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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8038358 | Tape printing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium storing tape print program A tape printing apparatus includes an input device, a setting device, and a display device. The apparatus further includes a setting tape width image storage device, a character size image storage device, a tape width acquisition device, a character size acquisition... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7997815 | Printer A printer includes a feeding device that feeds a tape-like print medium along a length direction of the print medium and a printing device that prints a character on the print medium. The printer further includes a storage device that stores original data including ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7436302 | Low cost RFID labeling device A system for dispensing, reading and verifying RFID tags. The system includes a label dispenser that dispenses labels that contain RFID tags from a bulk label storage device, an RFID Reader/Writer device that is operatively connected to the label dispenser. The RFID... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7384001 | Method and system for automatically and dynamically marking a label for a device A device that requires a regulatory label includes a label affixed to a surface of the device and a marking mechanism in the device that detects a configuration setting associated with the device and alters a portion of the label based on the configuration setting s... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382486 | Printing system Provided is a printing system capable of printing, when one or more pages are replaced after raster image processing (RIP), by performing RIP of only the page(s) to be replaced. A job ticket is issued from a printing apparatus. In a printing data creating apparatus,... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7371024 | Printhead assembly A printer includes a pair of opposed printhead assemblies for double-sided printing. Each printhead assembly includes first and second print modules having respective first and second elongate print heads. A single printhead circuit board controls both of the print ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373475 | Methods for optimizing memory unit usage to maximize packet throughput for multi-processor multi-threaded architectures Methods for optimizing memory unit usage to maximize packet throughput for a multiprocessor multithreaded architecture. One method employs a first phase of a software algorithm to allocate data structures to memory units in which the data units are stored and access... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367649 | Printhead assembly with selectable printhead integrated circuit control A printhead assembly is provided comprising at least one printhead module comprising at least two printhead integrated circuits, each of which has nozzles formed therein for delivering printing fluid onto the surface of print media, a support member supporting the a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366982 | Packages that contain pre-paginated documents Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platfo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362457 | Printing system and printer which sends job requests for printing When a print job occurs, each host computer stores its job data on its own disk and sends job location data showing the location of the job data to a print server. The print server temporarily stores the job location data and sends it to a printer when the printer i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362456 | Print job substitution in a copy job In an information processing apparatus, which can communicate with a first output apparatus having a copying function of printing based on a scanned document image, and a second output apparatus having a print function of printing image data transmitted from an exte... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362459 | Network device and printer A network device generates print data in accordance with information resources received from outside, and can then easily install or update a color conversion table, a printer driver, etc., necessary for generating print data. Print related information necessary for... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357302 | Self service terminal A self-service terminal that is adapted to: receive a text message, in particular an SMS message, from a mobile telecommunications device; interpret the received text message, and provide information or a service in response to the received text message. Preferably,... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355731 | Job processing apparatus A printing control apparatus performs print processing by sequentially spooling print data received from a data processing apparatus via a predetermined communication medium in units of a job and the spooled print data is analyzed in units of a job. The printing con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352482 | Apparatus and method for processing data and printing the same, and recording medium A data processor has a plurality of data transmitters, a CPU (divider) for dividing print data into a plurality of data segments and I/O controllers for outputting the data segments through at least two in the data transmitters. A printer has a plurality of data tra... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352899 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting with personalized fonts There are provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of particular indi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349552 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343320 | Online digital image-based product ordering system A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and servi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341643 | Method of making packaging material A packaging material, a method of making such a material, and a package made from such material, are disclosed. A substrate comprises at least one sheet of plastic material. An energy-curable coating is applied to one side of the substrate, which will be the outside... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341339 | Tray transferring controller, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus In a printer capable of performing recording on a recording medium such as an optical disk, a tray on which the recording medium is set is sent upstream or downstream by being nipped by a driving transfer roller rotatably driven by a motor and a driven transfer roll... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339595 | Method and system for improved internet color The present invention provides a technique for providing color corrected images to a user over a network. In particular, the present invention allows multiple image providers to provide color corrected images to a user when the user's computer and its associated dev... