digital images onto a photosensitive medium (140) employing, for exposure energy, a light source (20) that uses various arrays of LEDs (32). The printing apparatus (100) may form the print im... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364272 | Printing head, head cartridge having printing head, printing apparatus using printing head, and printing head substrate A printing head which outputs an output from a sensor device provided for monitoring various condition of a printing head as digital data, and a printing apparatus using the printing head. The output from the device for detecting condition of the printing head, e.g.... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362471 | Image-forming controller, method therefor, program, and storage medium A controller for a four-drum printer eliminates a need for an expensive inter-drum delay memory, which has been conventionally used, to print an RGB image and allows a multifunction machine, printer, and the like to be provided at low cost. An image ring interface r... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354125 | Element board for printhead, and printhead having the same In a printhead element board including a plurality of printing elements which align in a predetermined direction, driving circuits which drive the printing elements, and an element selection circuit which selects printing elements within each group for each group ha... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355749 | Compressed image processing method and image compressed image processing apparatus The present invention provides an image processing method and an image processing apparatus for properly enabling a compressed image included in a page layout to be drawn in colors. A print server detects a compressed image in an EPS (JPEG) format or the like, sets ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7339701 | Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels A method for correcting for edge defects caused by print characteristics of a print engine includes printing a set of actual color patches corresponding to a desired set of colors; defining an edge region and a uniform area region in each of the patches; for each co... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339690 | Identification card printer with client/server An identification card printer for printing an image on an identification card, is provided which includes a print mechanism adapted to deposit material on to the card. A network adapter is configured to couple to a network. A print drive module controls the print m... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324240 | Color correction method with transparent toner insignia images A method for color correction of an image having an insignia portion in a multi-module printer (10). A first color profile is calibrated for a four-color image. A second color profile is calibrated for a four-color image with a transparent toner layer on top ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321444 | Printhead, head cartridge having the printhead, printing apparatus using the printhead, and printhead element substrate In a printhead in which a plurality of printing elements arranged in a predetermined direction and a driving circuit for driving the printing elements are formed on a single substrate, the printing elements are classified into a plurality of groups. A selection circ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321445 | Image processing apparatus and control method therefor In a data processing apparatus which forms a file having a plurality of pages on the basis of image data obtained by sequentially reading images on a plurality of originals, forms a file having the attribute information and end information representing the end of th... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312890 | Printing apparatus A method of applying a control strip having an appropriate size in accordance with the size of a print image is provided. Print image data is rasterized or RIP-processed in Step S1. Image layout data is acquired from the print image data in Step S2. Th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306312 | Image forming apparatus and image processing method The image forming apparatus forms an image on a prescribed recording medium by carrying out digital halftoning using a threshold value matrix. The image forming apparatus comprises: a plurality of nozzles which eject ink toward the recording medium to form an image;... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292364 | Printing apparatus and print control method When print data is stored as index data, a dedicated FIFO memory is interposed between a data processing circuit before index expansion, and an index expansion circuit, and temporarily stores the index data. The stored index data is read out by specifying a portion ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292812 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes at least two image bearing members, a transferring unit that makes a physical contact with both the image bearing members, and a lubricant applying unit that applies lubricant on the surface of the image bearing members. Images ca... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289135 | Color image-forming apparatus controlling timing of color pattern formation A color image-forming apparatus including two drums, two scanners for forming latent images on the two drums, four developing devices for developing the latent images on the drums into toner images with four colors, an intermediate transfer belt successively passing... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290146 | Managed credential issuance In a method of issuing a credential, a request for issuance of the credential is received. Next, a unique identification for the requested credential is assigned and data elements corresponding to the credential are provided. A credential production data collection ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286142 | System and method for optimising halftoning printer performance A method of rendering a plurality of graphical objects of an image on a scanline basis, with each scanline having at least one run of pixels, and each run of pixels being associated with at least one of the graphical objects such that the pixels of the run are withi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284814 | Ink jet printing apparatus and printing control method An ink jet printing apparatus, which enables high-grade printing to be carried out all over a print medium, includes a print medium conveying section for conveying a print medium, a scanning section for moving a print head that ejects ink droplets along a main scann... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283280 | Ink temperature control for multiprinthead printer This invention relates to a printer whereby ink is printed by being discharged as dots from a plurality of nozzles by means of pulses. To ensure high quality printed images it is necessary to ensuring that the size of all dots is consistent. Therefore there is provi... | 10/16/2007 |
