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20080212120 | POSITION CORRECTION IN HANDHELD IMAGE TRANSLATION DEVICE - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting position in a handheld image translation device are described herein. The handheld image translation device may include a position module to determine a first position of the device and a print module to deposit a printing substance on a medium adjacent to the device based at least in part on the position. The device may also include an image capture module to capture surface images of the section of the medium with printing substance deposited thereon. These surface images may be used by the position module to determine subsequent positions of the device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 09-04-2008 |
20080218786 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus of this invention includes an image forming position correction unit which corrects an inclination or curve of an image in the main scanning direction by converting coordinates designating pixel positions of a bitmap image in the sub-scanning direction. It is discriminated whether image formation is normal image formation or formation of the toner image for detection by an image forming condition correction unit. Based on the discrimination result, the image forming apparatus is controlled so as to correct the image forming position by using the image forming position correction unit in a case in which the image formation is discriminated as the normal image formation, but so as not to correct the image forming position by using the image forming position correction unit in a case in which the image formation is discriminated as formation of the toner image for detection. | 09-11-2008 |
20080225318 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus of the invention conveys paper fed by a paper feeding mechanism piece by piece to a paper discharging unit through a paper conveying path. An image forming unit is arranged in a midway portion of this paper conveying path and executes an image forming process for printing an image based on image data on paper being conveyed. A sensor that detects a type of the paper conveyed is arranged on an upstream side with respect to the image forming unit on the paper conveying path. Image forming process conditions for the image forming unit are set in accordance with a detection result of the sensor. When the paper fed is paper not detected by the sensor, the image forming process is not started. After paper type detection by the sensor, the paper is directly discharged. When the paper fed is paper of the same type as paper detected by the sensor, the image forming process is started without performing paper type detection. Moreover, paper being conveyed is conveyed to the image forming unit, in which the image forming process is started, in synchronization with a printing operation of the image forming unit. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225319 | Sticky Note Printing System and Sticky Note Printer - A sticky note printing system has: a sticky note printer which prints on a topmost sticky note of a bundle of sticky notes formed by laminated sticky notes, of which one ends are glued to be peeled off each other; and an image forming apparatus which forms an image data to be printed on the sticky note. The sticky note printer prints on the sticky note based on the image data formed by the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an image forming device which forms the image data. The sticky note printer has an image rotation device which rotates the formed image data by a predetermined angle and a printing device which prints based on the image data rotated by the image rotation device. | 09-18-2008 |
20080259373 | Recording Apparatus, Recording Data Generating Apparatus, Program, and Data Structure - A recording apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding a recording medium, recording heads arranged along a feeding direction and extending in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction, and a control unit for controlling the recording heads, and including storage for storing printing cycle data for printing cycles. For each printing cycle the printing cycle data includes head drive data and head identifying data identifying each head in a corresponding positional relationship with the recording medium in the feeding direction. As the recording medium advances in the feeding direction, the number of heads identified by the head identifying data in a printing cycle changes over time. Also, the apparatus includes a drive unit for reading the printing cycle data associated with a corresponding printing cycle and drives each head identified by the head identifying data based on the head drive data corresponding to the printing cycle data. | 10-23-2008 |
20080285063 | PAPER HANDLING SYSTEM FOR UTILIZATION WITH A LAZY-PORTRAIT FORMATTING DOCUMENT PRINTING SYSTEM - A printed sheet handling system and method for use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted pages web printed pages to produce document sets includes: a printer to print LPEE formatted paired document pages on a continuous web; a slitter that divides the LPEE formatted printed web into two streams of sheets; collecting each stream in separate rolls of continuous sheets; withdrawing the stream of continuous sheets from a top of one roll, rotating the second roll 180°, and withdrawing the stream of continuous sheets from a bottom of the second roll; transferring each of the unwound streams of continuous sheets to a cutter that cuts each stream into individual pages; and collating the individual pages into correctly aligned and page number-sequenced document sets. | 11-20-2008 |
20090073475 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF UTILIZING PRINT DEVICE CONSUMPTION INFORMATION FOR PRICING AND SERVICE - A method of providing a discount may include monitoring at least one resource via a communication network. A usage profile may be received from the at least one resource. The usage profile may include a measurement of consumption of a consumable over a period of time for the at least one resource. A first factor may be determined based on the usage profile. A second factor may be determined based on one or more of an ownership level and a participation level of the at least one resource. A discount for a future purchase may be provided based on the first factor and the second factor. | 03-19-2009 |
20090086236 | Image Forming Device, and Method and Computer Readable Medium Therefor - An image forming device includes a sheet carrying body carrying a sheet thereon in a predetermined direction, a pattern selecting unit selecting one of a plurality of patterns that includes a first pattern and a second pattern, the first pattern including a plurality of marks aligned at intervals of a predetermined distance within a first range, the second pattern including a plurality of marks aligned at intervals of a predetermined distance within a second range shorter than the first range, a forming unit configured to form the selected pattern on the sheet carrying body and form an image on the sheet being carried on the sheet carrying body, a deviation determining unit determining a positional deviation of the image based upon the pattern formed, and a correcting unit performing positional deviation correction for the image to be formed on the sheet based upon the positional deviation determined. | 04-02-2009 |
20090091773 | Image Forming Device, and Method and Computer Readable Medium Therefor - An image forming device includes a rotational body carrying a sheet thereon, the rotational body including first regions defined thereon that begin with respective different phases on the rotational body, a forming unit forming an image on one of the rotational body and the sheet carried on the rotational body, a storage unit storing thereon information regarding positional deviations of images formed within each of the first regions, a region specifying unit that determines a variation of the positional deviations of the images within each of the first regions based upon the information stored and specifies one of the first regions based upon the determined variation, and a control unit controlling the forming unit to form an intended image of which an image forming position is corrected based upon the information stored, in the first region specified on the rotational body. | 04-09-2009 |
20090103123 | Label data creating apparatus, label data creating method, and computer program product - In a case wherein a rolled sheet loaded in a tape printer is a non-fixed length rolled sheet, the CPU of the computer device displays a layout edit window which is set to a free length print mode on a display screen of a display. If the free length/fixed length switch button is clicked with a mouse for setting to a fixed length print mode, the CPU displays the layout edit window which is set to the fixed length print mode on the display screen of the display. | 04-23-2009 |
20090141298 | Image Forming Device, and Method and Computer Readable Medium Therefor - An image forming device includes a main body casing, a cover configured to be openable and closable with respect to the main body casing, a sensing unit configured to sense an opening-closing operation of the cover, a forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a detecting unit configured to perform a detecting operation to detect a deviation of an image forming position of the image to be formed by the forming unit, an accepting unit configured to accept a print request, and a control unit configured to control the detecting unit to perform the detecting operation in response to the print request being accepted when the sensing unit senses an opening-closing operation of the cover after execution of a previous detecting operation, and thereafter to control the forming unit to form the image in the image forming position corrected to cancel the deviation detected in the detecting operation. | 06-04-2009 |
20090153890 | MEDIUM SUPPLYING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A medium supplying unit of an image forming apparatus includes: a cassette frame; a loading plate which is movably coupled to the cassette frame, and which supports a printing medium thereon; a pickup roller which picks up the printing medium from the loading plate; and a loading plate moving unit which causes the loading plate between a knock up state in which the loading plate located to allow the printing medium can be picked up by the pickup roller and a knock down state in which the loading plate is separated from the pickup roller, the loading plate moving unit causing the loading plate to move during when the loading plate is in the knock down state so as to reduce the occurrence of multiple sheets of printing media being picked up and supplied. | 06-18-2009 |
20090153891 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH PROCESSING PROGRAM - In merging the printing data of the merger source to the printing data of the merger destination, the setting information concerning the tab sheets are identified from the both printing data and the aligning process is executed for aligning the tab setting information of the both printing data. For example, the tab positions are changed and aligned in such a way that the tab positions vary sequentially from the start side of pages. | 06-18-2009 |
20090161135 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including a printing unit which prints an image on paper, an exit path which connects an exit of the printing unit to an exit member which pushes the paper outside of the printing unit, a plurality of guide members which are arranged widthwise of the paper, each guide member having a first guide side which guides the paper coming out of the printing unit along the exit path, wherein each guide member is installed to be movable such that the first guide side rotates when the first guide side contacts the paper which comes out of the printing unit, and returns to its original position after the paper completely passes through the printing unit. | 06-25-2009 |
20090168088 | Active electronic media device packaging - Active packaging for supplying power, data, or both power and data to an electronic media device while the device is housed within the active packaging is provided. The active packaging may include one or more electrical traces in-molded or printed onto the packaging that couple to a suitable connector on the device. Power may also be provided via one or more wireless power techniques. Multiple active packages may be conductively stacked to transmit power, data, or both power and data to a row or stack or devices. POM sensors integrated with or attached to the device (or the active packaging itself) may detect various movement events. Coordinated and synchronized display effects may be presented while the devices are housed within the active packaging. | 07-02-2009 |
20090213402 | PRINT MEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present invention relates to a novel interactive information system which can be used to make a traditional print medium such as a magazine, “interactive”. When the traditional print medium is placed on a print media receiving unit in a predetermined position, a user can interact with the traditional print medium. Printed matter elements on the printed medium can be made “selectable” by the user. | 08-27-2009 |
20090237695 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, POSITIONAL DEVIATION CORRECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING POSITIONAL DEVIATION CORRECTION PROGRAM - A multicolor image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit to direct optical beams for optically writing different single-color images on image carriers, respectively, a pattern forming unit to form a positioning pattern on a transport member, a pattern detector to detect the positioning pattern, disposed above the transport member, a positional data detector disposed on a scanning line to detect positional data in a sub-scanning direction of the optical beams, an adjustment unit, and a storage unit. The adjustment unit detects positional deviations among the different single-color images based on detection results generated by both the pattern detector and the positional data detector, respectively, and then corrects the positional deviations. The storage unit stores as reference data the positional data in the sub-scanning direction of the optical beams detected when the positional deviations are corrected. | 09-24-2009 |
20090244581 | COOLING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cooling apparatus includes: a stacker vessel in which a medium having a fixed visible image is ejected and stacked; and an eddy flow generating device that is arranged in an upper portion of the stacker vessel, and generates an eddy flow which flows along a surface of the medium transported into the stacker vessel to make an eddy and cools the medium. | 10-01-2009 |
20090251716 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PRINTING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing apparatus which is capable of appropriately discharging extra tab sheets, without placing the burden of removing the extra tab sheets on a user even in the case of attaching tab sheets into sheets to be subjected to reverse-order printing. An MFP controller determines a number of tab sheets to be attached to one copy of the printout of a print job. After causing discharge of extra tab sheets corresponding in number to a difference between the determined number and a number of tab sheets forming one set are discharged, the MFP causes the printout of the print job to be discharged starting with an N-th sheet. | 10-08-2009 |
20090262378 | Image Modification for Improved Printing and Cutting of the Image - Preparing an image for printing and/or cutting of a material comprising the image. An original image may be received. Versions of the image may be drawn over the original image. The versions of the image may be translated relative to the original image, but the original image may be unmodified with respect to any overlapping portions of the versions of the image. Drawing the versions of the image over the original image may produce a modified image. The modified image may be stored and may be usable for printing and/or cutting. | 10-22-2009 |
20090279114 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A print control apparatus controls a color multifunction printer (MFP) having a print unit and a paper ejecting unit, and a post-press section including a nearline finisher having a feeding unit and a post processing unit and including a post-press server controlling the finisher. The print control apparatus performs control as follows: The print unit is controlled to print content included in a job together with a job ticket and to print information included in the job ticket on the upper surface thereof. The paper ejecting unit is controlled to eject the job ticket using a determined paper ejection method so as to be placed on top of the printed media on which the content has been printed, in a state in which the printed media are stacked. | 11-12-2009 |
20090303512 | AUTOMATED IMPOSITION FOR PRINT JOBS WITH EXCEPTION PAGES - Print jobs can be processed to produce printed documents. In industrial printing operations, printers operate on large sheets that are then folded, cut, and stacked. Individual pages are imposed onto the large sheets such that they end up in the correct place after stacking. Exception pages are pages that, for any of a variety of reasons, require special handling and thereby slow, possibly stop, the printing process. Automatically flattening print jobs before imposition and resolving media type definitions after imposition can remove the need for special handling and thereby increase printing efficiency. | 12-10-2009 |
20090323094 | CONVEYING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - The apparatus comprising: a mechanism for moving an object; an information acquisition unit acquiring a driving amount information of the mechanism; a sensor for capturing a surface of the object; a processing section for processing a first image data and a second image data acquired by the sensor at different timings; and a control unit for controlling the mechanism, wherein: the processing section performs processings of: (a) cutting out an image pattern of a part of the first image data; (b) limiting a search range in the second image data within which a similar region similar to the image pattern is searched; (c) searching the similar region within the limited search range in the second image data; and (d) obtaining the moving information of the object based on a positional relation between the image pattern in the first image data and the similar region in the second image data. | 12-31-2009 |
20100020343 | DOCUMENT FIXER - A document fixer includes a supporting plate and a fixer body. The supporting plate includes a business card fixing recess and a clamping part. The fixer body includes a first supporting plate receiving part, an ordinary document fixing recess and a second supporting plate receiving part. When the supporting plate is received in the first supporting plate receiving part, the document fixer is adapted to fix a business card. Whereas, when the supporting plate is received in the second supporting plate receiving part, the document fixer is adapted to fix an ordinary document. | 01-28-2010 |
20100091311 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT JOB PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus which makes it possible to perform image forming processing and post-processing efficiently. A job controller divides a single print job into a plurality of print jobs according to the processing capability of a post-processing apparatus. A print controller causes a printer section to perform sequential operations according to the split print jobs, to print form a plurality of set of printed sheet bundles. The sets of sheet bundles formed in association with the respective print jobs and stacked on a stacker by the operation of the print controller are sequentially brought to the post-processing apparatus, and the post-processing apparatus sequentially performs post-processing on the supplied sets of sheet bundles. | 04-15-2010 |
20100097624 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus obtains an inspection image output mode to have an inspection image mixed in an output of image data and outputs the inspection image with the output of the image data. The inspection image is used to inspect a status of an image printed by an image forming apparatus based on image data generated according to a print job specified by a user. The information processing apparatus, according to the obtained inspection image output mode, generates printing control information to output the image data and the inspection image, which is mixed in the output of the image data. The information processing apparatus sends a print job, including the generated printing control information, to the image forming apparatus. | 04-22-2010 |
20100097625 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming system, comprises: an image formation unit for forming an image on a paper; a first paper ejection unit for receiving the paper; a second paper ejection unit for receiving the paper as a sample paper in a state that the sample paper is visually checked when sample paper ejection is performed; a first control section for controlling a switching section to eject the sample paper by switching a paper sending destination from the first paper ejection unit to the second paper ejection unit at a time of the sample paper ejection; a second control section for controlling a display section to display thumbnail images; and wherein the first control section performs the sample paper ejection using the image for sample paper ejection selected by a selecting section for selecting the image for sample paper ejection from the thumbnail images displayed in the display section. | 04-22-2010 |
20100110463 | Automated Booklet Maker - An apparatus for transporting processed sheets within a printing device. The apparatus includes a compiler including a slot for receiving the processed sheets. The slot is defined at least in part by a paper guide. An elevator is in operative communication with the compiler. The elevator includes a stop for supporting the processed sheets and a drive mechanism for moving the stop and processed sheets supported thereby between a plurality of positions. The stop has a first position for initially receiving the processed sheets. The stop is movable from the first position in a generally upward direction to a second position for breaking adhesion between a processed sheet and the paper guide. The stop is movable in a generally downward direction from the second position to a third position. | 05-06-2010 |
20100128295 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A problem of the present invention is to provide an image forming device which can minimize density unevenness due to interpolation processing. For solving the above problem, an image forming device according to the present invention is an image forming device including printing unit for printing an image by scanning a photosensitive body comprising correcting unit for correcting a position in which the image is printed, wherein the correcting unit outputs one of a data of a line of interest, a data of a line adjacent to the line of interest, and a data of an intermediate value between the line of interest and the line adjacent to the line of interest in accordance with a pixel shift amount and a main scan pixel position, and the printing unit scans the photosensitive body based upon the outputted data. | 05-27-2010 |
20100134815 | Printing a List on a Print Medium - A system for printing a list on a print medium is disclosed. The system has a device which has a sensor module for sensing a print media identifier coded on a surface of the print medium, and a printer module for printing the list on the print medium. The system further has a means for storing the list in association with the print medium identifier in a database. The list is retrievable from the database using the print media identifier. | 06-03-2010 |
20100141975 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a control section which detects an offset of a recording sheet being conveyed, the offset being in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording sheet; performs an offset regulation control which adjusts a main scanning direction image area signal in accordance with the offset; and forms a patch at a non-transfer area on an image carrier, wherein the control section performs a first control based on the offset of the recording sheet for the offset regulation control while a sub scanning direction image area signal is active for image forming on the recording sheet, and performs a second control for the offset regulation control while the image area signal in the sub scanning direction is inactive. | 06-10-2010 |