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340514 | Printing system using email to notify client devices of printing management information of print data sets A printing system includes a printer and computers connected by an network. A mail server is provided for transmitting notification data from the printer to the computers in the form of an email message. Print data stored in the printer is erased once the print data... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333245 | System and method for printing retained print jobs A computing system including a computer and a printer. The computer is operable to transmit a print job to the printer that cases the printer to retain the job. The computer is further operable to record a record of the job. The record includes an identifier of the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333957 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325898 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus for recording on a recording material with a recording unit includes a carriage unit having a carriage that moves relative to the recording material. The carriage mounts the recording unit, which records an image on the recording material, and ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325374 | Modular infeeds for automatic forms/fill/seal equipment Apparatus for the automatic packaging of one or more articles. One or more modular infeed systems are provided, each adapted to feed product to a wrapping machine, and each preferably adapted to communicate with a wrapping machine to identify its configuration to th... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325052 | Method and system to erase data after expiration or other condition An approach for managing print data on printing devices includes deleting print data that has been stored on a printing device for at least a specified time. The deletion of the print data based on whether the print data has been stored on the printing device for at... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322757 | Inkjet printer having associated printhead, control and memory modules An inkjet printer is provided comprising printhead modules, physically and logically distinct control modules, and logically distinct memory modules. Each printhead module prints a different section of a printing zone. Each control module controls at least one assoc... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322758 | Printing system, print request terminal, compression algorithm selecting program and printing method A printing system is provided suitable for reducing a printing time. A client apparatus acquires document data being edited during an editing operation by an application, creates print data for evaluation based on the acquired document data, selects a compression al... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324220 | Print performance under the windows® operating system The present invention relates to a print subsystem architecture in which a port monitor buffers data received from a spooler and asynchronously reads the buffered print data and transmits it to a printer. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324224 | Printer for managing a plurality of print job data The respective ones of a plurality of print job data (jobs) thrown in the printer are independently managed according to job identifying information. The job management signifies, for example, to grasp the progressive states of the jobs and present them to a user or... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321440 | Print job managing apparatus and print job control method A host that controls jobs of a printer obtains client identifying information within a job control request, which is received from a terminal, while obtaining the job information and client identifying information of the print request from the printer, and storing t... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319537 | Charging management apparatus, peripheral device using apparatus, charging management system, charging management method, charging display method, storage medium, and program A charging management apparatus which allows constructing a charging system corresponding to various conditions when a plurality of apparatuses share a locally connected image reading apparatus and also allows use of the locally connected image reading apparatus as ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318681 | Label making apparatus A label making apparatus displays a copy print setting screen to make a user input a number of sets or labels to be copied, and determines whether or not a value stored in a total number of sets in a RAM is 1. After the determination, if the total number of sets is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315387 | Print control method and apparatus, and print system A spool file (303) holds intermediate data of a print job to be executed. When a test print process is executed while designating this intermediate data, the intermediate data is converted into a command to be sent to a printer (1500), thus executing t... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315404 | Monitoring job status for grouped print jobs When a group print job is to be processed, a print application issues a grouping start instruction to a print system client first. The respective print jobs are then transmitted to a spooler. The print system client extracts the print jobs and sends them to a printe... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312882 | Image processing apparatus, management unit for image forming apparatus, and program executed by image processing apparatus or by management unit for image forming apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing firmware, a reception unit for receiving an image processing job, an image processing job execution controller for executing the image processing job using the firmware, a firmware reception unit for receiving ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311256 | Barcode optical character recognition Computer software which includes code configured to create a printer label format based on a printed label that has been scanned. The code is configured to scan a label by either using a plurality of different types of scanners, or by using a single piece of hardwar... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304764 | Information processing apparatus, printing control method, and storage medium product An N-page printing function set on the basis of a physical sheet is provided by a printing control program installed in an information processing apparatus. In the information processing apparatus when designating of N-page printing, in which drawing data of N pages... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304758 | Dynamically updating a printer driver Systems and methods for dynamically installing or updating a printer driver on a computer device without requiring a user to initiate the installation or update. In a system that includes a computer device, a printer device and a printer driver source, a print job i... | 12/04/2007 |
