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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903985 | Image forming system having wet and dry imaging parts An image forming system includes a first developing unit to form an image using a dry developer and a second developing unit to form an image using a wet developer. The first developing unit forms an image using yellow, magenta, cyan and black developers, and the se... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7583905 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus is installed in a digital multifunction peripheral (MFP) having a copying function of recording images continuously and a function of transmitting and receiving information to and from an external apparatus. The image forming apparatus inc... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7570890 | Hybrid printer and related system and method A hybrid printing assembly includes a first printing subassembly operable to produce a first pattern on a medium, and a second printing subassembly operable to generate a second pattern on the medium. ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7382496 | Image forming apparatus A printer is provided with a scanner mounted to a printer main body includes control for suppressing the scanning speed of the carriage during a reading operation of a document image by a scanner. With this structure, the printer can perform an image forming operati... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7357076 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a stencil printer section and a non-stencil printer section and can form a stencil image and a non-stencil image on a single sheet. A first and a second adjusting section respectively adjusts the position ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7300146 | Embossing using clear ink A printing device including a plurality of cartridges, at least one cartridge including a visible ink and at least one cartridge including a clear ink; a print portion; and an accessory module in connection with the print portion; wherein the clear ink of at least o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286919 | Method and apparatus for controlling damping of a vehicle suspension A method and algorithm for semi-active suspension damper control is described. The algorithm controls the damper setting to limit vehicle body movement in terms of body modal velocities of heave, roll and pitch. The main input, body movement, is measured with accele... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274883 | Hybrid printer and related system and method A hybrid printing assembly includes a first printing subassembly operable to produce a first pattern on a medium, and a second printing subassembly operable to produce a second pattern on the medium. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7267498 | Six-sided printing method An improved sheet printer is provided capable of simultaneously printing both on a “main” surface of a sheet of print media and along edges of that same sheet of print media, such that when the sheets are stacked after being printed, a predetermined image will a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7227661 | Image generating method, device and program, and illicit copying prevention system An added information encoding part repeatedly arranges two kinds of copy inhibition code arrays of the unit two-dimensional arrays to which copy inhibition codes are assigned, and condition code arrays of the unit two-dimensional arrays to which codes for removing t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7206536 | Printing system with custom marking module and method of printing A xerographic printing system includes a group of marking modules which apply a marking medium to print media, at least one of the marking modules being a custom marking module. A control system is configured for being operatively linked with marking modules. The pr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202983 | Image reading apparatus In an image reading apparatus having a first original reading device for reading one side of an original guided and fed by a guide, and a second original reading device disposed downstream of the first original reading device for reading the other side of the origin... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7164486 | Image forming apparatus, expansion box for image forming apparatus and image editing system An image editing system having an image forming apparatus and an expansion box. The image forming apparatus includes an image inputting part which inputs the original image as an image, an image processing part which converts image information of an input color coor... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158246 | Method for controlling fax data transmission according to an outputting way of a receiving part Disclosed is a method for controlling transmission of fax data according to a data outputting way of a receiving part, the method comprising the steps of: scanning and storing a document to be transmitted from a facsimile of a transmitting part to a facsimile of the... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7108368 | Recording apparatus Disclosed is a recording apparatus that helps to achieve a reduction in size and cost. The recording apparatus has a U-turn sheet feeding mechanism for reversing and feeding a recording medium and a duplex transport mechanism for reversing the recording medium and p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7101003 | Hybrid laser and inkjet printer A printer which includes both high volume printing capabilities such as laser jet printing with photographic quality printing capabilities such as ink jet or dye-sublimation printing within the same printer housing. ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7070250 | Modular printing system Embodiments of the present invention provide a modular printing system. In one embodiment, the modular printing system includes a first printer and a second printer. The modular printing system further includes a connector system adapted to interchangeably connect t... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068952 | Image forming apparatus Provided is an image forming apparatus, including: a movable image bearing body; an image forming unit for forming a developer image on the image bearing body; a transferring unit for transferring the developer image formed on the image bearing body onto a moving tr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050197 | Image processor for high-speed printing applications An image processor (14) supporting very high-speed printing. The image processor (14) preferably has two separate connections to a source (12) of the image being printed, e.g., a printer control bus (34) and an image data bus (36).... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050725 | Image forming apparatus employing two printing methods An image forming apparatus has a first image forming unit and a second image forming unit that form images by different methods on the same page. The image formed by the second image forming unit is used as an identifying image to distinguish an original document ma... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7003232 | Output timing controlled image forming apparatus, system and method An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses which are connected to each other via a communication line. Each of the image forming apparatuses includes an image reader that reads an image of an original document as image data; an image d... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000544 | Measurement and regulation of inking in web printing A process is provided for measuring the inking in web printing, wherein a measuring head or a plurality of measuring heads performs/perform an integrating measurement of the light remitted from a printed web of material in the direction of run of the web of material... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995880 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus for reading both surfaces of a document has a first reading device and a second reading device disposed at a side opposite to the first reading device to sandwich a reading station for reading the document, thereby simultaneously reading b... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6970673 | Highlight color printing machine An electrographic printing machine including: a first photoconductive member; an imaging device for recording a first latent image on the first photoconductive member to form a first developed image; a first developer unit for developing the first latent image; a se... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6965467 | Particles for display device, image display medium using the same, and image forming device Provided are particles for use in a display device, in which particles cohesive force between the particles and a specific gravity are reduced, and an image display medium which can ensure a stable display image over a long period of time, and an image forming devic... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961152 | Multi-functional device having vertically arranged scanner and printer sections A multi-functional device having a printer function, facsimile function, scanner function, and copying function houses a recording section for recording images on a recording medium and a reading section for reading images from a document. A shaft is supported betwe... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6951375 | Large area marking device and method for printing A method and apparatus for printing an image on a large surface area or walkway provides for imagewise marking of the surface with a color marking solution, to form a visible image on the surface during an image recording mode of a marking engine. The marking engine... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6939916 | Adhesion promoter, coating compositions for adhesion to olefinic substrates and methods therefor The composition is an adhesion promoter that includes a chlorinated polyolefin and an olefin-based block copolymer that has an olefin block that is substantially saturated and at least one (poly)ester or (poly)ether block. The olefin-based block copolymer can be pre... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6941094 | Image forming apparatus receiving alternative devices, at least one of which includes an intermediary transfer member An image forming apparatus having a visible image bearing member in a main housing a recording medium conveying path formed in the main housing, and an installing part provided in the main housing that provides or easy installation and removal of any of at least two... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6925281 | Method and apparatus for finishing a receiver sheet or similar substrate Method and apparatus for finishing a receiver sheet or similar substrate by providing a protective coating on the receiver sheet for the benefit of, for example, protecting an image resident thereon. Such coating is created by applying and fusing a mixture containin... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6906791 | Image recording apparatus Mounting trays for storing therein sheet-shaped recording materials are used to record thereon images. A laser exposing unit forms a latent image of an image on the recording material in an exposure process by irradiating laser. A heat development unit performs a he... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6902267 | Ink-jet image forming method A method of forming an ink-jet image, comprising the steps of: ejecting droplets of an ink onto an ink-jet recording media which includes a support having thereon an outermost layer containing a thermoplastic resin; and then applying pressure onto the outermost laye... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6888645 | Color image forming apparatus A color image forming apparatus of the present invention is, for example, a digital color copying machine arranged to include two image processing units (first and second image processing units) each having a photosensitive body. The first image processing unit form... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6889012 | Image forming apparatus for monochromatic and color image formation An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a first image forming section for performing image formation based on monochromatic image data, and a second image forming section for performing image formation based on color image data. The first and second im... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6853813 | Image forming method featuring a step of thermally-fixing performed after steps of separately-applying toner and ink to a recording medium and related apparatus An image formation apparatus and method forms an image on a recording medium and includes a toner applying step for applying fusible powder toner to a recording medium to form a toner image, a semi-fixing step for semi-fixing the toner image, an ink applying step fo... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6839524 | Image forming apparatus, normal image forming unit, special image forming unit and image forming method An image forming apparatus can form an image of a high-precision security information for anti-reproduction. A photosensitive material-coated area in a recording paper is exposed with an exposure unit to form an image of a high-precision security information. Since ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6813449 | Process and apparatus for forming an image using non-aqueous liquid ink An image forming process for forming an image on a recording medium includes applying a melting colored powder to the recording medium to fix the powder heating and applying liquid inks containing a colorant in a non-aqueous solvent to the recording medium. An image... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6801723 | Image-forming device having a patterned roller and a method for providing traceability of printed documents A method and apparatus for an image-forming device having at least one patterned roller for affecting the amount of toner present on a print medium when the print medium is advanced through a paper path of the image-forming device and contacts the at least one patte... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6725770 | Hybrid printing apparatus and related control method A hybrid printing apparatus and related control method have a first print section 1a composed of a plurality of printing machines located in parallel to one another, and a second print section 1b composed of one printing machine and conne... | 04/27/2004 |