20100165371 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - When multiple-size double-side printing in an APS mode has been selected, a system CPU first reads an original which corresponds to a second side of a paper sheet, prints data of the original on the second side of the paper sheet having the same size as the original, and stacks the paper sheet on an automatic double-side unit. Subsequently, the system CPU reads an original which corresponds to a first side of the paper sheet and prints data of the original on the first side of the paper sheet stacked on the automatic double-side unit, thus completing the double-side printing. However, where the size of an original corresponding to a second side differs from the size of an original corresponding to a first side, single-side printing is effected. The original corresponding to the first side is read and data thereof is printed on a paper sheet having the same size as the original and the sheet is discharged (single-side printing). Then, the original corresponding to the first side is read and data thereof is printed on a paper sheet having the same size as the original and the sheet is discharged (single-side printing). | 07-01-2010 |
20100177333 | Printing Apparatus, Printing Method and Printing Program - When an encoder ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100188678 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - When executing the gradation lowering processing to a data area in the lower side in multi-valued print data | 07-29-2010 |
20100188679 | DOCUMENT IMAGE DATA PRINTING SYSTEM - A page turning direction specifying screen page is displayed for allowing a user to select a page turning direction of a document, i.e., a printed material. Then, based on the page turning direction selected, predetermined layout examples of page images are narrowed down so that the user makes a selection from the layout example(s) thus narrowed down. With this, even a user unfamiliar with the apparatus can easily carry out operation for printing and outputting, in an easy-to-see form, page image data arranged in order of page numbers, with a function(s) of e.g., N in 1 printing, two-sided printing, and/or printing with binding margin function. Thus, a user-friendly document image data printing system is provided. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195129 | PRINTER AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT - A printer includes an optical sensor configured to image a surface of a medium, and a contact member configured to provide a unique concavo-convex shape by contacting the surface of the conveyed medium on an upstream side thereof. A calculation unit calculates the movement amount of the medium by pattern matching calculation using a correlation window between a plurality of image data acquired at different timings by an optical sensor with the conveyance of the medium. The calculation unit searches in image data first acquired for a unique pattern reflecting the unique concavo-convex shape, and set a region including the unique pattern as a correlation window. | 08-05-2010 |
20100195130 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording-medium stacking portion, a recording-medium ejection portion and a suctioning/exhausting unit. The recording-medium stacking portion is provided in a body portion or an upper portion of the image forming apparatus. The recording-medium stacking portion stacks recording media on which respective images are formed thereon. The recording-medium ejection portion ejects the recording medium in a recording-medium ejection direction to the recording-medium stacking portion. The suctioning/exhausting unit is located with respect to the recording-medium stacking portion in a direction, which is perpendicular to the recording-medium ejection direction and parallel to a surface of the recording medium staked on the recording-medium stacking portion. The suctioning/exhausting unit suctions air emitted from the recording medium, which is ejected from the recording-medium ejection portion onto the recording-medium stacking portion. The suctioning/exhausting unit exhausts the suctioned air through a filter. | 08-05-2010 |
20100214585 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a control method for an image processing apparatus that is capable of discharging sheets printed based on print jobs input by a plurality of users to a lockable paper discharge unit, the control method including authenticating a user, releasing locking of the lockable paper discharge unit according to an authentication result, holding status information indicating whether each of the plurality of users who have discharged sheets to the lockable paper discharge unit is authenticated in a holding unit, determining whether there is any user who is not authenticated based on the status information held in the holding unit, detecting presence/absence of a sheet or sheets discharged to the lockable paper discharge unit, and notifying that an error has occurred in taking out of sheets if, after locking of the locked lockable paper discharge unit is released, absence of a sheet or sheets in the lockable paper discharge unit is detected and presence of a user who is not authenticated is determined. | 08-26-2010 |
20100231943 | IMAGE READING APPRATUS, IMAGE READING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image reading apparatus includes a hopper unit, a separating unit, a reading unit, an ejecting unit, a stacking unit, a control unit, and a storage unit. The control unit includes a detecting unit that detects abnormal reading of the document read by the reading unit, an image storing unit that associates the read image and an abnormal reading result with a reading order of the document to store, a separation stacking unit that controls the ejecting unit to separate the document in which the abnormal reading is detected and the document in which the abnormal reading is not detected to eject to the stacking unit, a rereading unit that allows the reading unit to read again the document in which the abnormal reading is detected, thereby obtaining a reread image, and an image replacing unit that replaces the image corresponding to the reading order with the reread image. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238475 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes a sheet feed tray, a sheet feed roller, an image recording unit, an output unit, a first conveying unit configured to convey a recording medium from the sheet feed tray to the output unit via the image recording unit, and a second conveying unit configured to return the recording medium, which has conveyed via the image recording unit, to the sheet feed tray. The image recording medium further includes an image memory configured to store image data to be recorded by the image recording unit and a controller configured to control the sheet feed roller, the image recording unit, the first conveying unit, and the second conveying unit to record the image on the recording medium. The controller is configured to control the sheet feed roller to start feeding a following recording medium subsequent to a preceding recording medium fed by the sheet feed roller irrespective of whether or not the image data for the following recording medium is stored in the image memory. The controller is further configured to, when it is determined that there is no image data stored therein, return the following recording medium to the sheet feed tray via the image recording unit and via the second conveying unit. | 09-23-2010 |
20100245876 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PAPER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores an identifier and a remaining sheet length of a roll sheet after an image formation has been finished; a specifying unit that specifies sheet lengths of pages where images are to be formed based on an image forming instruction, and a number of the pages; a computing unit that calculates a sheet length required for an image formation in accordance with the image forming instruction based on the specified sheet lengths and the specified number of the pages; and a selection unit that selects a roll sheet for the image formation in accordance with the image forming instruction based on the calculated sheet length and the stored remaining sheet length. | 09-30-2010 |
20100271647 | PRINT SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A print system executes an inline-job that performs printing by a print apparatus on sheets fed from a sheet feeding unit and post-processing by a post-processing apparatus on the sheets printed by the print apparatus and executes an offline-job that performs post-processing by the post-processing apparatus without performing printing by the print apparatus on sheets fed from a sheet feeding unit. The print system determines whether or not the inline-job and the offline-job can be executed in parallel, controls such that the inline-job and the offline-job are executed in parallel in a case where it is determined that the inline-job and the offline-job can be executed in parallel, and receives the off-line job and performs the received off-line job after execution of the inline-job has been completed in a case where it is determined that the inline-job and the offline-job can not be executed in parallel. | 10-28-2010 |
20100271648 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSPORT OF SHEETS THROUGH A PRINTING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a printing apparatus and a method for controlling the transport of sheets through a printing apparatus, in particular a digital printing apparatus. The printing apparatus has at least one print module and a transport arrangement defining a direction of transport, arranged for transporting sheets past said at least one print module for printing thereon. In the method for controlling the transport of sheets through the printing apparatus, a print queue is set by assigning images to respective sheets, prior to feeding the respective sheets into the transport arrangement. The sheets are then fed into the transport arrangement, an it is detecting whether a double sheet feeding has occurred. Superposed double sheets are deflected to a double sheet box, which is arranged upstream of the at least one print module, and at least those sheets following the superposed double sheet in the transport arrangement, for which an image has already been assigned and which are not in a duplex path, are guided to a waste box, which is arranged downstream of the at least one print module. Finally, the print queue is automatically reset and printing is continued without stopping the printing apparatus. | 10-28-2010 |
20100290069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling an apparatus, including a plurality of lockable discharge units configured to discharge a printed product having an image formed thereon based on a received job to any one of the plurality of lockable discharge units, includes managing information about a lockable discharge unit to which the printed product is discharged in association with information about a user, notifying the user to prompt picking up the printed product discharged to the lockable discharge unit based on the managed information, and determining whether a particular user is using the plurality of lockable discharge units based on the managed information, wherein, in a case where the particular user is using the plurality of lockable discharge units, the notification is performed. | 11-18-2010 |
20100302569 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus includes a direct-transfer control unit that causes a direct-transfer medium and a first image forming unit that forms a single-color image to transfer the single-color image onto either the direct-transfer medium or a transfer sheet; an indirect-transfer control unit that causes an intermediate transfer medium and a second image forming unit that forms a multi-color image to transfer the multi-color image onto the intermediate transfer medium; a secondary-transfer control unit that transfers the single-color image onto the intermediate transfer medium; a sensor that detects an image on the intermediate transfer medium; and a positional-alignment control unit that calculates, using the sensor, an amount of misalignment of the image and corrects, using a position of an image formed by the first image forming unit as a reference position, positions of images to be formed by the second image forming unit based on the calculated amount of misalignment. | 12-02-2010 |
20100315663 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A printing control apparatus for printing an image on a recording medium of a plurality of types of recording mediums set in any of a plurality of storage units by conveying the recording medium to a printing position includes a determination unit configured to determine a used amount for each type of recording medium, and a display control unit configured to display on a display device information for guiding a high usage type recording medium to be set in a storage unit which has a short conveyance distance to the printing position among the plurality of the storage units based on the used amounts determined by the determination unit. | 12-16-2010 |
20100315664 | METHOD OF MAKING AN ANIMATED FLIPBOOK - The present invention is directed towards method of making an animated flipbook by printing individual images captured from video footage on sheets of paper, with more than one image printed on each sheet of paper in a predetermined order. The sheets of paper are cut into rows of images, stacked chronologically, and cut into individual flipbook pages. The flipbook pages are stacked chronologically and bound together. | 12-16-2010 |
20100328695 | BOOKLET PAGE TURNING APPARATUS, BOOKLET PAGE TURNING METHOD, AND ID PRINTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a control device which controls to, after the feed device has fed the booklet so as to bring the page on the other surface side of the booklet into contact with the contact roller unit and fold the page on the other surface side, feed the booklet to the page turning position again. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001996 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a setting section configured to set setting information for forming an image on a recording medium, feeding cassette configured to contain the recording medium, a printer configured to form the image on the recording medium in the feeding cassette, a media sensor configured to detect characteristic information of the recording medium, an image forming condition determination section configured to determine a first image forming condition to regulate an image forming operation of the printer based on the characteristic information of the first recording medium in a first print job, a control section configured to control the image forming operation for a second or later recording medium in the first print job in accordance with the first image forming condition, and a storage section configured to classify and store the characteristic information detected by the media sensor. | 01-06-2011 |
20110026059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MEDIA THICKNESS IN A FEEDER SECTION OF AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for determining media thickness in a feeder section of an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving one or more multi-dimensional images of a media stack from an imaging device, the media stack including one or more media clips that each contain a plurality of media sheets, deriving a multi-dimensional feature signal from the received one or more multi-dimensional images, converting the derived multi-dimensional feature signal to a one-dimensional feature signal, estimating media clip thickness using the one-dimensional signal, estimating media sheet thickness using the estimated media clip thickness, and adjusting at least one image production device parameter based on the estimated media sheet thickness. | 02-03-2011 |
20110032557 | PRINTING - A method of printing on both sides of a substrate ( | 02-10-2011 |
20110051162 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus including a function of executing printing on a preprint sheet acquires orientation information about an orientation setting method of the preprint sheet when receiving a print job. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit, and when processing according to a setting included in the print job cannot be executed unless the orientation setting method of the preprint sheet is changed even if image data included in the print job is rotated, according to the orientation information and the setting included in the print job, the control unit causes a display unit to display an orientation setting method with which the processing according to the setting included in the print job can be executed on the preprint sheet. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063644 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including an image reading unit to read an image of a document, disposed in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus; an image forming unit to form the image on a sheet, disposed below the image reading unit; at least upper and lower sheet roll supporters provided one above the other below the image forming unit to support a sheet roll, the lower sheet roll supporter offset proximally toward a front surface of the image forming apparatus from the upper sheet roll supporter; and multiple openings provided in the front surface of the image forming apparatus for the at least upper and lower sheet roll supporters through which the sheet roll is set to the at least upper and lower sheet roll supporters from a front surface side of the image forming apparatus. | 03-17-2011 |
20110075175 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A clamper clamps an edge of a lenticular sheet and moves in a sub-scanning direction to transport the lenticular sheet. While the lenticular sheet is transported so as to form an image receptor layer on a rear side of the lenticular sheet, a sensor unit is moved in a main-scanning direction, such that the sensor unit is moved relative to the lenticular sheet in a direction which has a predetermined measurement scanning angle from the main-scanning direction. The sensor unit receives an inspection light projected toward and passed through the lenticular sheet, and outputs a detection signal corresponding to a received amount of the inspection light. Based on a variation of the inspection light, an oblique transportation angle of the lenticular sheet is calculated and the clamper is rotated in a direction to cancel the oblique transportation angle of the lenticular sheet. | 03-31-2011 |
20110090523 | PRINTER WITH SHOOT OUT FUNCTION - A printing system is adapted to carry out a print job on the basis of print job data supplied to the printing system and to discharge resulting printed pages at a first job output. The printing system includes a shoot out device configured to print out a selection of duplicates from the resulting printed pages and for discharging the duplicates as shoot outs at a second output. The shoot out device is programmable by a user in order to establish a mode of operation of the shoot out device by programming the selection of duplicates to be discharged at the second output. The printing system is adapted to print a banner page for the duplicates and to discharge the banner page at the second output. | 04-21-2011 |
20110141506 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a decision unit for deciding whether or not each of physical pages of a document file is unprintable based on whether or not an inserter is designated as a paper feed unit, a determination unit for determining whether or not printing of a document is designated for the physical page that is decided as an unprintable page by the decision unit, and a preview display unit for displaying a preview image that can discriminate the physical page determined that printing of the document is designated by the determination unit from the other pages. | 06-16-2011 |
20110170125 | OPTICAL READING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR AN OPTICAL READING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - The length of the process from capturing an image by an optical reading unit to discharging the medium is shortened, and throughput improved. A media transportation mechanism conveys a medium to be scanned. An optical reader disposed to the medium transportation path optically reads the conveyed medium. A storage unit stores the captured image. A transmission unit reads and transmits the captured image stored in the storage unit to another device. A discharge control unit discharges the medium while the captured image is being transmitted to the other device after the optical reader finishes scanning the medium. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170126 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a case that it is determined that a first feeding unit is not ready to feed upon designation of a first print job that requires air feeding, start of the first print job is waited until the first feeding unit is ready to feed. In a case that a second print job that requires roll feeding is accepted during waiting for the first print job, the second print job is executed, and the first print job that requires air feeding is executed after completion of the second print job. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176158 | ROTATION AMOUNT DETECTING DEVICE FOR ROTATION BODY, LENGTH MEASURING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A rotation amount detecting device for a rotation body includes: a first rotation body having a first surface; a second rotation body having a second surface formed of a material different from that of the first surface and contacting the first surface, and rotating with rotation of the first rotation body; a first support member rotatably supporting the first rotation body at a first position and supporting thereof to be swingable around a first axis at a position different from the first position; a second support member rotatably supporting the second rotation body at a second position and supporting thereof to be swingable around a second axis provided at a position different from the second position, the second axis being the first axis or an axis in the first support member other than the first axis; and a detector that detects a rotation amount of the second rotation body. | 07-21-2011 |
20110188061 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM - An image formation apparatus includes: media containers each of which can contain therein media, an image formation unit to form an image on one or more media based on image data; a media feed unit to feed the media from one of the media containers to the image formation unit; a computation unit configured to calculate a remaining time to complete the image-forming on the media of an instructed quantity, based on a feed time per medium and a print time per medium; and an image formation condition change detector configured to detect a change of image formation conditions. When the change of the image formation conditions is detected, the computation unit calculates the remaining time, based on the feed time per medium and the print time per medium after the change of the image formation conditions. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194131 | AUTOMATED POSITIONING OF PRINTED IMAGES - A method of calibrating a printing system for positioning at least one printed image, the printing system includes a first image bearing surface, the method includes: a) forming a background pattern and at least three fiducials on the first image bearing surface, wherein the background pattern is larger than a first printed image and the at least three fiducials are within an area formed by the first printed image; b) transferring a portion of the first printed image to a second image bearing surface; c) measuring a first residual image on the first image bearing surface, wherein the first residual image is a portion of the background pattern and the at least three fiducials remaining on the first image bearing surface after the step of transferring; and, d) calculating at least one calibration parameter for the printing system based on the measuring of the first residual image. | 08-11-2011 |
20110211210 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including an image reading unit disposed in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus, an image forming unit disposed below the image reading unit to form an image on a sheet fed from a sheet roll, a pair of flange members attached to both lateral ends of the sheet roll in a width direction of the sheet roll, a sheet roll supporter disposed below the image reading unit in a rear portion of the image forming apparatus to support the sheet roll, an opening through which the sheet roll is set to the sheet roll supporter, and a guide assembly provided at upper and lower parts of the opening to position at least one of the pair of flange members attached to the sheet roll in the width direction to guide the sheet roll to the sheet roll supporter. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211211 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print control apparatus to discharge sheets printed by a printing unit to discharging destinations. The print control apparatus includes a first determination unit, a second determination unit, and a selecting unit. When an input print job is to be executed by the printing unit, the first determination unit determines how many sheets are to be discharged, corresponding to a single copy based on the print job. The second determination unit determines how many discharging destinations are required for discharging the determined number of sheets. If the determined number of discharging destinations is a multiple value, the selecting unit selects multiple discharging destinations located closest to each other as discharging destinations for the sheets printed. The multiple discharging destinations are selected by the selecting unit before the printing unit begins printing operation based on the print job. | 09-01-2011 |
