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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095022 | Image forming apparatus capable of calculating amount of toner adhesion accurately A forming-dot counting section counts a number of dots of a subject color based on dot pattern data of the subject color. An overlapping-dot counting section compares the dot pattern data of the subject color and the dot pattern data of at least one other color of w... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7860413 | Image forming apparatus and method therefor as well as program and storage medium thereof An image forming apparatus which is capable of adjusting the color density while improving the printing efficiency. A color density adjustment value-adjusting unit adjusts a color density adjustment value in predetermined adjustment timing so as to keep colors of an... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7650089 | System for measuring and controlling total color of a mixture of colorants such as toner A developer unit used in xerographic printing retains a mixture of at least a first colorant and a second colorant. An illuminator directs toward at least a portion of the mixture a first light of one color, a second light of a second color, and a third light substa... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7542688 | Method of detecting pages subject to reload artifact with IOI (image on image) correction In an image-on-image (IOI) color processing system, which superimposes toner images of different color separation toners onto a photoreceptor, a method for determining composite toner coverage on a page includes determining the order in which the color separations w... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7389058 | Method of and apparatus for indicating a time to replace consumables in an image forming apparatus A method and an apparatus for indicating the time to replace consumables in an image forming apparatus by receiving the current date and the critical time of the consumables from a host and comparing them. The apparatus and method include receiving information regar... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7333739 | Toner near empty state detection system In an image forming apparatus of a type wherein toner is replenished to a developing unit by turning or rotating a toner bottle, a phenomenon that a toner replenishment amount per turn of the bottle (replenishing rate) is decreased as the toner remaining quantity in... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7313334 | Image formation device enabling switching between color printing mode and monochrome printing mode An image formation device has an image carrier in which is formed a latent image and a development device in which are detachably mounted a plurality of development units housing a developing agent. When development units of a plurality of colors, used to form color... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292806 | Image forming apparatus and an image forming method using a plurality of monochromatic developer cartridges Prior to the execution of a printing operation, a print preparatory operation is conducted only on a priority developer cartridge out of the plurality of monochromatic developer cartridges mounted to the developing unit thereby bringing the cartridge into a printabl... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289750 | Image forming apparatus and an image forming method using a plurality of monochromatic developer cartridges The apparatus is brought into a printable state by selecting one print preparatory process from first and second print preparatory processes and conducting the selected print preparatory process prior to the execution of the printing operation. That is, the printing... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280258 | Logo data generating system, logo data generating method, and data storage medium A logo data generating system and logo data generating method indicate the amount of ink required to print a logo during the logo editing and creation process. The system includes a source image capture controller for capturing a source image that is the foundation ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280774 | Apparatus and method for automatically adjusting toner density in a color printer An apparatus and method for automatically adjusting toner density in a color printer,. The apparatus includes a toner quantity adjusting module for reading remaining toner quantities from a plurality of cartridges, respectively, comparing a lowest level of the remai... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7242872 | Image forming apparatus with changeover control for development cartridges An image forming apparatus includes a carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a plurality of development cartridges which develop the electrostatic latent image with toner to form a toner image to be transferred to a recording sheet, and a changeov... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242877 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus is disclosed. A generation section generates color image data Y, M, and C and monochrome image data K. A first control section permits monochrome printing of the image data K when the generation section generates only the image data K. Whe... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7206068 | Image forming device, post-processing device and color calibration method An image forming device includes: a toner image forming unit that forms a toner image onto a recording medium; a controlling unit that controls the toner image forming unit such that a test image is formed on the recording medium; a sheet transfer unit that transfer... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199898 | Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device including: a first developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop a latent image formed on an image bearing member; a first regulating member, disposed on one end of a longitudinal direction of the image bearing member, for regulat... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7177556 | Image formation device and recording agent cartridge attached thereto Toner cartridges 32C, 32M, 32Y, and 32K have storage elements 33C, 33M, 33Y, and 33K mounted thereon to transmit information carried on electromagnetic wave in a predetermined frequency band. An information rec... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164491 | Identifying apparatus, apparatus to be identified, identifying method, and printing apparatus An encoder of a process unit encodes an identification code output by the CPU of a main unit, thereby obtaining a response code. The response code is returned to the main unit. The logic of the encoder is changeable. At shipment, a first logic is set in the encoder.... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164867 | Method and apparatus for selecting image forming apparatus having enough toner An image forming apparatus network system, which connects two or more image forming apparatuses on a network, that includes image forming apparatuses which receive image data of the object to be printed, have image creating engines for two or more colors, and have a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162171 | Method, system and software program for correcting positional color misalignment A color image forming apparatus generally includes a plurality of image forming units for each generating an image in a predetermined color. Since these images in various colors are placed on top of each other in an overlapping manner, the positional placement of th... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158730 | Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, developing unit, and image forming method A carrier and a dummy toner are stored in a developing unit of a process cartridge in a brand new status. A plurality of process cartridges corresponding to a plurality of color toners is used in common. The color toners are respectively supplied to the developing u... