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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367732 | Method and apparatus for controlling the sheet feeding speed in a printer In order to adjust a position of a cut sheet when the cut sheet begins to be sent to a printing positions a leading edge of the cut sheet is fed towards a pair of sending rollers for sending the cut sheet to a printing position, wherein the sending rollers are held ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360854 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus includes a conveying mechanism configured to sequentially convey recording sheets, and a detector including a light source and a light-receiving element. The detector is configured to detect an edge position of each of the recording sh... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7310159 | Image outputting system An image outputting system that can keep the printed image quality always in good condition by correcting printing color tone based on printing color correcting information received via a network. The image outputting system comprises: an image outputting apparatus ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310106 | Thermal printer and thermal printing method The recording sheet is virtually divided into a recording area and an unrecording area in a main scan direction. Unrecording area printing heat energy is Esi calculated by subtracting printing heat energy Epi for a line to be printed from maximum printing heat energ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7289591 | Counter circuit for controlling off-chip driver Disclosed herein is a counter circuit for controlling an off-chip driver, wherein hexadecimal number counting is performed using a N (N is a natural number) number of T-flip-flops. The plurality of the T-flip-flops performs a hexadecimal number counting operation to... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7278847 | Dynamically configured 3-D object creation system with built-in printhead failure correction mechanism A three dimensional object creation system that prints objects layer by layer, the system including a plurality of printheads, the system printing at least part of each of multiple layers simultaneously, the system configured to enable at least one first printhead t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7262870 | Image processing method for use in printer driver An image processing method for use in a printer driver includes steps of receiving an instruction for a printing process, judging whether an image corresponding to a developed image signal represents a specified image according to the printing process, and outputtin... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7206099 | Media/screen look-up-table for color consistency In an image rendering system, a method of compensating for system performance changes related to image attributes includes rendering a diagnostic image, sensing at least one image quality from the diagnostic image, updating an image attribute compensation tone repro... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7161718 | Controller, image forming system, calibration control method, calibration control program, and memory medium storing therein calibration control program A device is allowed to execute a job which is related to calibration work. Inconvenience such that a general job other than the calibration work is erroneously executed by a printer or a copier whose calibration is being executed is prevented. For this purpose, acco... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7058232 | Image processing apparatus, method and memory medium therefor The invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of embedding predetermined information in an image, the apparatus comprising input means for entering the image, division means for dividing the entered image into plural image areas, quantization means fo... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044573 | Printhead alignment test pattern and method for determining printhead misalignment A printhead alignment test pattern has spaced-apart images at least partially aligned along an axis. Each image includes leading and trailing edge portions having respective image-outermost leading and trailing edges spaced apart along the axis and includes an inter... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040731 | Method of adjusting the velocity of a printhead carriage according to the temperature of the printhead A method for controlling printing quality in an inkjet printer having a printhead with a plurality of nozzles. The printhead is mounted in a carriage, and the carriage is moved to repeatedly pass the printhead across a print medium in individual swaths. The method i... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7031020 | Image processing method, apparatus and controller An image forming apparatus and method in which a controller is capable of executing image processing of its own are disclosed. The controller has an RF unit for processing image information, a halftone image processor, a density corrector and a patch generator. The ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6997698 | Method for creating a 3-D object A system that executes a process, the system including a plurality of subsystems, each of which performs a stage of the process, each of the subsystems configured to perform one of a first subset of N1 of the stages, where N1 is greater than 1 ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994413 | Printing apparatus performing print registration A first printing pattern is formed for a patch by means of a paper feed upstream side part of a black head. Then, a second printing pattern is formed for the patch by means of a cyan head in the following scans, and density of the patch is read by a reflection optic... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6976425 | Ink feeding rate control method and an ink feeding rate control apparatus An ink feeding rate control method includes a reference print preparing step for making a printing plate by recording an image thereon based on first image data for recording a reference chart, and obtaining a reference print, a reference print colorimetric step for... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975418 | Copying machine, image processing apparatus, image processing system and image processing method In a copying machine connected to the network, calibrations on the printers are performed as follows. When an execution of calibration is requested, the copying machine displays all identification numbers of the printers connected to the network on the operation pan... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6810814 | Method for fabricating pattern, apparatus for fabricating pattern, conductive film wiring, method for fabricating device, electro-optical apparatus, and electronic apparatus A method and an apparatus for fabricating a pattern which makes it possible to obtain a wide pattern having edges of a preferable shape. The apparatus for fabricating a pattern ejects a liquid material as liquid droplets from an ejecting section, and dispose the liq... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6732645 | Method of presetting ink In a first printing process in Steps S1 through S6, ink supply is controlled so that a measured printed density (Vn) is approximately equal to a first target density (V1). This provides a uniform amount of ink remaining on ink rollers after the ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6727932 | Printer and printing method A lateral edge of a color thermosensitive recording paper in the main scan direction is detected. An edge heating element closest to the lateral edge is specified. The distance W between the edge heating element and the lateral edge of the color thermosensitive reco... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6715945 | Printing apparatus for performing quality control of printed paper sheet A printing apparatus includes an image reader for reading an image on a printed paper sheet to obtain image data, and a controller for controlling the image reader to obtain image data about a color chart including solid patches once for every predetermined number o... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6688788 | Dot-matrix printer and printing method A dot-matrix printer for printing on a printing medium comprises a dot-forming section for forming dots on the printing medium; and a referenced data section to be referred to during movement of the dot-forming section, a character string to be printed be... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6550380 | Method for stencil plate making of stencil sheet for stencil printing A micro porous plastic sheet is stencil plate made by a method for stencil plate making of a stencil sheet for stencil printing under the following conditions: heat is provided to form a negative image with TPH at -30ࣘTp-Tmࣘ300° C. (Tp is heating pea... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6491458 | Printing system A printing system includes a printing apparatus and a computer. The printing apparatus and the computer each include a density setting section. The printing system further includes a data processing section, which is at least adapted to transfer printing ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6398433 | Printing method for block copy film and block copy printer There will be provided a printing method for block copy film and a block copy printer capable of adjusting printing density as occasion arises as well as making joints between print lines inconspicuous. A predetermined mount of conveyance of transparent r... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6345920 | Method of energy control in printing with transfer ribbon and direct thermo material in thermo-printers The invention relates to a method for controlling the amount of energy from a printer head in a thermo-printer. The appropriate amount of energy for obtaining the best possible print quality with a certain printing material is controlled through calculati... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6341905 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus has an automatic feed device for feeding recording media one by one, and a pair of carriage rollers for carrying a recording medium P thus fed, to a recording section. The recording apparatus is constructed to be used in a plurality ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6283648 | Thermal head control circuit and thermal head control method permitting multicolor printing A thermal head control circuit and a thermal head control method according to the present invention are so configured as to set a state in which a limiting resistor is connected to a heating resistor element corresponding to data indicating color developm... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6264382 | Method of printing A method of printing using a thermal print head comprises a plurality of printing elements arranged generally in an array each of which may selectively be energised and de-energised under the control of a control means to transfer pixels of marking medium... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6206588 | Thermal printer A thermal printer comprises a plurality of heating elements for heating a recording medium to form an image thereon, an electric motor for transporting the recording medium to a direction opposite to a subscanning direction by rotating a predetermined ang... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6164850 | 3D printing and forming of structures A method of forming a three-dimensional feature on a surface using the technique of drop ejection to deposit droplets of deposition material. The method comprises depositing a plurality of droplets on the surface to form a feature comprising multiple disc... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6145962 | Method and apparatus for printing In the case of printing in three-value level utilizing two kinds of inks mutually different densities for one color (higher and lower density inks), it is assumed that a reflection density of a region having a predetermined area when solid print is perfor... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6146031 | Method and apparatus for controlling a thermal printer head A method and apparatus for controlling a thermal printer head. The temperature of a recording medium is sensed to determine a heating parameter for controlling the heat supplied to the thermal printer head. A transforming circuit receives image data and t... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6135655 | Multipixel dots in monochrome drop-on-demand printing Large, overlapping "mega-dots", placed on small, high resolution pixel locations, are used in high quality monochrome imaging to preserve information to the micro, or pixel, level, thus avoiding the need to use micro-sized droplets. By using multiple pass... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6109799 | Method of activating individually energizable elements in a thermal recording head A method of activating a binary controllable element of a thermal head in correspondence with an N-bit data value representing a density value D by converting a digital signal representative of said N-bit value into a binary signal that, when applied to s... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6102593 | High speed print quality font modification A printer using font modification logic for improving the print quality of high speed thermal printing is disclosed. A microprocessor modifies the font by shortening the vertical component of each symbol to account for the retained heat of the individual ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6092939 | Printing apparatus and printing registration method A printing apparatus and a printing registration method permits printing registration between a forward and a reverse scan of a head cartridge between a plurality of head cartridges without troubling a user and simply. By forward and reverse scan of the h... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6089766 | Auto-alignment system for a printing device A method for controlling an image printing device includes printing a plurality of test patterns, the density of each test pattern depending upon a measurement object, determining a relationship between image densities of a plurality of the printed test p... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6076981 | Printing apparatus and method of making mask pattern for exposure thereby There are provided a printing apparatus and a method of making a mask pattern for exposure by the use of the printing apparatus. A temperature of a thermal head is detected, and a plurality of split pulses formed by dividing a strobe pulse applied to the ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6048117 | Network-based system for color calibration of printers A printing device is requested to generate a calibration test print. The printer generates a plurality of color patches and identification data which are put in hard copy form by a marker. The identification data includes data such as device identifiers, ... | 04/11/2000 |