20110222087 | PRINT ORIENTATION OF DOCUMENTS BASED ON DEVICE SENSOR OUTPUT - This is directed to defining the orientation in which a document is printed from the orientation of the device on which the document is displayed. In particular, some electronic devices can have limited user interfaces that do not provide for a simple or elegant interface for defining print settings. To overcome limitations in a displayed user interface, the orientation of an electronic device can be used to define the print orientation of a displayed document. In particular, a motion-sensing component of an electronic device can determine whether the electronic device display is in a portrait or landscape orientation, and define the page orientation of the displayed document to match the determined device orientation. The electronic device can then transmit the document, in the defined page orientation, to a printer system for printing in the desired page orientation. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222088 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control portion includes a CPU and a ROM. The ROM includes a first memory area, a second memory area, and a third memory area. The first memory area stores the correspondence of a user's input operation at a touch panel to a first type of information on image forming processing. The second memory area stores the correspondence of a detection result output from a sensor to the first type of information. The third memory area stores the correspondence of a detection result output from the sensor to a second type of information on the image forming processing. If the touch panel is not faulty, the CPU performs the image forming processing based on the contents of the first and third memory areas. If the touch panel is faulty, the CPU performs the image forming processing based on the contents of the second and third memory areas. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222089 | Continuous paper duplex printer and printing method - In a continuous paper duplex printer, during duplex printing, a printer controller provides image data for odd-numbered and even numbered pages to front surface and back surface image processing apparatuses respectively, and a printing engine prints an image of an odd-numbered page on the front of continuous paper and parallelly forms an image of an even-numbered page different from an even-numbered page subsequent to the odd-numbered page on the back of the front of the continuous paper based on the image data processed by the processing apparatuses. In the continuous paper duplex printer, during single sided printing, the printer controller provides image data for odd-numbered and even numbered pages to the processing apparatuses, but when the image data is provided to one of the processing apparatuses, blank page image data or a blank page instruction is provided to another one of the processing apparatuses. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222090 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING METHOD AND IMAGE READING SYSTEM - To keep track of which process each process job currently exits and when it comes in own charge or which job must be processed, it is necessary to use a workflow system on a PC, and this necessitates to move back and force between the PC and the apparatus, thereby leading to the deterioration of the operational efficiency. An object of the invention is to provide a system in which the apparatus and the workflow server are connected, and by moving forward the processing by using the operation unit of the apparatus, the workflow of the operator in the centralized copy room and the print center of the company can be smoothly moved forward. | 09-15-2011 |
20110228301 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image processing apparatus is connected to a print control device that controls a single printer, the apparatus includes a first generating unit that generates a first corrected image by adding an adjustment image to one of edges in the first direction of the first image such that a length in the first direction is equal to an integral multiple of a predetermined boundary size, a second generating unit that generates a second corrected image by adding the adjustment image to at least one of both edges in the first direction of the second image such that the length in the first direction is equal to an integer multiple of the boundary size, and a transmission unit that transmits the first corrected image and the second corrected image to the print control device. | 09-22-2011 |
20110235075 | DECOLORING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an decoloring apparatus includes: an decoloring processing unit configured to apply decoloring processing decoloring a color of an decolorable colorant; a sheet conveying unit configured to convey a sheet and cause the sheet to pass through the decoloring processing unit; an image reading unit arranged further on an upstream side than the decoloring processing unit in a sheet conveying direction by the sheet conveying unit and configured to read an image formed on the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit; a thickness sensor arranged further on the upstream side than the decoloring processing unit in the sheet conveying direction by the sheet conveying unit and configured to detect thickness of the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying unit; an decolorability determining unit configured to determine, on the basis of a detection result in at least one of the image reading unit and the thickness sensor, executability of the decoloring processing in the decoloring processing unit of the sheet set as a detection target; a storing unit configured to store information indicating a number of sheets determined as decoloring processing unexecutable by the decolorability determining unit; and a display control unit configured to cause a display to screen-display the information stored in the storing unit indicating the number of sheets determined as decoloring processing unexecutable by the decolorability determining unit. | 09-29-2011 |
20110255109 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, in an image forming apparatus and a displaying method for an image forming apparatus, whether a paper is housed in a paper cassette or not is determined, and when it is determined that no paper is housed, a display to instruct manual paper feed is shown on a control panel. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261378 | PRINTING PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The printing processing system of the present invention includes an image data generating unit for generating multiple types of image data, each of which corresponds to each individual purpose of document data, deriving from the document data; and a control unit for executing a control for performing a designated post-process on a sheet of paper on which an image is formed based on the specific type of image data among the multiple types of image data. | 10-27-2011 |
20110279840 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE READING METHOD - An image reading device includes a first conveying unit that sequentially feeds a plurality of media placed in a tray one by one in a conveying direction, a second conveying unit disposed downstream of the first conveying unit in the conveying direction and conveys a medium among the plurality of media fed by the first conveying unit in the conveying direction, and an imaging unit disposed downstream of the second conveying unit in the conveying direction. The imaging unit captures an image of the medium conveyed thereto and generates image data of the medium. | 11-17-2011 |
20110279841 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING MARKING LABELS - A multifunction device for prefabricating marking labels, having a top side configured to be printed on and a bottom side opposite the top side with a profiling, includes a printing device and at least one of a separating device and a perforation device. A feeder unit is configured to feed blank marking labels of a finite-length or endless material. A holder element including a recess is configured to receive the marking labels, including the profiling, so as to fix the marking labels in position during a passing over of the printing device and the at least one of the separating device and perforation device. | 11-17-2011 |
20120002227 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A value for determining a type of a recording medium is compared with a detection result, and the type of the recording medium is confirmed when there is no detection result within a predetermined range. Thus, by controlling the number of recording media to be detected for confirming the type of the recording medium according to the determination result of the recording media, a drop in productivity during determination of the types of the recording media is reduced. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002228 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit, a second image forming unit. In combined processing to perform two types of processing including one-sided image formation and two-sided image formation, if the one-sided image formation is performed, an image is formed on one side of the sheet by the second image forming unit. If there is an execution request for a job of one-sided image formation processing different from a combined job of the combined processing during execution of the combined job, the image formation control unit, while performing the one-sided image formation in the combined job of the combined processing by the second image forming unit, performs the one-sided image formation related to the execution request for the job of the one-sided image formation processing different from the combined job by the first image forming unit and then discharges from the intermediate discharge unit a sheet which has undergone the one-sided image formation processing in the job different from the combined job. | 01-05-2012 |
20120044513 | Image reader for use in an image forming apparatus, and contamination check method of guide film for the same - An image forming apparatus having an image reading table includes a document glass installed on an upper side of the image reading table, to support a document; an image reading sensor installed under the document glass, to perform an image reading operation; a cover to selectively cover the document glass; an automatic document feeder (ADF) to feed a document along an image reading path, past the image reading sensor; a document discharging plate to support a document discharged from the ADF; a first guide member; a guide film attached to the first guide member; and an image forming part to form the image on a printable medium. The guide film includes a first guide film portion and a second guide film portion, the first guide film portion is in planar contact with the document glass and the second guide film portion guides the document toward the ADF. | 02-23-2012 |
20120062919 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A print control device including a sheet-base printing speed table that indicates a sheet-base printing speed for each printer; a printing time calculation unit that calculates a printing time associated with a print job based on a printing speed corresponding to a sheet used for the print job by referencing the sheet-base printing speed table; and a first display control unit that displays the print job in a predetermined display mode that has a length proportional to the printing time that is calculated. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069365 | PRINTING QUALITY INSPECTION APPARATUS - This invention discloses a printing quality inspection apparatus including a light irradiation device, an image capture device, a diffusely reflecting plate, and a determination device. When a member to be printed is a first sheet member, light emitted by the light irradiation device is diffusely reflected by the first sheet member and enters the image capture device. When the member to be printed is a second sheet member, the light emitted by the light irradiation device is diffusely reflected by the diffusely reflecting plate, is specularly reflected by the second sheet member, and enters the image capture device. | 03-22-2012 |
20120081726 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes the following elements. An image information generator generates, in response to an instruction, print image information to print plural pieces of image information in parallel in plural columns. A division manager divides the print image information into regions, each region having a length equal to the greatest common divisor of lengths of the image information. A manager manages, every time a printing operation is performed, the regions subjected to the printing operation such that the regions are divided into print guaranteed regions and print non-guaranteed regions. A print restart region determining unit determines, upon detection of an occurrence of an abnormality during the printing operation, a print restart region after recovery from the abnormality is completed on the basis of the print guaranteed regions and the regions of the print image information. | 04-05-2012 |
20120133963 | IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image reader includes a path switching part, located at a branch point that switches between a double-sided path and a single-sided path. The double-sided path defines a conveyance route that passes through a reading position from the branch point to enter a conveyance path that causes a document to make a U-turn, and then again passes through the reading position to be discharged to a paper discharge tray. The single-sided path defines a conveyance route that, without passing through the reading position, merges into the conveyance path from the branch point. Along the double-sided path, document detecting sensors provide detection results so that a collision determination part determines a possibility of a collision between documents, and if such a possibility is determined, the path switching part switches the double-sided path to the single-sided path to prevent the documents from colliding head-on with each other in the vicinity of the reading position | 05-31-2012 |
20120140254 | LATERAL SHIFT CORRECTING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording medium conveying mechanism configured to convey a recording medium; a registration roller configured to correct the direction of the recording medium; a first sensor set upstream in a recording medium conveying direction of the registration roller; an image forming section configured to form an image on the conveyed recording medium; and a lateral shift correcting apparatus set downstream of the image forming section and configured to correct the position of the recording medium in an oblique direction by an angle corresponding to a lateral shift amount of the recording medium detected by the first sensor. | 06-07-2012 |
20120154838 | SHEET FINISHER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND SHEET FINISHING METHOD - A sheet finisher of the invention includes a saddle-stitching unit to stitch a center of a sheet bundle, a folding unit to fold the center and to form a fold, a first and a second rollers that move along a direction of the fold while nipping and pressing the fold of the sheet bundle and reinforce the fold, and a drive section to move the first and the second rollers along the fold from a standby position apart from an edge of the sheet bundle, and the first and the second rollers are separate from each other in a thickness direction of the sheet bundle at the standby position, and after the first and the second rollers reach to a position where they pass the edge of the sheet bundle of a processable maximum size, they come close to each other in the thickness direction and nip the fold. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162678 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a reading section, a temporary memory, a thumbnail creating section, a finish-image creating section, a display section, a page selecting section, an image editing section, and a printing section. The image data generated by the reading section is temporarily stored in the temporary memory. The thumbnail creating section creates thumbnails on the basis of the image data and displays the thumbnails on the display section. The finish-image creating section creates a stereoscopic image of a finish state of a print according to a finishing instruction and displays the stereoscopic image on the display section. The page selecting section selects an arbitrary page among the thumbnails. The image editing section edits image data of the selected page. The printing section prints the image data stored in the temporary memory. | 06-28-2012 |
20120176634 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a document read by a reading unit is blank. The printing apparatus controls a printing unit to perform print processing based on image data corresponding to a document that has been determined not to be blank by the determination unit, and controls the printing unit not to perform print processing based on image data corresponding to document that has been determined to be blank by the determination unit. The printing apparatus discharges a sheet, on which print processing has been performed based on image data corresponding to a document, subsequent to the document that has been determined to be blank by the determination unit, which has been determined not to be blank by the determination unit, to be distinguishable from a sheet that has already been discharged. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182565 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a print instruction for printing a plurality of pages, a determination unit configured to determine whether a type of print paper designated by the print instruction is carbonless copy paper, and an assignment unit configured to assign to each of the plurality of pages, if the determination unit determines that the type of print paper designated by the print instruction is carbonless copy paper, carbonless copy paper with an attribute that corresponds to a position of each page within the plurality of pages. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182566 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a user sets, through an operation unit, an inspection item of inspection processing which inspects a print state by reading image data by the image reading unit from a sheet output from a printer unit and conveyed by conveyance rollers, an inspection control unit of an inspection unit changes a sheet conveyance speed in the inspection unit and sheet feeding timing according to the inspection item. A print medium conveyance control unit controls drive of conveyance rollers according to the sheet conveyance speed and the sheet feeding timing. | 07-19-2012 |
20120188571 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control method for a control apparatus includes obtaining an amount of a recording material applied on a first area of a sheet and an amount of a recording material applied on a second area of the sheet on the basis of image data recorded on the sheet stacked on a stacking unit; and performing control, in a case where a plurality of sheets are stacked on the stacking unit, so that a difference between a total amount of the recording material applied on the first area of the sheets and a total amount of the recording material applied on the second area of the sheets does not exceed a predetermined value on the basis of the obtained amount of the recording material. With this method, a limit of the number of stacked sheets is relieved while stability of the stacked sheets is maintained. | 07-26-2012 |
20120194834 | PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM, PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing control program is disclosed which causes a computer to function as a calculating unit; a page data generating unit which generates page data for outputting unused tab sheets; a job data generating unit which generates one job data set into which a first data job set and a second data set are combined, the first job data set being for outputting a printed output to a first sheet-discharging destination based on manuscript submission data and the second job data set being for outputting the unused tab sheet to a second sheet-discharging destination based on the page data; and a job data transmitting unit which transmits the one job data set to a job management unit which causes information on job data to be displayed on a display apparatus. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194835 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - When a sheet P is jammed after start of a print job, it is determined whether an automatic resumption mode for automatically resuming the print job is set. When a determination result of this determination is affirmative, the print job is resumed after the jam is released. When the determination result is negative, the print job is stopped. | 08-02-2012 |
20120200872 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides a printing apparatus which controls power to be supplied to each connected apparatus in detail for each apparatus in accordance with the processing contents of a print job to be executed, and a control method therefor. To accomplish this, the printing apparatus analyzes the processing contents of a print job to be executed. In accordance with the analysis result, the printing apparatus controls at least one of a plurality of sheet feeding apparatuses which supplies a printing medium to the printing apparatus and a plurality of post-processing apparatuses which are receives a printing medium from the printing apparatus to shift to an active state in which normal power is supplied, a power saving state in which power necessary to convey a printing medium is supplied, or an inactive state in which no power is supplied. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200873 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - An information processing apparatus and method control execution of jobs performed by a printing apparatus and by a post-processing apparatus that performs a post-processing in which printed matters printed by the printing apparatus are used. Based on a plurality of jobs that designate the execution of printing with the printing apparatus and a post-processing with the post-processing apparatus, the apparatus acquires post-processing step information for the post-processing apparatus designated by the jobs, as well as sheet feed/discharge information related to paper feed to the post-processing apparatus and paper discharge from the post-processing apparatus, and determines whether the front of the printed matter discharged from the printing apparatus is face-up or face-down, as well, as the order in which the jobs are to be executed in the post-processing on the basis of the post-processing step information and the sheet feed/discharge information. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200874 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD - An electronic apparatus includes a main body of the electronic apparatus; an operation unit including an operation block having a display unit, the operation block being detachable with respect to the main body of the electronic apparatus, and the operation block enabling at least a bidirectional wireless communication with the main body of the electronic apparatus; and a detection unit configured to detect relative positional information between the operation block and the main body of the electronic apparatus, when the operation block is detached from the main body of the electronic apparatus. The operation block being detached from the main body of the electronic apparatus is able to display information corresponding to the relative positional information on the display unit, in accordance with a condition of the main body of the electronic apparatus. | 08-09-2012 |