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7123849 | Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus control method, cartridge, and storage medium In an image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and storage medium, if an image forming stop factor occurs in a cartridge of a certain color, image forming using a cartridge of another color is enabled to increase the utilization efficiency and operability of the ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110687 | Image forming device An image forming device measures calibration patterns printed on a conveying belt and stores the measurement data, which includes data for the density and position of the patterns. Measurement data is deleted from memory when the position of the pattern matches posi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7085506 | Method for controlling the state of developer material A method for maintaining developer material within in a predefined state through the scheduling of increased toner throughput coordinated among multiple developer housings. The method monitors developer material health at each developer station within a plurality of... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7009719 | Systems and methods for controlling an image forming system based on customer replaceable unit status Informing the user when consumables and/or customer replaceable units will have to be resupplied, changed and/or replaced, relative to the jobs sent to the image forming system, is a beneficial way to avoid unnecessary printing delays. When a job is added to a job q... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6977755 | Toner advisor apparatus and method A toner advisor apparatus and method for imaging systems includes an imaging device with a toner cartridge. More than one toner compartment in the toner cartridge is conformed to hold various toner colors. A cartridge scanner device is connected to the imaging syste... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970262 | Color image communication apparatus In a facsimile device enabling color and monochrome images to be received, setting can be made to validate an alternative memory reception function. With such setting, if setting is made to make color reception ability declaration in self machine ability declaration... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967733 | Printer and a control method and recording medium for the same A printer, printer control method, and medium for storing the control method meter and store cumulative values relating to the operation of replaceable units (parts or devices) in the printer to make maintenance easier and more reliable, and enable more accurate ana... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6931219 | Led color specific optical toner concentration sensor An apparatus and method for determining toner concentration of a sample comprised of toner and carrier, including exposing the sample to light; the exposing includes emitting light at a predefined wavelength based upon the color of the toner; detecting the light ref... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6915090 | Image forming apparatus that determines toner amount in a plurality of color cartridges An image forming apparatus is provided including at least one color cartridge that supplies at least one color toner, a monochrome cartridge that supplies monochrome toner, an image formation unit configured to form an image on an image-transferring member using at ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6795660 | Developer replenishment unit and image formation apparatus An image formation apparatus includes a developing unit for developing latent image, and a reserve tank that temporarily stores developer ejected from a first cartridge and a second cartridge and that discharges the developer to the developing unit. The reserve tank... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6580879 | Method and system for managing replenishment of toners A method and system for the determination of toner usage in proportion to image-feature density, with independent estimation of each color toner module consumption. The system accurately accounts for image-wise color interactions due to color occlusion th... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6343194 | Printer controller and printer as well as recording method for controlling specific consumables used therefor Technology for controlling consumables for color printers to prevent the mere recording agent of a specific color from being excessively consumed. In this technology, when the printer is used, the system detects the residual ink volume of each color, and ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6332063 | Image forming apparatus with residual toner detection and collection features An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming stations forming images of different colors on a transfer material and is provided along a direction of conveyance of the transfer material by a conveying system, in which a toner replenishi... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6314250 | Developing device, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus with capacitance detector for detecting residual toner amount A developing device mounted on a main body of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and adapted to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member, includes: a developer container including a developin... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6223131 | Ink cartridge for an ink-jet recording apparatus, and a system for detecting and displaying an ink consumption state of an ink cartridge An ink cartridge for an ink-jet recording apparatus, comprises: a tank housing containing ink, the ink being visible from an outside; and indications, marked along a depth direction of the tank housing, for displaying the number and size of record sheets ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6185386 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus forms test patches with no lowering of image density and no unevenness of image density. The image forming device includes a unit for generating image data for at least one test patch, an image bearing medium on which a latent i... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6063180 | Use of free-flowing, magnetic iron oxide containing granules with 50 to 73 wt. % iron content Magnetic iron oxide-containing granules for producing toners or inks, the granules comprising 95.0 to 99.8 wt. % of a magnetic iron oxide-containing compound and 0.2 to 5.0 wt. % of a binder, wherein the magnetic iron oxide-containing compound has an iron... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6029018 | Color capable electrophotographic printer A color capable electrophotographic printer remains operable for monochrome printing when one or more toner cartridges are unavailable for use. Instead of reverting to an error state when a toner cartridge is missing or unavailable, the laser printer rema... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6002904 | Image forming apparatus having light projecting unit for projecting light on image carrier prior to transfer of toner image An image forming apparatus is provided with a photosensitive drum on whose surface a toner image is formed, and image formation is carried out by transferring the toner image onto a transfer material such as paper or OHP sheet which is caused to electrost... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5722017 | Liquid developing material replenishment system and method A liquid developing material replenishment system wherein an apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image with a liquid developing material includes a liquid developing reservoir for providing a supply of operative liquid developing material to ... | 02/24/1998 |
