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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190076 | Image forming using a transparent toner image A transparent toner image forming device forms a transparent toner image on a sheet on which a color toner image is fixed. Image information that is designated by a user for forming the transparent toner image on part of the sheet is obtained. Application of the tra... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180270 | Image forming apparatus for controlling glossiness of an image An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit and a re-heating unit. The fixing unit fixes a toner image on a recording medium by applying heat to the toner image with a first glossiness level. The re-heating unit re-heats the toner image, fixed on the recording... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170459 | Paper coloring apparatus and image forming system An image forming system includes an electrophotographic image forming apparatus which forms an image on a sheet of paper, and a paper coloring apparatus which is connected to the electro-photographic image forming apparatus. The paper coloring apparatus includes a c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165515 | Image forming system An image forming system which is capable of causing a clear coating apparatus to discharge processed sheets in proper page order, and improving usability and operability of the system by users. An image forming apparatus is set to perform single-sided image formatio... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8112025 | Cooling device and cooling method for a printing substrate in an electrographic printer or copier In a cooling device for a printing substrate after passage through a fixing station, a transport path is provided for the printing substrate. A first cooling unit is provided along one side of the transport path. The first cooling unit has a first perforated plate f... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103205 | Imaging system and method with reduced thermal stress on a substrate An imaging system including an image transfer structure configured to transfer marking material to a first side of a substrate; a tacker configured to fix the marking material to the substrate; a path controller; a substrate inverter; and a fuser. The path controlle... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086161 | Image forming apparatus which forms a toner image on a recording medium with the use of color toner and transparent toner An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming unit for effecting an image forming operation to form toner image on a recording material, wherein the toner image comprises chromatic toner image components with different colors and a transparent toner imag... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8050613 | White-out for paper reuse A method of reusing a sheet includes receiving a sheet having a printed image, scanning a new image, determining whether the sheet is acceptable for reuse, covering at least one portion of the printed image on the sheet with a white-out toner via a white-out unit, f... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036584 | Image formation system, smoothing apparatus, and image forming method An image forming system includes image forming means for forming toner images on toner receiving resin layers of respective sides of a recording material; fixing means for heat fixing the toner images on the recording material in a fixing nip; and smoothing means fo... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023877 | Image forming apparatus capable of forming glossy color image An image forming apparatus capable of using a recording medium having a transparent portion includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, and an applicator. The image forming unit forms an image on a face of the recording medium. The fixing unit fixes the image, fo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7995959 | Gloss imparting method, image forming method, fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus A gloss-imparting method that includes (a) applying heat and pressure to one side of a recording material having an image of toner formed on both sides, and fixing the image to the one side of the recording material; (b) cooling the one side of the recording materia... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970333 | System and method for protecting an image on a substrate A system and a method to protect an image on a substrate. The method includes forming an unfused toner image, partially fusing the unfused toner image at a first temperature by exposing the composition to radiation to prevent disruption of the image upon application... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7941086 | Image forming apparatus and method of cooling recording material An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing section that heats an image formed on a recording material to fix the image to the recording material; a first cooling section that cools the recording material to which the image is fixed; and a second cooling section t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933545 | Reducing image artifact reduction method Often times the glossing process results in an image artifact consisting of locally lighter image a fixed distance from the lead edge as a print is glossed. This artifact is most visible in areas of medium but consistent image. The present invention provides methods... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933544 | Image forming system An image forming system which is capable of causing a clear coating apparatus to discharge processed sheets in proper page order, and improving usability and operability of the system by users. An image forming apparatus is set to perform single-sided image formatio... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7912415 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a first toner image forming portion which forms a toner image at a recording material and heats the recording material at which the toner image is formed, a second toner image forming portion which forms a toner image at the recording ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7877053 | Adjustable gloss control method with different substrates and 3-D image effect with adjustable gloss By using a high or low viscosity transparent toner, with respect to the other color toners, and different amounts of transparent toner lay-down, the gloss of an image printed by an electrophotographic device may be adjusted. By also applying the transparent toner as... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7865122 | Recording material cooling apparatus, and image forming apparatus including the same A recording material cooling apparatus includes: a cooling belt that is in contact with a toner-image surface of a recording material on which a toner image is heated by a fixing device to be in a fusing state, to cool the recording material while conveying the reco... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865121 | Image forming apparatus and recording medium An image forming apparatus that includes an image bearing member to bear a latent electrostatic image, a charging device to charge a surface of the image bearing member, an irradiating device to irradiate the surface of the image bearing member to form the latent el... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7817953 | Image recording medium, sheet feeding device, and image forming apparatus A pair of registration rollers align a leading edge of a recording medium having a transparent section and a non-transparent section. A boundary sensor detects a boundary between the transparent section and the non-transparent section. The boundary sensor is provide... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7787815 | Image forming device An image forming device is disclosed that is able to superpose a smooth sheet on a toner image on a recording sheet after common thermal fusing, perform re-melting and solidification, and then separate the smooth sheet, thereby, forming a high-gloss image easily. Th... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783243 | Enhanced fuser offset latitude method Electrophotographic printing of one or more layers of toner using a method of enhancing fuser offset latitude to enable the printing of a wide range of toner mass laydown using electrophotography. This method encompasses the steps of forming multicolor toner images,... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783242 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a first recording mode of outputting the recording material without passing thru the glossiness applying device after fixing and a second recording mode using the glossiness applying device, and then outputting the recording material. ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7769336 | Image forming apparatus A fixing step before smoothing by a smoothing device causes the phenomenon that a photo-medium is not properly separated from a fixing device due to a toner receiving layer of the photo-medium. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of defective separation in... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7715775 | Image glossing apparatus The present invention provides a glossing apparatus including first and second heating rotating members which contact each other to form a nip part, an toner image on a recording material being heated in the nip part; a cooling unit which cools the recording materia... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7672634 | Addressable fusing for an integrated printing system A printing system (10) includes at least one marking device (22A, 22B, 22C, 22D). Each of the marking devices is configured for applying images to print media. A primary fusing device (24A, 24B, 24C, 24D... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7657218 | Gloss providing sheet and image formation apparatus A disclosed gloss-providing sheet for providing high gloss to a toner image on a recording material by being placed on a toner image surface of the recording material, heated so as to fuse toner, and then separated from the recording material after the toner is cool... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7616921 | Sheet cooling device, intermediate sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet conveying mechanism, which conveys a sheet on which a toner image has been fixed at a heat-fixing process, includes conveying rollers each of which is a single roller having the same diameter throughout a width for passing the sheet and is disposed in a pred... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7596349 | Recording material, smoothing system, and image-forming system A recording material has toner reception layers on both surfaces of a base. The toner reception layers have glass transition temperatures in the range of 40 to 80° C. One of the toner reception layers that is to be smoothed prior to the other toner reception layer ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7515861 | Image heating apparatus controlling relative positions of fixing belt and recording material An image heating apparatus that causes a recording material carrying a fixed toner image to be in close contact with a belt and improves gloss level of an image surface is provided. A decrease in the separability of the recording material from the belt can be suppre... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515862 | Sheet moisturizing apparatus and image forming system A sheet moisturizing apparatus, including a vertical conveyance route in which a sheet is guided upward or downward and paired moisturizing units which are mounted symmetrically to sandwich the vertical conveyance route. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7466954 | Image receiver sheet surface characteristics for optimum sheet handling A receiver member is provided suitable for having an ultra-gloss, image print formed thereon, the receiver member having at least one planar surface, a plurality of standoffs protruding from the planar surface, the plurality of standoffs providing a coefficient of f... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7460824 | Sheet moisturizing device and image forming apparatus A sheet moisturizing device, including a moisturizing section which applies water on a sheet carrying a formed image and moisturizes the sheet, a switching section which switches whether a moisturizing process is to be conducted onto the sheet by the moisturizing se... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7433623 | Image forming apparatus with two recording sheet cooling outlets The image forming apparatus cools the recording sheet with a cooling fan having an air duct with a first air-blowing outlet and a second air-blowing outlet for directing air from the cooling fan to an interior of the apparatus. An air flow changing member opens or c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424262 | Surface treatment of coated media A cleaning agent having one or more active ingredient which may remove residual release agents from printed material and methods for using the cleaning agents are described herein. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421231 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which improves uneven gloss occurring at the step of fixing a transparent toner is provided with an image bearing member on which a latent image is formed, a transparent toner image forming device for forming a transparent toner image on t... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421237 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that heats and fixes a toner image created on a recording medium; and a cooling unit that cools the toner image heated and fixed by the fixing unit with reference to a melting point of wax contained in the toner imag... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412198 | Image forming system and clear coating apparatus An image forming system which is capable of performing double-sided clear coating. The image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, and a clear coating apparatus configured to perform clear coating on the sheet us... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7395021 | Image forming apparatus with high and low gloss modes An image forming apparatus operable in high-gloss and low-gloss image forming modes and which has an image forming unit for forming a toner image on a recording material; an image heating unit for heating the toner image on the recording material in a nip portion, t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392004 | Image forming apparatus and system with fixing unit that changes intensity of press-contact force between rollers An image forming apparatus includes (a) an openable and closable cover, (b) a fixing unit, and (c) a press-contact releasing member. The fixing unit has a first roller, a second roller that can be pressed in contact against the first roller, and a retaining member a... | 06/24/2008 |