20120224200 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POS TERMINAL - Embodiments described herein relate to an electronic device including a device body, a touch panel type display unit, a printing unit, and a discharge port. The touch panel type display unit is attached to the device body through a support shaft and rotates about the support shaft to change a posture thereof to a first state in which the display unit is laid along an upper surface of the device body or to a second state in which the display unit is standing from the upper surface of the device body. The printing unit is installed within the device body and performs a printing operation on a medium based on a touch manipulation of the touch panel type display unit. The discharge port is provided adjacent to the support shaft in the touch panel type display unit and discharges the medium printed by the printing unit. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224201 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD THEREOF - A printing device includes a printer body, a print unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The printer body includes a discharge port from which the printed medium is discharged. The print unit is provided within the printer body and configured to perform a printing operation on a medium. The detecting unit is configured to detect an installation position of the printer body. The control unit is configured to selectively control a print direction of the medium discharged from the discharge port based on the installation position of the printer body detected by the detecting unit. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224202 | Printer and Printer Control Method - A print data conversion area can be created to reflect that all printed slips are not the same size. A printer includes a conveyance unit that conveys checks with one edge following a guide extending in the conveyance direction, a length detection unit that detects the length of the conveyed check in the conveyance direction, and a conversion area formation unit that creates a print data conversion area to which print data for the entire image to be recorded on the check is written. The conversion area formation unit determines the range of the conversion area with reference to a position corresponding to a particular position on the check using the detected length of the check in the conveyance direction. | 09-06-2012 |
20120229830 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - There are included a converting unit configured to convert print data to a print data image for one side of the sheet; a converting unit configured to convert obtained code information to a code image; a generating unit configured to generate a code-embedded image obtained by synthesizing the code image with the print data image; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not to print the code-embedded image only on one side of the sheet: and a printing unit configured to print the code-embedded image on one side and to print the code image on the other side if the determining unit determines to print only on one side. | 09-13-2012 |
20120236339 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A management apparatus manages a plurality of image forming apparatuses as a connected unit, and receives failure information regarding failure that has been occurred from any one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses included in the connected unit. The management apparatus generates notification information indicating addressing processing for the failure occurred in the plurality of image forming apparatuses included in the connected unit based on the positional relationship among the plurality of image forming apparatuses and the type of the failure indicated by the received failure information, and notifies the generated notification information. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236340 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISCHARGING SHEET IN THE SAME - Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: a main body configured to include a front surface and a rear surface; a printing section provided in the main body and configured to form an image on a sheet according to image data and print-output the sheet; an operation panel configured to include a panel surface for giving an operation input to the printing section; a moving mechanism configured to allow the operation panel to move with respect to the main body; and a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the operation panel about a vertical axis over an angle range including a first angle at which the panel surface faces the front direction and a second angle at which the panel surface faces the rear direction. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236341 | RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A RECORDING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Processes related to jobs received from a control device can be executed efficiently. An inkjet line printer | 09-20-2012 |
20120243014 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus which may include a forming unit configured to form a mark for image adjustment, a conveyor member configured to convey the mark formed by the forming unit and a detecting unit configured to detect the mark conveyed by the conveyor member. Further, the image forming apparatus may include a removing unit configured to remove the mark conveyed by the conveyor member, from the conveyor member; and a control device. According to aspects of the disclosure, after the forming unit has formed a mark for image adjustment, the control device may be configured to determine whether the mark has been removed from the conveyor member and based on the determination of whether the mark has been removed from the conveyor member, begin printing of print data even when the mark has not been completely removed from the conveyor member. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243015 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a maximum document number decision part that decides a number of media that are carried simultaneously on a medium carrying path at the time of double sided printing, a memory part that stores image data of a document, a print data editing part that generates page data to be printed on the media from the image data in the memory part, a print page generation monitoring part that monitors a page data number generated by the print data editing part, a print start timing decision part that decides a print start timing from the number of media and the page data number, a print mechanism controller that starts printing based on the print start timing determined by the print start timing decision part. | 09-27-2012 |
20120250049 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING AND IMPLEMENTING CHANGES IN THE MACHINE SETTINGS OF A PRINT PROCESSING MACHINE - A method, a device, and a computer readable medium may be provided for operating a print processing machine. The print processing machine may have a gross capacity (BP), a net capacity (NP), and/or a number (N) of devices in communication with the print processing machine. The net capacity (NP) may be computed as a function of the gross capacity (BP), the number (N) of devices, a stop rate (SR), a time interval for each stop (TN) and an error rate (FR) according to NP=[1−(BP·SR·N·TN)]·BP−(BP·FR·N). Limit values for errors contained in the stop rate (SR) and/or the error rate (FR) may be received. A maximum value may be determined for the net capacity (NP) by varying the gross capacity (BP) and/or the number (N) of devices without exceeding the limit values. The gross capacity (BP) of the print processing machine and the number (N) of devices may be adjusted to achieve the previously determined maximum value for the net capacity (NP). | 10-04-2012 |
20120257229 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit to read an original document first side, reverse the original document, and read an image on a second side of the original document and includes a control unit. The control unit controls the reading by either a first or second reading method. In the first reading method, after reading a first side of an original document, the reading unit reads a second side of the original document, and in the second reading method, after reading a first side of a first original document and a first side of a subsequent second original document, the reading unit reads a second side of the first original document. In a case where a plurality of original documents are conveyed, reading includes reading the first original document by the first reading method and reading the second and the subsequent original documents by the second reading method. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257230 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a feeding unit, a reading unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the reading unit so that an image on a second side of a first document is read after a first side of the first document is read and a first side of a second document following the first document is read when it is determined that a free capacity of the storing unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined size. Also, the first side of the second document is read after the first side of the first document fed by the feeding unit is read and the image on the second side of the first document is read when it is determined that the free capacity of the storing unit is not equal to or greater than the predetermined size. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257231 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a reading unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The conveyance unit conveys a document via a conveyance path. The reading unit reads an image of a first surface or a second surface of the document conveyed by the conveyance unit. The detection unit detects a conveyance state of the document on the conveyance path. The control unit performs control to display, on a display unit, a position of the document, and front information or back information indicating, respectively, the first surface and the second surface of the document according to the conveyance state of the document detected by the detection unit. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257232 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus for performing job printing includes a reception unit configured to receive information about a print unit with respect to the job and information about an attribute of recording medium to be used in the print processing, and a printing unit configured to print the job using the recording medium by the print unit, using the information about the print unit received by the reception unit and the information about the attribute of the recording medium to be used in the print processing. | 10-11-2012 |
20120262745 | PRINTING SYSTEM INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The printing system is configured so that a sheet discharge unit of a first image forming apparatus is connected to a sheet feeding unit of a second image forming apparatus, and a sheet on which an image is formed by the first image forming apparatus is supplied to the second image forming apparatus changes order of image formation so that data to be printed on the same side is printed on the same side. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262746 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE READING AND FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit configured to feed stacked sheets, a detection unit configured to detect, from a side opposite the sheet feeding unit, sheet movement with respect to the stacked sheets, and a determination unit configured to determine that a sheet being fed by the sheet feeding unit is a last sheet. | 10-18-2012 |
20120274962 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO TROUBLESHOOT MALFUNCTIONS IN MULTIFUNCTION DEVICES USING A WIRELESS HANDHELD DEVICE - The present specification discloses systems and methods for enabling users to troubleshoot multifunction devices using handheld devices, such as mobile phones. In one embodiment, software executing on the handheld device receives data indicative of an error state in a multifunction device, causes the handheld device to obtain and display an image representative of an area of the multifunction device which would need to be serviced to address the error state, determines instructions for addressing the error state, and causes the handheld device to display the instructions in relation to the image representative of an area of the multifunction device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274963 | DELAYED REVIEW OF SCANNED DOCUMENTS USING UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION MARKING ON SCANNED DOCUMENTS - A method and system include a computerized device operatively connected to a multi-function printing device. The multi-function printing device has a scanner, a media path, a printer, etc. The scanner scans a plurality of sheets of media to produce scanned images. The computerized device automatically stores the scanned images, and the media path automatically feeds the sheets of media from the scanner to the printer after the scanner scans the sheets of media. The printer automatically prints unique identification markings on the sheets of media after the scanner scans the sheets of media, such that each of the sheets of media has a different identification marking printed thereon by the printer. The computerized device automatically adds data representing each unique identification marking to each corresponding scanned image stored within the computerized device. When error images (e.g., ones of the sheets of media that were not scanned properly by the scanner) are identified, the computerized device automatically outputs the data representing each the unique identification marking for each of the error images, allowing a user to locate the sheet of media associated with the error image, to permit the improperly scanned sheets to be rescanned. | 11-01-2012 |
20120307274 | Sheet Conveyer Devices, Image Reading Apparatuses, and Image Forming Apparatuses - A sheet conveyer device, including a roller to convey a sheet by rotating in a normal direction and a holder rotatably arranged on a roller shaft, is provided. The holder includes a roller gear system arranged on the roller shaft and having a roller driving gear to drive the roller, a shutter rotatably arranged on a shutter shaft to restrict access of the sheet to the roller, a shutter gear system to connect a path between the roller gear system and the shutter, a one-way clutch to disconnect the path between the roller gear system and the shutter when the roller rotates in the normal direction, and a torque limiter to allow the roller to rotate in a reverse direction. The holder rotates about the roller shaft in the same reverse direction as the roller when the roller rotates in the reverse direction. | 12-06-2012 |
20130010315 | PRINTER CAPABLE OF PREVENTING PAPER JAM - Disclosed is a printer including a transverse tension sensor for detecting that a sheet being discharged has deviated in a paper width direction orthogonal to a discharging direction. The conveyance of the sheet is stopped based on a detection signal of the transverse tension sensor. | 01-10-2013 |
20130021632 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PRINTER DRIVER PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The image forming device of this invention includes a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit determines whether or not data for printing which has been inputted while the power save mode is being executed is data for printing to which a control command is appended that commands the reduction of electrical power consumption. If it is data for printing to which a control command is appended, then the control unit does not execute any image forming operation, but instead stores this data for printing with control command appended in the storage unit. However, if data for printing to which no control command is appended is inputted, then the control unit changes over to the operating mode and, after having performed image forming operation for this data for printing to which no control command is appended, performs image forming operation for that data for printing with control command appended within the storage unit, which has the same identification information as the data for printing to which no control command is appended. | 01-24-2013 |
20130033715 | Image Recording Apparatus - An image recording apparatus includes: a recording portion; a sheet conveyor; a detector; and a controller configured to control the sheet conveyor to stop a first-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the first-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the first-attribute sheet reaches an first-attribute-sheet stopping position; and to control the sheet conveyor to stop a second-attribute sheet in a state in which the sheet conveyor is nipping the second-attribute sheet when the detector has detected that the second-attribute sheet reaches an second-attribute-sheet stopping position which is located on an upstream side of the first-attribute-sheet stopping position in the conveying direction. | 02-07-2013 |
20130070270 | PRINTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a storage unit configured to store image data transferred from a high level device; a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of a printing medium and output a notification of a printable state when the printing medium is conveyed to reach a predetermined printable state; a printing unit configured to print the image data stored in the storage unit on the printing medium in response to the notification of the printable state output from the conveyance control unit; and a printing control unit configured to create print setting information including conveyance control information to control conveyance of the printing medium from printing information specified from the high level device and transmit the print setting information at least to the conveyance control unit. The conveyance control unit controls conveyance of the printing medium in accordance with the conveyance control information included in the print setting information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077109 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide a printing system for selecting a sheet storage unit to be used in printing by ignoring a grouping setting set to the sheet storage unit in a case where a print job in which a sheet size is designated is received. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077110 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD - A multi-function peripheral generates, in the case of executing print processing for inserting paper that separates a first sheet on which printing is performed by a first print job and a second sheet on which printing is performed by a second print job that is executed after the first print job, print data including charging information of the first print job or the second print job, and executes print processing for printing on the inserting paper the generated print data, thereby inserting paper for separating sheets on which printing is performed by different print jobs is not only used as merely inserting paper, but utilized effectively as a business document, so that assortment and shipment preparation of printed sheets are facilitated, while clerical work such as recording of expenses is performed promptly and precisely. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077111 | Image Forming Apparatus For Displaying Guidance - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a detecting section configured to detect information concerning a sheet, a control section configured to set image guidance according to a result of the detection by the detecting section, and a display section configured to display the image guidance set by the control section. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083336 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE - An image scanning device includes a scanning unit configured to scan, at a scanning position, an image of a document, a first discharge portion, a second discharge portion, a conveying unit configured to selectively convey the document along a first conveying path from the scanning position to the first discharge portion, and along a second conveying path from the scanning position to the second discharge portion, a driving unit configured to generate a driving force for driving the conveying unit, and a cover member configured to receive the driving force generated by the driving unit such that the cover member moves between a closed position for covering the second discharge portion and an open position for exposing the second discharge portion. | 04-04-2013 |
20130120778 | PAPER-FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A paper-feeding device, during a paper leading edge detection interval that includes an expected point in time of arrival of a paper leading edge at a paper sensor installation location, and during a paper trailing edge detection interval that includes an expected point in time of passage of a paper trailing edge, allows the signal level of a paper detection signal that is outputted to a main body section to fluctuate on the basis of an actual output value of a paper sensor, and during a transition interval from the paper leading edge detection interval to the paper trailing edge detection interval, locks the paper detection signal that is outputted to the main body section, to the signal level at the end of the paper leading edge detection interval. | 05-16-2013 |
20130135641 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - A feeder feeds a first recording medium in a first direction. A curved guide guides the first recording medium fed by the feeder upward along a first path. An upper guide receives a leading edge of the first recording medium, guided by the curved guide, and guides the first recording medium in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction. An insertion guide guides, along a second path, a second recording medium inserted from an opening. A conveying unit disposed downstream of the upper guide in the second direction conveys the first recording medium and the second recording medium to a recording unit which records an image on each recording medium supported by a supporting unit. A deflecting member has a surface inclined with respect to the second direction and deflects a leading edge of the second recording medium, guided by the insertion guide, upward toward the upper guide. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135642 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The invention provides a technique which allows high-quality printing. An image processing apparatus for forming an image by executing N printing scans for a single region on a printing medium, comprises: a readout unit configured to read out image data of a region corresponding to a k-th printing scan from input image data; a print data generation unit configured to generate print data from the image data by halftone processing; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain position fluctuation information of dots in a preceding printing scan, wherein the readout unit controls a readout position of the region corresponding to the k-th printing scan in accordance with the position fluctuation information at the time of the preceding printing scan obtained by the obtaining unit. | 05-30-2013 |
20130148143 | INSPECTION APPARATUS, INSPECTION METHOD, INSPECTION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An inspection apparatus which inspects an image determines a type of a printing error based on characteristics of a place where the printing error has occurred, and controls a printing apparatus according to the determined type of printing error. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148144 | Image Forming Apparatus that Prints an Image on a Recording Medium Set for Manual Feed - An image forming apparatus includes: a manual feed detecting unit that detects if a recording medium is set in a manual medium feeding unit; a print data receiving unit that receives print data; a medium orientation setting unit that receives an instruction for an orientation of the recording medium to be fed from the manual medium feeding unit, and sets the orientation; a printing control unit that controls the printing device to print an image based on the print data and executes a manual feed forcing operation if the manual feed detecting unit has detected the recording medium; and an image generating unit that generates the image based on the print data and determines an orientation of the image based on the orientation of the recording medium. | 06-13-2013 |
20130155432 | SCANNING AND PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF SCANNING AND PRINTING - A scanning and printing device for scanning a first paper and printing a second paper is provided. The scanning and printing device includes a carriage, a sensing module, and a printing module. The carriage slides back and forth along an axial direction. The carriage has a top surface and a base surface opposite to each other. The top surface faces the first paper, and the base surface faces the second paper. The sensing module is disposed on the top surface of the carriage to capture an image on the first paper. The printing module is disposed on the base surface of the carriage to print the image to the second paper. | 06-20-2013 |
