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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937002 | Original document reading apparatus A document reading apparatus has a controller for conveying original documents from a section for loading documents via a section for reading documents to a section on which the documents are stacked, and controlling an operation of reading the documents. The appara... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7623800 | Image-forming device and image-forming method An image-forming device capable of image-forming on both sides of at least one sheet member, the device including an image-forming unit configured to form an image on the at least one sheet member, a sheet member supplying unit configured to supply the at least one ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7609983 | Image forming apparatus and sheet heating apparatus When an abnormality factor occurs in a second heating device, a sheet located upstream of a branch portion is discharged onto a discharge tray through a second conveying path. After the abnormality factor in the second heating device is removed and the sheet dischar... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7394557 | Image processing apparatus having a status holding function, and image processing system including the same In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, an image storage device stores a plurality of image data. A status holding unit holds a status table having respective status descriptors, corresponding to the plurality of image data stored in the image sto... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7376364 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding cassette, transport rollers, a pick-up roller, a sheet detector, and a control section. The sheet feeding cassette stores sheets for developer images to be transferred thereonto at a secondary transfer position. Th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7356267 | Jam removing method and printer using toner save mode A jam removing method and printer using toner a save mode includes detecting a paper jam on a printing route, confirming whether a dot count value of a corresponding image exceeds a preset boundary value, and converting a printing mode into the toner save mode when ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333221 | Printer A printer comprises a receiving section which receives printing jobs from a networked personal computers, a storage section which stores the received printing jobs, and a printing section which executes a printing job extracted from the storage section. A control se... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7305200 | Printing system with extended color gamut A printing system includes a marking engine which applies colorants to a print medium to render an image. The marking engine has a single pass color gamut which the marking engine is capable of rendering in a single pass of the print medium through the marking engin... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7280771 | Media pass through mode for multi-engine system An integrated printing system is provided comprising a first image marking engine and a second image marking engine. The first and second image marking engines can be serially arranged with one another in a first operating mode. The first operating mode includes mar... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7210681 | Paper discharge unit and printing apparatus employing the paper discharge unit A printer having a plurality of printing engines that eject papers to a common chute box is provided, wherein papers are discharged in an aligned state, even in the case that papers of different sizes are ejected. Papers of different sizes are inserted through slots... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206084 | Document processing system A document processing system where system software interfaces with transport hardware is provided. A medium stores the system software which includes an API for application software. The system software further includes instructions for a track control module and an... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206083 | Image forming system and controlling method thereof enabling discharge of single output bundle, and computer-readable storage media storing programs for executing the control method An image forming system is provided, which, if a jam occurs, enables the next fed sheet to be properly fed correctly. The image forming system can use an inserter. To allow an interrupted job to be properly processed, whether or not a recovery operation is to be car... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7180623 | Method and apparatus for print error recovery An information processing apparatus which generates print data includes a range setting module which sets the print range of each printer in order to distribute a print job to a plurality of printers and perform print processing, a recognition module which recognize... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7170630 | Communication terminal device A communication terminal device capable of efficiently using an image memory for storing a received image when performing both-side receiving by using both-side receiving function. A main control unit makes an image memory store the received image when performing bo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7151610 | Image forming device capable of suspending a current job and executing an interrupting job On receipt of image data printable on A4-sized paper, the device provided with A4-, A3- and B5-sized paper feeding trays 1, 2 and 3 carries out printing the data on A4-sized paper feed from the tray 1 (as shown in FIG. 2(A)). When an inte... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151900 | Image formation device, image formation method, information processing device, and information processing method An image forming device and control method thereof. The image forming device includes a printer engine control unit capable of detecting failure in transport of a sheet on which image data of a page is to be printed, a printer controller controlling output of image ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7130071 | Page and subset feature selection user interface An improved interface for use with a digital printer is presented. The interface utilizes information held by the raster imaging processor to allow an operator quick access to information about the print features of a print job and the ability to easily and quickly ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123847 | Image processing apparatus having a status holding function, and image processing system including the same In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, an image storage device stores a plurality of image data. A status holding unit holds a status table having respective status descriptors, corresponding to the plurality of image data stored in the image sto... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7099029 | Method for aligning two or more independent printing systems with a single control unit and intelligent print controllers A method and system receives a print job from a host device, parses the print job into individual print data for at least two separate printing devices, generates a random set of marks for identification of the print job, embeds the identification marks into the ind... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079803 | Electrophotographic printer A controller outputs a PRE CPF-N signal and a CPF-N signal following the PRE CPF-N signal to an electrophotographic printer. The electrophotographic printer 1 starts a predetermined preparation process in response to the PRE CPF-N signal, and starts irradiati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7047490 | Displaying the appearance of a printed and assembled document A method of depicting a hard copy document, in which a user generates an electronic document and then selects an instruction for assembling a hard copy document. The visual appearance of the electronic document once printed and assembled in accordance with the instr... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7039354 | Printer including recover printing control unit A printer includes a transport path, a processing unit, a plurality of transport abnormality detection, a transport page state judgment unit, and a recovery printing control unit. A paper is continuously transported along the transport path. The transport path is di... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7023574 | Multifunctional printer A multifunctional printer retains image data in an image memory when paper runs out during a copying operation, until another operation is requested or a predetermined time period expires. Also, the multifunctional printer retains information of the document that ha... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6999711 | Image forming apparatus having flash lamp and image forming method using the same An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units for forming an image on a printing medium such as a sheet of paper. A plurality of color types of toner are arranged on a transport path of the printing medium. Toner images corresponding to the ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996348 | Image forming device providing user with method for clearing errors A laser printer is equipped with a device for conveying a recording medium, the device being capable of detecting errors that might occur along each possible conveying path and the total number of steps involved in error resolution methods stored in an error table a... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6973274 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, job processing method, program, and storage medium Page numbers on original document volumes that have been read are deleted from the read image information as a part of image processing, and page information sorted with the original document pages of multiple read original document volumes as a single document is s... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6964530 | Self-correcting printing system A system and method are provided for correcting a hang condition caused by an unanticipated exception during a printing process. The method may include providing a set of predetermined rules according to which the print process modules interact to control the printi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963699 | Method and system for providing an out of paper indication by a printer Aspects for providing an out of paper indication by a printer are described. The aspects include controlling paper ejection during a print job to provide an out of paper indication with a last sheet of a paper supply in a printer. The controlling of the paper ejecti... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950953 | Network system provided with multifunctional printer and terminal apparatus connected to the multifunctional printer A multifunctional printer is provided with a main CPU that controls the entire apparatus, main power unit that supplies power to the main CPU, sub CPU that shuts down the power supply from the main power unit to the main CPU at a predetermined condition and restores... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6923439 | Image forming device An image forming device includes an upstream-side sheet transport pathway, a plurality of downstream-side sheet transport pathways, and a pathway switching mechanism. The plurality of downstream-side sheet transport pathways diverge from the upstream-side sheet tran... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6906813 | Print control apparatus, print control method, memory medium for storing print control program, and print control program If a print job is designated to interrupt print, processing of any print job currently being processed is interrupted, print processing of the instructed print job is immediately performed and resumption of the interrupted print job is automatically performed afterw... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6876820 | Image forming apparatus A plurality of photosensitive drums are disposed in a sheet transport direction so as to be in contact with a transfer belt and a transfer voltage for transferring toner images on the photosensitive drums onto a sheet transported by the transfer belt is applied ther... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6823147 | Method of resolving mismatches between printer resources and print job requirements Methods for detecting mismatches between print job attributes and printer resources and capabilities that arise after rendering of the print job has begun but before rendering is complete. The method involves detecting the mismatch, placing the print job in a mismat... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6728006 | Method, system, and program for generating a blank side of a page in a print job Disclosed is a method, system, and program for generating a blank side of a page in a print job. Bitmap data is received for at least one side of at least one page of a print job. The bitmap data for the at least one side is sent to a printer engine to control the p... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6661978 | Method and apparatus for automated job recovery A dynamic job recovery system for an electronic reprographic printing system provides warranted performance by monitoring and ensuring variable data job integrity and consistent output appearance through close control of image quality and content integrit... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6606462 | Reliability model based copy count correction with self modification during system recovery for predictive diagnostics The present invention relates to providing supplemental counts or "clicks" to account for recovery conditions in a document processing system. Furthermore, these recovery condition "clicks" will be further modified depending upon the type of recovery cond... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6567621 | Tandem printers system When a jam happens at the second printer in a tandem printer system, the printing operation is terminated at the first and second printers. The continuous sheet after establishment of the primary page images at the first printer is reserved between the fi... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6539181 | Jam recovery when using ordered media A printing system comprises at least one input source for storing a medium prior to printing or otherwise operating on the medium and a second input source to store at least one set of an ordered media comprising a plurality of sheets having different phy... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6449440 | Image forming system having job recovery depending on number of sheets in ejection tray The system monitors the number of sheets that should be housed in the finishing tray based on the information from the copying machine, the output from the sensor located on the sheet conveyance path to the finishing tray unit and the signals that indicat... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6430377 | Image forming apparatus and method with sheet removal after jam detection When a jam process is completed and a copying operation is restarted, a main CPU determines whether the copying operation which is presently set relates to copying of plural copy sets. If it is determined that the copying of plural copy sets is to be perf... | 08/06/2002 |