20130194596 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a printing function, a scanner function, and a control unit. In the printing function, a printed material acquired by recording image data included in a printing job received through a network on a recording paper is discharged. In the scanner function, the image data is acquired by reading a manuscript. The control unit judges whether the scanner function is in use for a long time (step A | 08-01-2013 |
20130208290 | CHECKING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF CHECKING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A checking system includes a checking unit and a control unit. The checking unit checks a print product, printed by a printing unit, by using a reading unit to read the print product. The control unit perform controls. In response to the reading unit being normal and the checking unit determining a print product as normal, the print product is discharged to a first sheet discharging unit. In response to the reading unit being normal and the checking unit determining a print product as abnormal, the print product is discharged to a second sheet discharging unit that is different from the first sheet discharging unit. In response to the reading unit being abnormal, the print product is discharged to a third sheet discharging unit that is different from the first sheet discharging unit and the second sheet discharging unit. | 08-15-2013 |
20130222826 | SHEET CONVEYANCE UNIT, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveyance unit including a sheet tray on which a stack of sheets is placed, a sheet feed member to feed sheets from the stack of sheets, a separation/feed unit to separate a topmost sheet from the rest of sheets fed by the sheet feed member and feed the topmost sheet to a predetermined position, and a pre-separation unit disposed between the sheet tray and the separation/feed unit. The pre-separation unit includes a downward sloped portion to guide a leading edge of each sheet diagonally downward, and an upward sloped portion provided downstream from the downward sloped portion in a conveyance direction of the sheets to guide the leading edge of each sheet diagonally upward. Both ends of the upward sloped portion in a lateral direction are sloped upward more gently than the center of the upward sloped portion. | 08-29-2013 |
20130235399 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMPLOYING DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING TO OPTIMIZE DYNAMIC OPERATIONS IN COMPLEX IMAGE FORMING AND MEDIA HANDLING DEVICES - A system and method are provided to find feasible and correct image forming flow paths for complex image forming systems by categorizing all possible orientations, in two dimensions for imaging operations, and in three dimensions for media handling operations, according to mathematical representations that can then be manipulated by matrix algebra. A given input orientation is provided as an input logic state and a desired output orientation is provided as an output logic state, each being defined according to a mathematical representation. A declarative programming scheme is applied that uses matrix algebra to manipulate the input mathematical representation in order to determine feasible, optimized, and possibly constrained operations to achieve the output mathematical representation. This approach abandons the time-consuming, haphazard, and fragile conventional approach of describing orientations descriptively, and inconsistently and then applying a trial and error method to arrive at a desired output state. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING ORIENTATION FLOW GRAPHS IN THREE DIMENSIONS IN COMPLEX DOCUMENT HANDLING AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICES - A system and method are provided for automatically defining composite orthogonal orientation transformation matrices for operations along multiple processing paths in document handling and image forming systems using orientation flow graphs in three dimensions. Individual nodes between operations or component devices in the system are identified. Individual operations that occur in the component devices between the identified individual nodes are described. Mathematical representations associated with each of the individual operations are specified. For a given path, the mathematical representations associated with each of the individual operations along that path, between each pair of nodes, are matrix multiplied to render a composite transformation matrix that represents an overall change in an orthogonal orientation along each of the individual processing paths. An inverse of the composite transformation matrix is applied to a mathematical representation of an output orthogonal orientation to define pre-flight conditions for image receiving media. | 09-12-2013 |
20130265600 | SHEET LOADING UNIT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - The present disclosure includes a pair of cursor members movable in a width direction, and guide grooves configured to guide the cursor member to move in the width direction. The cursor member includes a cursor base, a cursor rising portion being in contact with or in proximity to an end of the sheet, and a connecting portion. The cursor base has a cursor plane extending in parallel to a sheet loading face with a difference of step with respect to the sheet loading face. An edge in the width direction of the cursor base extends linearly. The connecting portion extends from the sheet loading face side to a reverse side via the guide groove at a portion in the feeding direction of the inside edge of the cursor base. The connecting portion has a face connecting portion which connects the sheet loading face with the cursor plane smoothly. | 10-10-2013 |
20130286415 | PRINT MEDIA LOADING SYSTEM FOR A PRINTER - The invention relates to a print media loading system for a printer, wherein the printer includes a print media input, a print media output, and a print media path located between the print media input and the print media output. The print media loading system comprises a print media drive mechanism associated with the print media input, and print media output device associated with the print media output. The print media output device is operatively coupled to the print media drive mechanism so as to control feeding of the print media through the print media path by actuation of the print media output device. The invention also provides a corresponding printing system and a method of loading print media into a printer. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293907 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording material; an original read unit for reading an original at a read position facing a conveyance path in which the recording material and the original are to be conveyed selectively, and a control unit for switching a position of the original read unit to a position different from the read position during a period in which the recording material is being conveyed along the conveyance path. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293908 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention provides a technique of preventing a collision between an original document and a printing material on a conveyance path which is partially shared for conveyance of them in an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus of one aspect of this invention, which includes a printing unit configured to convey a printing material via at least part of a conveyance path used for original document reading processing, and execute printing processing of an image on the printing material, executes if the original document reading processing is not being executed when the printing processing of the image on the printing material is instructed, the printing processing without waiting for completion of the reading processing, and executes, if the original document reading processing is being executed, the printing processing upon completion of the reading processing. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293909 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes a conveyance path that is used to convey a recording material to form an image on the recording material, a reading unit that reads an original conveyed in the conveyance path, and a control unit that controls a recording material conveyance operation to selectively convey the recording material and the original to the conveyance path. | 11-07-2013 |
20130308146 | USE OF SCANNER UNIT FOR PAPER TRAY PREPROCESSING - Methods and systems feed print media from a print media storage device to a scanner positioned along a paper path, and feed the print media along the paper path from the scanner to a marking device positioned along the paper path. The scanner is positioned between the print media storage device and the marking device along the media path. The scanner scans the print media as the print media travels along the paper path before the print media reaches the marking device. The methods and systems control actions of the marking device based upon patterns of markings detected on the print media by the scanner using a processor operatively connected to the scanner and the marking engine, and print markings on the print media using the marking device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130321829 | CAMERA ON MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER - A multifunction printer includes an image capture apparatus including an image capture platform for holding an object of which an image is to be captured; a lid having a closed position in which the lid is proximate the image capture platform, and an open position in which the lid is away from the image capture platform; and a camera that is pivotably affixed to the lid; and a printing apparatus including: a media advance system for advancing a sheet of media to a print region; and a printhead. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329241 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a printing apparatus including two types of sheet storage unit, one capable of detecting a size of a sheet and the other not capable of detecting a size of a sheet, a possibility of outputting a print product which is not intended by a user is reduced. A method for controlling a printing apparatus includes feeding a sheet from a first sheet storage unit, feeding a sheet from a second sheet storage unit, and performing control to feed a sheet in such a way that a sheet is fed preferentially from a second sheet storage unit which is provided with a sensor for detecting a size of a sheet rather than from a first sheet storage unit which is not provided with a sensor for detecting a size of a sheet based on whether each sheet storage unit is provided with a sensor. | 12-12-2013 |
20130342863 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with the post-processing apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes an execution unit configured to execute a shift processing for shifting the image forming apparatus into a power saving state, a notification unit configured to notify the post-processing apparatus of an instruction to stop supply of power to the post-processing apparatus, and a power control unit configured to control the supply of power to the execution unit. The notification unit is configured, if the supply of power to the notification unit is stopped in a case where the execution unit is executing the shift processing, to control so that power is supplied to the notification unit. The notification unit supplied with power notifies the post-processing apparatus of the instruction. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002832 | Reliable High-Speed Duplex-Printing Mode | 01-02-2014 |
20140029030 | Graphic Alignment For Printing to An Article Using A First Display Device And A Second Display Device - A flexible manufacturing system for an article of footwear includes a printing system for printing graphics onto the footwear. The flexible manufacturing system includes a first display device that is transparent and which may be used to superimpose graphics over an article to align the article with the printing system. An optical device and a second display device provide a fixed viewing angle for a user aligning the article under the first display device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140036286 | RECORDING SYSTEM, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND OPTION DEVICE - Each of a plurality of option devices includes a signal changing unit connected to a first control unit of a recording apparatus without a second control unit of another option device and configured to change a signal supplied from the first control unit, and a communication line configured to connect the first control unit and the second control unit without the second control unit of another option device. The first control unit determines the number of the option devices by inputting a signal to the signal changing unit in each of the plurality of option devices. After that, in the case where communication can be performed between the first and second control units, it is determined that the second control unit of the option device is normal. In the case where the communication cannot be performed, it is determined that the second control unit is faulty. | 02-06-2014 |
20140063517 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus having a plurality of paper feed units and a control method thereof that displays a paper selection screen for displaying a page of items of information of the paper feed units and selecting a paper to be used in print processing by selecting an item of the items of information in the page displayed on the paper selection screen. Items of information of the plurality of paper feed units are divided into a plurality of pages. The apparatus and method control the display unit to display a page among the plurality of pages in accordance with a status of the image forming apparatus in a case that the display unit displays the paper selection screen. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063518 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE CAPABLE OF DISCHARGING SHEET FROM CONVEYING PATH AT STARTUP - A sheet conveying device includes: a conveying unit; a nonvolatile memory; and a controller. The conveying unit is configured to convey a sheet along a conveying path. The controller is configured to control the conveying unit to convey the sheet, store position data in the nonvolatile memory during conveyance of the sheet, determine whether or not the sheet conveying device is started, and drive the conveying unit for an amount determined by the position data if the sheet conveying device is started. The conveying path is divided into a plurality of segments. The position data identifies a segment in which the sheet stays. The more downstream the segment identified by the position data is in the conveying path, the smaller the amount determined by the position data is. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071469 | MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE - A multifunction device includes a case having a document tray provided in an upper part, a cover section provided above the case and covering the document tray, a reading section held in an inside part of the case and scanning a document that is placed in the document tray, a recording section held in the inside of the case and recording on a paper as a recoding medium, an inserting section inserting the document between the document tray and the cover section, and an opening section for discharging a recording medium provided in the case and discharging the paper recorded by the recording section. The inserting section functions as an exit that discharges the document from between the document tray and the cover section. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071470 | Image Reading Apparatus - An image reading apparatus may include a cable for connecting one device or component to a controller configured to perform functions and execute instructions. To prevent breakage and stress on the cable, the cable may be fixed to a guide component. For example, the cable may be fixed to the guide component on a first side and be held by the component such that the cable includes a generally U-shaped slacked portion. According to one or more arrangements, the guide component may include an escape portion that allows for the movement of an openable unit of the image reading apparatus. In yet other aspects, the guide component may be attachable/detachable from a main body of the image reading apparatus. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078528 | SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE, IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A sheet conveying device includes a sheet stacking portion on which sheets are to be stacked, a sheet conveyance path, a sheet feeding member, a driving unit, a stopper and an interlocking unit. The sheet is conveyed from the sheet stacking portion in a predetermined conveying direction in the sheet conveyance path. The sheet feeding member is arranged at an entrance side of the sheet conveyance path and conveys the sheet by being driven and rotated. The stopper is projectable into and retractable from the sheet conveyance path at a side upstream of the sheet feeding member in the conveying direction and prevents the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking portion from coming into contact with the sheet feeding member in a projecting state. The interlocking unit causes the stopper to project into and retract from the sheet conveyance path in accordance with rotational movements of the sheet feeding member. | 03-20-2014 |
20140098389 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a printing head for making printing on a medium; a platen disposed as to face the printing head in a way selectable between being close and being remote from the printing head; a medium conveying unit changeable of a contacting state to the medium for conveying the medium in contact with the medium along a medium conveyance route; a shutter opening and closing the medium conveyance route; a mode selecting unit having plural selectable modes in combination of a choice between being close to and being remote from the platen, the contacting state of the medium conveying unit to the medium, and a choice between closing and opening of the medium conveyance route by means of the shutter; and a controller controlling the mode selecting unit for selecting a prescribed mode from the plural selectable modes. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098390 | MEDIUM PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - A receiver configured to receive a first command that contains a predetermined code string and a second command that does not contain the predetermined code string from a host computer. A first command analyzer configured to analyze and process only the first command received by the receiver. A buffer configured to temporarily store at least the second command received by the receiver. A second command analyzer configured to analyze and process the second command stored by the buffer. A sound generator configured to generate a sound when the first command analyzer analyzes the first command and determines that the first command includes a sound generating command. The first command analyzer analyzes the first command before the buffer temporarily stores the first command. | 04-10-2014 |
20140104629 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium, an output unit that outputs the recording medium on which the image has been formed while providing the recording medium with a wave-like shape in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to a transport direction of the recording medium, and a member having an opening through which the recording medium is output. The opening has a shape corresponding to the wave-like shape of the recording medium provided by the output unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140111819 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a printing apparatus having a plurality of sheet feeding units, and method of controlling the printing apparatus. When a print job including paper feed source information is received, paper information set for the sheet feeding unit designated by the paper feed source information is obtained, and stored together with data of this print job. Also, when execution of the stored print job is instructed, a sheet feeding unit that accommodates a sheet having the paper information is selected, and control is performed such that a sheet is fed from the selected sheet feeding unit, and the stored print job is executed on the fed sheet. | 04-24-2014 |
20140118762 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium; an inverting transport unit to invert first and second surfaces of the recording medium, and front and rear ends of the recording medium to transport the inverted recording medium; a recording medium width measuring unit to measure an end position of the recording medium in a width direction orthogonal to a transporting direction of the recording medium at a measuring position having an approximately identical distance from one end of the recording medium in the transporting direction before and after the image is formed on the recording medium; and a correcting unit to correct an image to be formed on a subsequent recording medium based on a change in a shape of the recording medium computed based on a measured result from the recording medium width measuring unit. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118763 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a document size detecting section, a recording medium size selecting section, and a control section. When one of a pair of image data sets to be placed on both sides of a common recording medium by image formation of the image forming section is greater in length of the document size detected by the document size detecting section than the other, the recording medium size selecting section selects, as a size of the recording medium for the pair of image data sets, a size greater in length than the other image data set. When the other image data set is to be formed as an image on a page preceding the one image data set, the control section allows the image forming section to form the image on an area from a leading edge to a middle of the recording medium. | 05-01-2014 |
20140139857 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus causes a sheet processing apparatus to eject a sheet before a process of a job starts when the process for ejecting the sheet is set for the job, before the process of the job starts. A control method for controlling a printing apparatus includes determining whether a setting unit has made, for a job, a setting to cause the sheet processing apparatus to eject the sheet printed with the printing apparatus and discharged to the sheet processing apparatus, before the printing apparatus starts processing the job, and controlling the sheet processing apparatus to eject the sheet before the printing apparatus starts processing the job when it is determined that the setting unit has made, for the job, the setting to cause the sheet processing apparatus to eject the sheet. | 05-22-2014 |
20140153013 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus comprises a first detecting unit configured to detect an object, a power control unit configured to shift the image processing apparatus from a second power state to a first power state which consumes more power than the second power state when the first detecting unit detects an object, and a second detecting unit configured to detect a sheet ejected to a sheet ejecting unit. The power control unit does not shift the image processing apparatus to the first power state when the second detecting unit no longer detects the sheet before a lapse of a predetermined period of time after the first detecting unit detects an object. The power control unit shifts the image processing apparatus to the first power state when the second detecting unit detects the sheet before a lapse of the predetermined period of time after the first detecting unit detects an object. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153014 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SETTING INSERT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus capable of realizing setting of an insert including an interleaf sheet and a chapter sheet, on an image forming apparatus, by an intuitive operation similar to an actual insertion operation. An operation terminal includes a touch screen display and a network communication section which communicates with an MFP, and is capable of performing an operation on the MFP concerning document printing, and setting an insert to a printed matter to be printed by the MFP. When a user's drag operation causes insertion of an insert image displayed on the touch screen display between adjacent preview images of pages of the printed matter displayed on the same, the insert image is set as an interleaf sheet, and when the operation causes superimposing of the insert image on a preview image, the insert image is set as a chapter sheet. | 06-05-2014 |
20140168679 | CONVEYER DEVICE - A conveyer device, including a body; a first path member forming a part of conveyer path with a curve; and a second path member arranged on an inner side of the curve of the conveyer path and forming a part of the conveyer path, is provided. The first path member is movable between a first position forming the conveyer path in conjunction with the second path member and a second position separated farther from second path member than the first position. The body includes a first supporting part supporting the first path member at a widthwise end of the first path member and the second supporting part supporting the first path member at a widthwise inner-side position along the widthwise direction with respect to the first supporting part. The second supporting part supports the first path member from a side opposite from the conveyer path. | 06-19-2014 |
20140176971 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming device includes a residual paper amount detecting unit, a first execution unit and a second execution unit. The residual paper amount detecting unit is configured to detect a residual paper amount of a paper feeding cassette which retains papers. The first execution unit is configured to, if the number of papers required in executing an initially-inputted earliest job among a plurality of print jobs is more than the residual paper amount detected by the residual paper amount detecting unit, execute printing of a predetermined minimum number of printing papers in the earliest job. The second execution unit is configured to, after the printing of the minimum number of printing papers is executed by the first execution unit, execute one of the print jobs satisfying a predetermined priority condition. | 06-26-2014 |
20140198329 | DOCUMENT FINISHING ARCHITECTURE (DFA) MASTER CONTROLLER - A Document Finishing Architecture Master controller includes an input communication link enabling two-way communication with a document-handling device. The document-handling device is restricted to connections with document finishing devices (DFDs) connected in series. Output communication links are operatively connected to the input communication link. The output communication links enable two-way communication over parallel communication networks with the DFDs. A translator is operatively connected to the output communication link, and driver interfaces are operatively connected to the translator. Document-finishing signals originating from the document-handling device are translated by the translator to a protocol used by the DFDs. The document-finishing signals are communicated from the translator to the driver interfaces, and from the driver interface to the DFDs. DFD signals from the DFDs are translated by the translator to a protocol used by the document-handling device. The DFD signals are communicated from the driver interfaces to the translator and from the translator to the document-handling device. | 07-17-2014 |
20140211225 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus which performs a printing job and an erasing job is provided. Included is a control unit which, in a case of performing the other job after any one of the printing job and the erasing job, controls a transporting unit of the sheet so that the sheet for the other job is transported to a predetermined standby position from a sheet feeding unit while the one job is performed. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211226 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes: a tray selection unit configured, based on print size information designated in print data, to select one of medium trays; an edit region setup unit configured, when the size of the print medium in the selected medium tray is different from print medium corresponding to the designated print medium size, to analyze the print data based on an orientation of the print medium in the selected medium tray and to set an edit region of the print data; a drawing unit configured, on the basis of the print data and the edit region, to create image data within the edit region; and an image formation unit configured to print the image data on the print medium fed from the selected medium tray. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218755 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming section, a conveyance section, a position detecting section, an abnormality detecting section and a control section. When determining as the first determination that it is possible to eject each of the paper sheets and/or the image-formed paper sheets outside and determining as the second determination that it is necessary to re-output the new image-formed paper sheet, the control section incompletely ejects each of the retention paper sheets, remaining within the image forming apparatus, outside from the ejection opening. By controlling the apparatus as above-mentioned, even in a case where it is impossible to eject the concerned paper sheet onto a separate tray, it becomes possible to prevent the retention paper sheet from remaining at an apparatus-inner position, from which it is difficult for the user to remove the retention paper sheet concerned. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233049 | TEST CHART USED FOR CALIBRATION IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Multiple measurement images are formed in a test chart. Reflected light from the test patterns is received by light receiving elements of a color sensor for an accumulation time that is determined for the respective test patterns. The lengths of the test patterns in the conveyance direction of the test chart are determined according to the lengths of the accumulation times for the respective test patterns. | 08-21-2014 |
20140240733 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TOP OF FORM - A system and method for determining top of form while printing on continuous feed media. In one embodiment, a computer-readable storage device is encoded with instructions that when executed cause a processor to: 1) cause a selected printer to produce a print on continuous feed media; 2) determine, based on a compensation factor that accounts for movement of the continuous feed media through the printer in excess of a length of the data of the print, the distance to advance the continuous feed media such that a succeeding print starts at a top of form location of the continuous feed media; and 3) cause the selected printer to advance the continuous feed media in accordance with the determined distance to advance such that the succeeding print starts at the top of form location of the continuous feed media. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240734 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming apparatus includes an input unit to receive printing data, a controller to determine a duplex printing mode to be applied to the printing data from among a plurality of duplex printing modes and an engine waiting time according to a feature of the input printing data and performance of the image forming apparatus, an image processor to perform image-processing of the input printing data, and an image former to print the image-processed printing data based on the determined duplex printing mode and the determined engine waiting time. | 08-28-2014 |
20140253932 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PERFORMING IMAGE ROTATION - An image forming apparatus includes an image rotation processor and an image combination unit. The image rotation processor is configured to: rotate the form image such that the direction of the upper edge of the document image on the first page matches a direction of an upper edge of a form image if the direction of the upper edge of the document image on the first page differs from the direction of the upper edge of the form image based on the form image data; and rotate a document image on each page of the second page and the subsequent pages such that the direction of the upper edge of the document image on the first page matches a direction of an upper edges of the document image on each page of the second page and the subsequent pages in a similar case. | 09-11-2014 |
20140268196 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING A PAPER SENSOR TO ACCOUNT FOR MEDIA HOLES - The image forming device includes an image forming section in which an image is formed on the prepunched paper; a paper feed path through which paper is fed to and from the image forming section during a process in which an image is formed on the paper; one or more sensors arranged along the paper feed path to monitor a flow of the prepunched paper as it is fed through the paper feed path; and a processor for receiving signals from the sensors and map data of the prepunched paper, and for analyzing the signals and the map data to determine if there is a paper jam along the paper feed path, wherein the map data indicates locations of all holes, cut-outs, and notches formed in the prepunched paper. A method of using the image forming device is also disclosed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268197 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided are an image forming apparatus and method in which, even when storage capacity becomes insufficient for a printing instruction of a plurality of copies, the printing instruction of the copies is able to be executed to the last. Included is an output control portion for, when a printing instruction of a plurality of copies is given and a storage capacity becomes insufficient while printing execution data of a predetermined page is being created, detecting available paper discharge trays and changing to output to the paper discharge trays. When the printing instruction of the copies is given and the storage capacity becomes insufficient, printing execution data which has been created is printed to output to the available paper discharge trays and printing execution data which has been printed is deleted to prepare for creating of printing execution data concerning pages which have not been created. | 09-18-2014 |
20140293302 | PRINTER - A printer includes a recording unit that executes on a recording medium, a recording operation under a sublimation transfer scheme; a conveying unit that using a protrusion roller having protrusions protruding toward an outer periphery and abutting a first surface of the recording medium, conveys the recording medium to a recording position for the recording operation; a pseudo recorded image data producing unit that produces pseudo recorded image data that includes pseudo pixels obtained by correcting a density of each predetermined pixel that is determined corresponding to an arrangement pattern of the protrusions on the protrusion roller and is determined from among pixels to be recorded in a second area that excludes a first area that is in contact with the protrusions, on the first surface of the conveyed recording medium; and a recording control unit that controls the recording unit based on the pseudo recorded image data. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293303 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND INTERMEDIATE APPARATUS - An image forming system of one aspect of the present invention includes a first image forming apparatus arranged on the upstream side in a sheet conveyance direction, a second image forming apparatus arranged on the downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction, and an intermediate apparatus arranged between the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus. The image forming system includes a sheet conveyance path through which a sheet is conveyed from the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus through the intermediate apparatus. The sheet conveyance path is formed so that the rear end of a sheet having stopped on the sheet conveyance path is located on the sheet conveyance path within the intermediate apparatus. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293304 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided an image editing apparatus, image editing method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium that can faithfully visualize a degree of a position deviation amount of each page area generated at the time of a post-processing. An image editing apparatus, image editing method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium estimates a two-dimensional position deviation amount for each page area which is generated at the time of post-processing with respect to the printed matter based on the post-processing information relating to post-processing included in imposition data. Then, a preview image data indicating the virtual product is created by mapping a page image indicating the page area on the printed matter shifted as much as the deviation amount onto the page area on the virtual product. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293305 | DUPLEX SECTION - A duplex section ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140307278 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - An electronic device includes a controller and a unit section. The controller is configured to control operation of the electronic device. The unit section is drawable from a main body of the electronic device on which multiple loads and the controller are mounted. The unit section includes a first load, a second load, and a third load. Each of the first load and the second load is connected to a serial communication unit that enables serial communication with the control unit. The third load is connected to a communication line used for communication with the controller, without being connected to the serial communication unit. | 10-16-2014 |
20140313530 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a presenting unit and a control unit. The presenting unit presents a plurality of options for interrupt printing along with an amount of incompletely printed sheet to be discharged while images are being printed on both surfaces of a continuous sheet in accordance with a prior job. The control unit interrupts, when one of the plurality of options presented by the presenting unit is designated, the prior job in timing according to the designated option to execute an interrupt job. | 10-23-2014 |
20140320873 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit, an image forming unit, a first conveyance path configured to guide the sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit, a second conveyance path configured to guide the sheet on one surface of which an image has been formed by the image forming unit to the first conveyance path again, a document feeding unit configured to feed a document to the second conveyance path, an image reading unit configured to read the document, a third conveyance path branching off from the second conveyance path and configured to guide the document, a switch back conveyance unit configured to convey the document in the third conveyance path, a fourth conveyance path configured to guide the document conveyed by the switch back conveyance unit, and a document discharge unit configured to discharge the document guided by the fourth conveyance path. | 10-30-2014 |
20140327921 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a reading unit, first and second original sheet conveyance paths, a common conveyance path in which a recording material or the original sheet is conveyed to form an image, a third original sheet conveyance path that connects the first original sheet conveyance path and the second original sheet conveyance path and is used for conveying the original sheet conveyed in the second original sheet conveyance path to the common conveyance path, and a control unit that controls so as to convey the original sheet conveyed in the second original sheet conveyance path to the common conveyance path via the third original sheet conveyance path, and form an image on the original sheet. | 11-06-2014 |
20140333944 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided with a sample printing execution portion which, during execution of a print job, generates two printed matters for at least a part of pages of the print job on a same printing condition, discharges one of the printed matters to a first paper discharge tray as a printed matter of the print job, and discharges the other printed matter to a second paper discharge tray different from the first paper discharge tray as a sample printed matter. The sample printing execution portion, when performing sample printing of the sample printed matter, prints the printing condition of the print job corresponding to the sample printing, and discharges a sheet having the printing condition printed thereon to the second paper discharge tray. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333945 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A control method for controlling a printing apparatus and allowing a user to easily examine a variation of a printed image occurring before and after print interruption is provided. The control method includes printing an image on a sheet, discharging the sheet having the image printed thereon by the printing unit onto a first stacking unit, interrupting, upon receiving an instruction from a user, a print operation performed by the printing unit, and performing, upon receiving an instruction from the user, control so that a sheet having a predetermined image printed thereon by the printing unit is discharged onto a second stacking unit before the print operation performed by the printing unit is interrupted, and a sheet having the predetermined image printed thereon by the printing unit is discharged onto the second stacking unit after the print operation performed by the printing unit is started. | 11-13-2014 |
20140333946 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A flatbed type printer includes a table on or over which a print medium including a flat print surface is placed, a print head, a projecting unit configured to project a Gray code pattern on the table, an image taking unit configured to take an image of the projected Gray code pattern, a generating unit configured to generate a first spatial code image using an image taken with no print medium placed and to generate a second spatial code image using an image taken with the print medium placed, a generating unit configured to generate an image of the print surface using the first and second spatial code images, a normalizing unit configured to normalize the print surface in the image of the print surface, and a converting unit configured to convert print data edited on the normalized print surface into data printable on the pre-normalization print surface. | 11-13-2014 |
20140347683 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An image reading device includes a document transport controller and an operation portion. The document transport controller controls to discharge a document in one of two sheet discharging modes including a first sheet discharging mode in which the document is turned over again after both sides of the document have been read, and a second sheet discharging mode in which the document is discharged without being turned over again. The operation portion accepts an instruction to select one of the first sheet discharging mode and the second sheet discharging mode to discharge the document. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347684 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a transport guide member, and a detection mechanism. The transport guide member guides a recording medium. The detection mechanism detects presence or absence of the recording medium. An actuator portion of the detection mechanism includes a shaft portion and a detection portion configured to swing about the shaft portion when abutting the recording medium. A first guide rib of the transport guide member is provided with a notch portion through which the shaft portion penetrates. The shaft portion is provided with a second guide rib configured to close an opening of the notch portion viewed from an axis direction of the shaft portion. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355018 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a rotating fixing unit, a switching unit, and a control unit. The rotating fixing unit has a surface, the surface fixing a toner image on a recording medium by contacting the recording medium. The switching unit switches between transportation directions in which the recording sheet is transported such that an orientation of a predetermined side of the recording medium with respect to the fixing unit matches either an orientation corresponding to a first direction in which the central axis of the fixing unit extends or an orientation corresponding to a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The control unit controls the switching unit such that the recording medium is transported in a direction corresponding to a smaller one of integration values obtained along the first direction and the second direction. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362393 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus includes a post-processing unit that holds printed sheets on which an image is formed and output for post-processing, a carrier unit that holds sheets to be carried to the post-processing unit, a sheet carriage controller that carries the sheets held on the carrier unit to the post-processing unit if the image forming and outputting process that includes the post-processing is interrupted and then resumed, a counter that counts the number of sheets carried from the carrier unit to the post-processing unit, and an image forming and outputting controller that instructs an image forming and outputting unit that forms and outputs an image other than images specified based on the counted number of sheets among images to be output in the interrupted image forming and outputting process and carries the printed sheets on which an image is formed and output to the post-processing unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362394 | Apparatus and Methods for Dispensing At Least One Segment of a Printed Media Sheet with a Plurality of Segments - There is provided an apparatus and a method for dispensing printed labels from a printer. The printed labels may be prepared on a need basis, such that each printed label is either held in the apparatus or ejected from the apparatus. Some advantages of the apparatus and method include prolonging a lifespan for a print head, and minimisation of transition error on a media used for printing. | 12-11-2014 |
20140368847 | PRINTING APPARATUS, SHEET-PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHODS THEREOF, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - The present invention is characterized by requesting a user to login if the user has not been authenticated when executing sheet processing on a sheet with a post-processing apparatus without performing printing by a printing apparatus, authenticating the user in accordance with acquired user information, and, when authentication is successful, causing the post-processing apparatus to execute the sheet processing on the sheet, and recording an execution history of the sheet processing by the sheet processing apparatus as an execution history of the authenticated user. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368848 | RELAY TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A relay transport apparatus ( | 12-18-2014 |
20140376013 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming system, including: a conveying unit configured to convey recording paper; an image forming unit configured to print an image on the recording paper; an image reading unit configured to optically read the recording paper and to obtain a read image; and a correction control unit configured to control an execution of a test operation in which a test pattern including one or more thin lines are printed on the recording paper by the image forming unit and in which the test pattern is read by the image reading unit, to collect information indicting operation state of each unit in the execution of the test operation, to evaluate the thin lines in the read image obtained in the test operation in consideration of the collected information and to carry out a correction relating to printing of a specified thin line. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376014 | SHEET LOADING DEVICE, IMAGE READING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet loading device including a document feeder, an image reading unit, an image forming, a discharge member, and a combined tray. The combined tray functions as a document feeding tray which loads the document to feed to the image reading unit when the combined tray is opened, and the combined tray functions as the discharge tray which loads the recording medium when the combined tray is closed. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376015 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus, when a sheet is fed from a sheet feeding unit in a state where size information indicating the size of sheets stacked in the sheet feeding unit is not stored in a storage unit, detects and stores the size of the sheet during conveyance. The printing apparatus controls the execution of the print processing, without using size information in a case where a print instruction is received in a state where the size information is not stored, and using the size information in a case where the print instruction is received in a state where the size information is stored. Furthermore, the printing apparatus clears the size information stored in the storage unit when a particular key is operated in a state where the size information is stored while print processing is not being executed. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376016 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORING MEDIUM - In case of supplying sheets to a sheet holding unit, information concerning a depository of the sheet to be supplied is registered. Thus, it is possible to efficiently make a transition of work to supply work by reducing a load of the supply work to be performed by various users. | 12-25-2014 |
20150009515 | Image Processing Apparatus Creating Image Data with Same Direction - An image processing apparatus includes a document feeding unit, a document reading unit, a first set-document direction accepting key, an automatic determination mode setting accepting key, a set-document direction determining unit, and an image processor. The set-document direction determining unit is configured to determine, on a per-page basis, a set-document direction of documents set on the document feeding unit, based on original image data read by the document reading unit. The image processor is configured to perform a rotation process on original image data read by the document reading unit, based on the determination result by the set-document direction determining unit, and to perform a rotation process based on the first set-document direction accepted by the first set-document direction accepting key for a page for which the determination by the set document direction determining unit fails. | 01-08-2015 |
20150022834 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING SELECTABLE ROLL POSITIONING FOR WEB PRINTING IN A POST PROCESSING DEVICE OF AN IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A system and method are provided for implementing selectable roll positioning for web printing in devices, including post processing devices, for advanced image forming systems. A selectable drive system for continuous feed or web material image receiving medium substrate can “with the flip of a switch” transition the drive system from a tensioned web (transport) pulling system in a downstream device to a slack web nip-drive system as may be dictated by other system and/or operating characteristics. The selection of a particular drive method is based on a constitution of the continuous feed or web material image receiving media; a composition of a marking material deposited on the continuous feed or web material image receiving media; or a post-processing technique that the continuous feed or image receiving media, as marked, may undergo in the production of an output document. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022835 | Image Forming Apparatus, Method and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Media Storing Computer-Executable Instructions - An image forming apparatus may include a scanner configured to read a document, a feeder configured to feed a sheet, a printer configured to print an image on the sheet, a processor, and memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the image forming apparatus to control the scanner to read the document to generate read data, determine whether the read data provides an image while the scanner is reading the document, and control the feeder to start feeding the sheet to the printer in response to determining that the read data provides the image. Determining whether the read data provides the image may include determining whether a substantially blank sheet would be printed based on the read data. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022836 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes a conveyance member in which a reflection characteristics irregular part having light reflection characteristics different from those of a surrounding surface part is formed, a measurement unit configured to perform an detection operation including irradiating the conveyance member with irradiation light and detecting reflection light, a controller configured to perform a current detection operation, and perform a next detection operation after a surface of the conveyance member is moved by a distance longer than a reflection characteristics irregular part length that is a length of the reflection characteristics irregular part in a movement direction of the conveyance member surface, and a correction unit configured to perform correction for image formation on the basis of detection results of the current detection operation and the next detection operation by the measurement unit. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029525 | SHEET SUPPLY APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet supply apparatus includes: a tray on which a stack of sheets can be placed, an air blowing section that blows air towards the stack of sheets to float at least a topmost sheet, a sucking and conveying section, above the tray, that sucks said floating sheet(s) and conveys said sheet(s) in a prescribed direction, and a first light source that emits a first stripshaped slit light having a vertically extending component such that the slit light crosses at least a first edge of a first floating sheet and a second edge of a second floating sheet. An image capture section captures an image of the first slit light, a calculating section calculates a vertical clearance between the first and second sheets, and an air amount adjusting section adjusts an amount of air to be blown by the air blowing section based on the calculated vertical clearance. | 01-29-2015 |
20150036155 | CHARGER PROVIDING NON-UNIFORM ELECTROSTATIC HOLDING FORCE - A printer includes a transport belt having an electrically non-conducting surface adapted to transport a receiver medium sheet along a transport path from an upstream position to a downstream position. A charging subsystem is configured to add charge to the transport belt or the receiver medium sheet, thereby providing an electrostatic holding force. An inking subsystem is positioned downstream of the charging subsystem and deposits a pattern of ink on the receiver medium sheet. The charging subsystem provides a non-uniform charge on the receiver medium sheet such that the electrostatic holding force is higher in a sub-region of the receiver medium sheet than it is for other portions of the receiver medium sheet, thereby enabling the receiver medium sheet to expand as a result of ink being deposited by the inking subsystem. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036156 | PRINTING APPARATUS - In order for skew relative to the transport direction to be detected in a sheet which is transported to a recording unit, a carriage is initially moved in a scanning direction to a first position and the sheet is transported in this state. Then, when the front edge of the sheet in the transport direction is detected by a second sensor, the carriage is moved in a direction so that the second sensor is no longer able to locate the front edge to a second position, which is separated from the first position by a regulating movement distance. Furthermore, the sheet is transported to where the second sensor locates the front edge of the sheet in the transport direction at the second position and skew in the sheet is detected based on this transport distance and the regulating movement distance. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036157 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus having a first motor for rotating a roller for transporting recording paper includes a second motor supplied with electric power from the same power line as the first motor, a driver circuit connected to the power line and generating driving electric power based on electric power from the power line to feed the driving electric power to the second motor, and a controller controlling, on detecting a jam of the recording paper and an open state of a cabinet cover, the driver circuit such that driving electric power is supplied from the power line to the second motor. | 02-05-2015 |
20150036158 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus has first and second sheet storage units, where a second sheet conveyance path is longer than a first sheet conveyance path, and includes a determining unit and a permitting unit. When a sheet stored in the first sheet storage unit is for printing of a Nth page included in a first job and a sheet stored in the second sheet storage unit is for printing of a N+1th page included in the same first job, the determining unit determines a feeding schedule in which the N+1th page sheet feeding is initiated before the Nth page sheet feeding is initiated. When an issued instruction is issued to perform a second job by interrupting the first job after determining the feeding schedule, the permitting unit permits printing of a page included in the second job before the printing of the N+1th page included in the first job. | 02-05-2015 |
20150055157 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS HAVING FLOW-READING MODE IN WHICH SHEET BEING CONVEYED IS READ - An image reading apparatus may be in a state where a foreign material detection process cannot be completed for all reading position candidates before a sheet arrives at a conveyance roller. In such a state, the image reading apparatus performs the foreign material detection process and a position determination process only on reading position candidates which are part of all reading position candidates. The image reading apparatus determines a reading position candidate with fewest foreign material images from among the reading position candidates for which the foreign material detection process has been completed, as a sheet reading position. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062604 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND SCANNER - A scanner of the present invention includes a transport section configured to transport a transport medium and a control section configured to carry out feedback control on the transport section according to a transport state of the transport medium. The control section is further configured to reduce a gain in the feedback control in a case where the transport medium is transported in a first region where a load on the transport medium varies compared to a case where the transport medium is transported in a second region which is on an upstream side of the first region or in a third region which is on a downstream side of the first region. | 03-05-2015 |
20150092207 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to: determine whether a change of a signal from a sensor indicates a case where a recording medium is conveyed by a conveyance mechanism or a case where the recording medium is placed on a placement unit without conveying by the conveyance mechanism, based on whether the recording medium is conveyed by the conveyance mechanism; start, when the reading unit is operated to start reading the image within a first predetermined time after the signal from the sensor is changed, monitoring to determine whether the recording medium is placed on the placement unit without conveying by the conveyance mechanism; and store, when it is determined during the monitoring that the recording medium is placed on the placement unit without conveying by the conveyance mechanism, data indicating an irregularity reading in the storage unit. | 04-02-2015 |
20150103362 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus, includes: an acceptance unit that accepts image data and reading data; an extraction unit that extracts rectangular images by segmenting one image of the image data and the reading data; a first searching unit that selects at least one of the rectangular images extracted by the extraction unit, set a search range calculated from the error, searches for a matching position of the selected rectangular image in the other image of the image data and the reading data; an estimation unit that estimates a matching position of a rectangular image in the other image on the basis of the matching position of the selected rectangular image in the other image; and a second searching unit that searches for a matching position of the other rectangular image in the other image using the matching position estimated by the estimation unit as a reference. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103363 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus, includes: an acceptance unit that accepts image data and reading data read from a medium; an extraction unit that extracts a rectangular image by segmenting one image of the image data and the reading data to have a size calculated based on an error; a searching unit that searches for a matching position of a rectangular image in the other image of the image data and the reading data, which corresponds to a position of the rectangular image extracted by the extraction unit within a range of a movement amount calculated based on the size of the rectangular image extracted by the extraction unit and a predetermined size calculated by the error; and a comparison unit that compares the rectangular image extracted by the extraction unit with the rectangular image in the other image at the position searched by the searching unit. | 04-16-2015 |
20150109628 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Depending on a sheet used in printing, in some cases, a user desires to perform printing without an effect of an abnormal pixel, and in other cases, the user desires prompt execution of the reading of a document. Therefore, a method includes determining whether second image data includes an abnormal pixel, the second image data being generated by a reading unit performing reading with no document placed at a reading position, and performing control so that the determining is performed in a case where a sheet on which an image is to be printed by a printing unit is a sheet that is to be subjected to the determining, and performing control so that the determining is not performed in a case where the sheet on which the image is to be printed by the printing unit is a sheet that is not to be subjected to the determining. | 04-23-2015 |
20150116742 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus may include a pivotable display unit, and a support unit linked to pivoting of the display unit, to support the display unit. Through this configuration, the display unit is tiltable to meet an arrangement state or use state of the image forming apparatus. Since the structure to support the display unit is linked to a tiling operation of the display unit, convenience of use is also provided. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116743 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET TYPE DETECTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM OF SHEET TYPE DETECTING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a stopping part, a mode deciding part, a changing part and a type distinguishing part. The stopping part temporarily stops print execution if a type value indicating a type of a sheet conveyed according to the print execution is not included within a given range. The mode deciding part decides whether or not a mode set in the print execution is a specific mode using a different sheet from a sheet used in normal print condition. The changing part changes, if the mode set in the print execution is the specific mode, a width value used for distinguishing the sheet type to a first width value smaller than a normal width value. The type distinguishing part measures the type value and decides whether or not the type value is included within a threshold range defined by the changed width value. | 04-30-2015 |
20150138578 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a technique that enables a user to use a post-processing apparatus without giving a mode changing instruction after execution of a print job including post-processing by the post-processing apparatus has ended in a printing apparatus. Specifically, during execution of a print job in which the execution of post-processing on a sheet is set, the printing apparatus determines whether or not the post-processing apparatus has discharged a sheet on which printing processing has been performed, without executing the post-processing. If it is determined that the post-processing apparatus has discharged the sheet on which printing processing has been performed, without executing the post-processing, the printing apparatus changes the post-processing apparatus to a manual stapling (MS) mode. | 05-21-2015 |
20150294197 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system that conveys sheets printed by a printing unit to a sheet processing unit connected to the printing unit and causes the sheet processing unit to perform post processing on the sheet. When an inline job is temporarily stopped in which sheets printed by the printing unit are conveyed to the post-processing unit, and post processing is caused to be executed on the sheets by the post-processing unit, if an offline job is executable in which sheets are fed from a predetermined sheet feed section without executing printing by the printing unit, and post processing is caused to be executed on the sheets by the post-processing unit, the offline job is permitted to be executed. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296091 | Media Stiffness Sensor Assembly for an Imaging Device - A media stiffness sensor assembly for an imaging device. The assembly comprises a translation mechanism coupled to a contact member, a drive mechanism coupled to the translation mechanism and a position sensor for providing a signal indicative of the position of the contact member. The assembly is mounted within an imaging device so that the contact member is moved into bending contact with a cantilevered portion of a media sheet in the media path. The energy used to translate the contact member from a home position into the cantilevered portion of a media sheet in the media path to deflect the cantilevered portion is used to determine a weight of the media sheet. | 10-15-2015 |
20150310315 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, an operation control section controls a sheet conveyance section to eject, onto an exit tray, sheets on which images of an even number page group have been formed on respective first sides thereof. A reception section receives input from a user indicating whether the sheets ejected onto the exit tray after the images have been formed on the first sides thereof are new sheets having unused second sides or reused sheets having used second sides. When the ejected sheets are the new sheets, the operation control section controls an image forming section to form images of an odd number page group on the second sides of the new sheets after the new sheets have been loaded onto a manual feed tray. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310316 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Provided is an image forming system having a simple buffer mechanism and capable of preventing paging disorder when image-formed sheets are fed to a processing section. The present invention is featured in that an image forming order of a plurality of sheets to be made to stand by in a buffer section of a conveying path for guiding the sheets to a processing section is made different from an image forming order of sheets that are not made to stand by. To realize this, the system includes an image forming section, an accumulating section that accumulates image-formed sheet for processing, a conveying path along which the sheet is conveyed from the image forming section to the accumulating section, a buffer section disposed in the conveying path, in which the sheet to be fed to the accumulating section is made to temporarily stay, and a control section that controls the image forming section and the accumulating section. | 10-29-2015 |
20150314612 | MULTI-PURPOSE PRINTER - It is disclosed a printer comprising a front opening through which one or more documents to be treated could be introduced therein, wherein the printer comprises a first path for transporting said one or more documents from a first position to a second position and back to the first position; wherein the printer further comprises a second path for transporting said one or more documents from said first position to an exit, wherein said second path comprises a flap for deviating said one or more documents towards said exit and a separator for directing the one or more documents to one of a first tray and a second tray. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317545 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided with: an image forming unit having a photosensitive member, a charger, and a developer carrier, the image forming unit being configured to transfer the developer image to a recording sheet to form an image on the recording sheet; a motor configured to drive the photosensitive member and the developer carrier; a controller configured to control the motor and the charger, and a re-conveyance mechanism configured to reverse the recording sheet discharged from the image forming unit and to convey the recording sheet back towards the image forming unit. The controller is configured to turn off the charger after the motor is turned off, during a time period after the recording sheet is discharged from the image forming unit until the recording sheet is re-conveyed to the image forming unit by the re-conveyance mechanism. | 11-05-2015 |
20150321870 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a sheet post-processing apparatus capable of reliably protecting an edge-binding stapling unit and a sheet material, and of performing a sheet-binding process without increasing the size of the apparatus. The sheet post-processing apparatus includes: a binding unit movable to a binding position in which the binding unit performs a binding process using a binding member on a sheet, and an access position in which a user is accessable to the binding unit; and a control unit configured to cause, when the binding unit performs a setting operation for the binding member, the binding unit to perform the setting operation after causing the binding unit to move to a position different from the access position. | 11-12-2015 |
20150329307 | Image Forming Apparatus and Method for Forming Image - An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit that forms images on media based on image data; output trays that hold the media; and a controller that, based on the image data, decides the output trays as output trays to which the media are to be ejected. | 11-19-2015 |
20150347063 | PRINTER APPARATUS - In accordance with one embodiment, a printer apparatus comprises a medium conveyance path configured to convey a booklet medium having a binding section parallel to the printing digit direction; a page recognition section configured to read page recognition information which is arranged on each page of the medium in advance; a printing section configured to carry out printing on the medium; and a page recognition section moving section configured to move the page recognition section in the printing digit direction of the medium based on the size information of the medium. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356382 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF POSITIONAL ADJUSTMENT IN IMAGE FORMATION - An image forming apparatus, in which a method of positional adjustment performed in image forming, includes an image bearer, a transfer device to transfer an image formed on the image bearer onto a recording medium having a first side and a second side, a recording medium conveying path along which the recording medium travels to the transfer device, a first detector and a second detector to detect positional information of the recording medium on or near the recording medium conveying path, in which the first detector being disposed closer to the transfer device than the second detector to the transfer device in a sheet conveying direction on the recording medium conveying path, and an adjuster to adjust a position of the image based on at least one of former positional information obtained by the first detector and current positional information obtained by the second detector. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356383 | PRINTER APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTER APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printer apparatus, which includes a sheet storage portion in which a printed product is left, displays a plurality of operation keys corresponding to each of a plurality of storage units, receives an instruction for ejecting sheets stored in a storage unit corresponding to the instruction, and changes a display form of the operation key corresponding to the storage unit in which the sheet has been stored for a predetermined time to a display form that can be distinguished from the storage unit in which the sheet has not been stored for the predetermined time. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363677 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The motor that drives a reverse unit, and a CPU configured to switch an image formation mode between a full color mode for forming an image using image forming stations and a black and white mode for forming an image using the image forming station are provided. If the image is formed on a first recording material supplied by a sheet feeding roller pair and subsequently an image is formed on a second recording material supplied by a sheet refeeding unit, the motor continuously drives the reverse unit. If the image formation mode for the first recording material is different from the image formation mode for the second recording material, the CPU switches the image formation mode to the full color mode, and forms the images on the first recording material and the second recording material. | 12-17-2015 |
20160004939 | PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - It is determined whether or not printing using print data can be performed, based on print setting information in the print data, paper information regarding paper which is set in a paper feed unit of a printing apparatus, and printability information indicating a printable combination of the print setting information and the paper information. The printing using the print data is controlled based on a determination result. | 01-07-2016 |
20160009515 | Printing Apparatus and Methods | 01-14-2016 |
20160016750 | POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A post-processing device for applying a post-process to one or more sheets outputted by a device of a preceding stage, a printer for example, is provided. The post-processing device includes: an alignment mechanism for applying an alignment process for arranging a current sheet bundle; an output mechanism for outputting the current sheet bundle; a prestacking mechanism; and a control unit. The control unit performs a control in such a manner that at least a part of operation of the alignment mechanism or of operation of the output mechanism is switched from a normal operation mode for operation at a normal operation speed to a high-speed operation mode for operation at an operation speed greater than the normal operation speed when a time to completely output the current sheet bundle is later than a time to completely perform prestacking the next sheet bundle. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026411 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Folding information and printing surface information, included in content information of a sealed letter creation job, are compared with content printing conditions stored in a storage section, and an appropriate condition (a conveyance path after printing, execution/non-execution of image rotation, and printing page order) is selected such that the position of a window of a windowed envelope is aligned with the position of specifying information printed on a print sheet P to be a content when the print sheet P is enclosed in the envelope. A convey section and a printing section are controlled based on the selected content printing condition. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027222 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - When a medium is set to a printer apparatus, a first printing condition for a longer boarding ticket of two types of boarding ticket length is read and set, the medium is started to be conveyed. Upon detection of a cue mark of the medium, the medium is advanced by a predetermined distance and the apparatus is set to a print-standby state of a second boarding ticket to wait to receive data. Upon reception of first printing data, printing is started under the first printing condition. When the cue mark is detected, if printing is completed, subsequent printing is performed under the first printing condition. If the cue mark is detected before printing is completed, a second printing condition for a shorter boarding ticket is read and set and the printing is performed under the second printing condition. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028909 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus | 01-28-2016 |
20160034230 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a printing apparatus that conveys a print medium and performs printing on the conveyed print medium, the printing apparatus including a print data generation unit configured to generate print data by performing predetermined pseudo halftone processing of image data to be printed for quantizing the image data; a pattern data generation unit configured to generate print data on a detection pattern by performing the same predetermined pseudo halftone processing of data on the detection pattern for quantizing the data on the detection pattern; a pattern printing unit configured to print a detection pattern based on the generated print data on the detection pattern; a measuring unit configured to measure the printed detection pattern; and a print control unit configured to control printing based on the print data generated for the image data, based on a measurement result of the detection pattern. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034800 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints images on sheets, a sheet processing unit that executes bookbinding processing on sheets on which images have been printed by the printing unit, a stack control unit that stacks, in a stacking unit, bookbinding products on which bookbinding processing has been executed by the sheet processing unit, a setting unit that sets whether or not to activate a stacking limit of bookbinding products to be stacked on the stacking unit by the stack limiting unit, and a control unit that performs control so as to stop stacking in the stacking unit by the stack control unit in accordance with the stacking limit in the case where the stacking limit of bookbinding products has been set to activated by the setting unit. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044194 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus according to the present invention prints onto sheets in accordance with a print job, and includes a stacking unit that receives the printed sheets and stacks the sheets, and that is able to eject the stacked sheets so that an operator can remove the sheets. It is then determined whether or not sheets are stacked on the stacking unit. Control is carried out so that the stacked sheets are ejected when execution of a print job, if a setting for ejecting the stacked sheets each time a number of sheets corresponding to a designated number of copies have been stacked on the stacking unit is made for the print job and it has been determined that sheets are stacked in the stacking unit. | 02-11-2016 |
20160052310 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A printing apparatus has a stacker that includes a first stacking unit that stacks discharged sheets and a second stacking unit that slides a predetermined amount of sheets stacked on the first stacking unit from the first stacking unit and holds them. In a case in which a print job is executed, an operation of discharging sheets to the first stacking unit is controlled according to stacking statuses of the first stacking unit and the second stacking unit. | 02-25-2016 |
20160052744 | SHEET DISCHARGE MECHANISM - A sheet discharge mechanism according to an embodiment includes a tray with a loading surface on which discharged sheets are loaded. An alignment plate extends from a downstream side of the loading surface in a sheet discharge direction. An alignment roller contacts an uppermost sheet loaded on the loading surface at a predetermined position, and rotates while contacting the uppermost sheet to align the sheets against the alignment plate. A support mechanism elastically supports the tray so that at least a portion of the tray around the predetermined position moves downward in accordance with an increase in weight of sheets loaded on the loading surface. A height adjustment mechanism maintains a minimum height of sheets when the portion of the tray around the predetermined position moves downward by a predetermined distance or more in accordance with the increase in weight of sheets loaded on the loading surface. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062710 | METHOD FOR MIXING PAPER ORIENTATIONS - A method for loading image receiving material in a printing system, the printing system including a print engine capable of printing on the image receiving material, a control unit for controlling the printing on the image receiving material, at least one input holder for loading the image receiving material, and a user interface for interacting with a user of the printing system, includes the steps of receiving by means of the user interface a setting for a facial orientation of an image receiving material in the at least one input holder, the facial orientation being one out of a face up orientation and a face down orientation, storing the setting of the facial orientation as an attribute of the at least one input holder, and detecting the image receiving material loaded in the at least one input holder. A printing system is configured to execute the method. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070996 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PAPER TRANSPORTING DEVICE, AND PRINTING MACHINE MAINTENANCE DEVICE - A printing apparatus includes: a first driving portion transporting a paper sheet; a printing portion being disposed on an upstream side of the first driving portion in a transporting direction of the transported paper sheet, including a plurality of aligned ejection ports ejecting liquid onto the transporting paper sheet to print an image on the paper sheet by the liquid; a drawing portion being disposed on an upstream side of the printing portion in the transporting direction, drawing the paper sheet of which a tip end is placed at a preset position, and feeding the paper sheet to a transporting path via the printing, portion and the first driving portion; and a guiding portion being interposed between the printing portion and the first driving portion in the transporting direction, and when feeding the paper sheet, freely reciprocating between a first position and a second position. | 03-10-2016 |
20160080589 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR READING A DOCUMENT AND PRINTING A MARK THEREON - An apparatus for verifying whether a user of an object is an authorized user of the object includes: (a) means for detecting a biometric feature of the user and generating data representing the biometric feature; and (b) a reader-printer for reading and printing on the object, which includes: (i) reader system for reading the object to obtain a digital representation of biometric information associated with the authorized user; and (ii) printer system for printing on the object; the apparatus being operable to cause the printer system to print on the object if the data matches the digital representation. Separately or incorporated into the apparatus, the reader-printer may include: (a) reader for reading the object to obtain a digital signature representing a unique feature of the object; and (b) printer for printing on the object if the digital signature matches a reference digital signature associated with the object. | 03-17-2016 |
20160092759 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A PRINT JOB ON A MEDIA - The invention relates to a method for printing a digital image on a piece of media by means of a printer system comprising a printer and a computer for storing digital objects, the method comprising the steps of printing at least one digital image on a piece of media, cutting the printed at least one digital image out of the piece of media, attaching an identifying object to the leftover of the piece of media, storing the leftover of the piece of media in a depository, and storing a digital object representing the leftover of the piece of media in a database on the computer, wherein the digital object comprises a reference to the attached identifying object. The invention also relates to a method for printing a print job on a printer system, the method comprises the steps of submitting a print job for printing at least one digital image to the printer system, selecting a digital object from a database comprising digital objects representing a collection of leftovers of pieces of media in a depository and each comprising a reference to an identifying object of the corresponding leftover, wherein the leftover represented by the selected digital object is large enough to print the at least one digital image upon said leftover, retrieving the reference from the selected digital object, locating in the depository the leftover represented by the digital object by means of the retrieved reference, and printing the at least one digital image on the leftover. | 03-31-2016 |
20160094752 | Image Forming Apparatus That Reduces Waste Paper Sheet - An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance path, a print stop unit, a solution operation detector, a jam solution confirming unit, and a continuous printing resuming unit. The print stop unit stops an image forming operation when a preliminary specified print stop condition is met at a start of the continuous printing or during execution of the continuous printing. The jam solution confirming unit determines whether one sheet is normally conveyed or not by a confirmation conveyance operation. The confirmation conveyance operation conveys the sheet in the conveyance path after stopping the image forming operation by the print stop unit. The continuous printing resuming unit resumes the continuous printing by a usual conveying operation. The continuous printing simultaneously conveys a plurality of sheets in the conveyance path when the jam solution confirming unit determines that the sheets are normally conveyed. | 03-31-2016 |
20160112596 | Transporting Apparatus And Printing Apparatus Including The Same - Transporting apparatus includes a transporting section configured to transport continuous-form paper, an imaging apparatus including a light applying section for emitting light toward the continuous-form paper, and an imaging element for taking images of continuous-form paper based on the light from the light applying section, a transportation amount computing section configured to compute the transportation amount of the continuous-form paper based on the images of the continuous-form paper, and a transporting control section configured to control the transporting section based on the transportation amount. The imaging element includes a valid pixel area including a plurality of pixels where electric charge can be accumulated in accordance with the light reflected on the continuous-form paper, and a shading area including a plurality of pixels where the reflected light can be shaded. The light applying section emits light within a duration of reading a pixel signal of the shading area. | 04-21-2016 |
20160119494 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND METHOD TO CORRECT AN IMAGE READ BY THE IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, including a reading device and a controller to control the reading device to execute a reading operation, is provided. The controller in the reading operation executes a leading edge detecting process, wherein a leading edge of an original sheet is detected from image data acquired through the reading device; a trailing edge detecting process, wherein a trailing edge of the original sheet is detected from the image data acquired through the reading device; a determining process, wherein one of the leading edge and the trailing edge to be used to correct the image data acquired through the reading device is determined based on conditions of the detected leading edge and the trailing edge; and a correcting process, wherein the image data is corrected by use of the determined one of the leading edge and the trailing edge determined in the determining process. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127589 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing portion determines that a black stripe is present when among a plurality of main scanning lines included in a back end side range from a last back end position of the reading image data in a sub-scanning direction to a predetermined position, a main scanning line in which a density value of a pixels in a predetermined position is higher than a first threshold density is present, sets, at a reference line, a main scanning line farthest from the last back end position among the main scanning lines in which the density value of the pixel in the predetermined position is higher than the first threshold density and replaces density values of all pixels included in a range from a position of the reference line in the sub-scanning direction to the last back end position with a density value corresponding to white. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127606 | IMAGE READING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE READING METHOD - An reading device includes: a reading region setting section setting a reading region set under an inclination correction by an inclination correction section to be larger than a reading region set without the inclination correction, an image reading section reading a document in the reading region to generate image data, and a determination section defining a target region from a whole region of the image data and analyzing a portion of the image data corresponding to the document in the target region thereby determining an attribute of the image data, defining, without the inclination correction, a region obtained by inwardly narrowing the whole region of the image data by a predefined first region as the target region, and defining, under the inclination correction, a region obtained by inwardly narrowing the whole region of the image data by a second region larger than the first region as the target region. | 05-05-2016 |
20160134765 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING PAPER FEEDING SPEED IN DIGITAL PRINTING SYSTEM - Disclosed are a method and device for adjusting a paper feeding speed in a digital printing system. The method comprises the following steps: determining that the received dot matrix data reaches a threshold which allows dot matrix data to be sent, and then sending the received dot matrix data to an imaging component; after sending the dot matrix data, adjusting the paper feeding speed of the imaging component according to the size of the remaining dot matrix data when it is determined that the size of the remaining dot matrix data is not within a preset range, thus improving the imaging speed and stability of the digital printing system. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134777 | DOCUMENT READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A document reading device ( | 05-12-2016 |
20160142571 | CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR A CONVEYOR MECHANISM AND A METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A CONVEYOR MECHANISM - The present invention provides a calibration system, comprising a movable conveyor body configured to hold a plurality of sheets, and a drive mechanism which supports and/or drives the movement of the conveyor body to convey the sheets along a transport path. The calibration system is adapted or configured to detect a position and/or a speed of the conveyor body as it conveys the sheets, the calibration system comprising one or more markers which are provided on or in the conveyor body and a sensor arrangement for detecting each marker at two or more discrete positions spaced apart from one another. The markers are distributed along and fixed with respect to the conveyor body, wherein each marker is uniquely identifiable or distinguishable by the sensor arrangement. The present invention also provides an associated method of calibrating a sheet conveyor mechanism. | 05-19-2016 |
20160142586 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that includes an image forming part to form an image on a recording medium, a sheet container to contain the recording medium, a sheet feeder to feed the recording medium from the sheet container toward the image forming part, and a controller to switch speeds of conveyance of the recording medium conveyed by the image forming part and the sheet feeder between high speed sheet conveyance and low speed sheet conveyance. The image forming apparatus continuously forms the image on multiple recording media in a continuous printing mode. The controller adjusts a printing distance in the continuous printing mode between a trailing end of a preceding recording medium of the recording media and a leading end of a subsequent recording medium in the low speed sheet conveyance to be greater than the printing distance in the high speed sheet conveyance. | 05-19-2016 |
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20160185555 | MECHANISM FOR DISCHARGING SHEETS IN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SHEETS AND APPARATUS FOR READING IMAGES PROVIDED WITH THE MECHANISM - In a sheet discharge mechanism for enabling a wide range of sheets stored on a sheet discharge tray from a processing section, a brake lever for reducing a velocity of a sheet fed from a sheet discharge outlet is held detachably relative to an attachment frame above the sheet discharge tray, and it is possible to select whether brake action is made corresponding to sheet discharge conditions. A sheet discharge mechanism includes a sheet discharge path having a sheet discharge outlet, a sheet discharge tray disposed on the downstream side of the sheet discharge outlet with a level difference, and a brake section of a sheet carried out at the sheet discharge outlet, wherein the brake section includes a lever member in which its base end portion is axially supported by an attachment frame, and its front end portion moves up and down corresponding to a load amount of sheets. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191719 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An operation panel is integrated into a conveying unit, and the operation panel and a conveying roller are displaced with respect to each other in a sheet width direction crossing a sheet conveying direction. The operation panel and the conveying roller are located in a manner at least partly overlapping each other in the sheet conveying direction and a height direction in the conveying unit. Further, the operation panel and the conveying roller are at least partly located within a range of a width of a sheet conveying area by the conveying unit. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191720 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A control apparatus controls a sheet feeding apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a sheet delivering apparatus so as to perform image formation based on image data while conveying a long sheet at a constant speed, and at the time of executing image formation of another image based on another image data other than the image data in the middle of image formation based on the image data, the control apparatus controls to stop conveying of the long sheet temporarily, and controls to cut out a region where the another image is formed in the state of stopping conveying of the long sheet temporarily. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191733 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONVEYING STOP METHOD OF RECORDING MATERIAL, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH CONVEYING STOP PROGRAM OF RECORDING MATERIAL - An image forming system determines whether there is any recording material that is being conveyed in an image forming apparatus and that cannot be stopped at a predetermined position defined so as to avoid a location that causes a deformation of the recording material, when the conveying abnormality of the recording material is detected. Also, the image forming system determines whether there is any post processing apparatus in which the recording material can be stopped at an upstream side with respect to the post processing apparatus where the conveying abnormality occurs. Further, the image forming system discharges the recording material that cannot be stopped at the predetermined position in the image forming apparatus to a post processing apparatus at a downstream side with respect to the image forming apparatus and stops the recording material in the post processing apparatus. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191738 | IMAGE READING DEVICE SELECTING READING POSITION ON THE BASIS OF DEFECTIVE FACTORS - In an image reading device, a reading unit reads information at a reading position. The reading position is selected from lines arranged in a prescribed range in a sub-scanning direction. A processor detects whether there is a defective pixel in one line worth of pixels and stores a position of the detected defective pixel as a defective position in a storing unit. The processor calculates defective factors for normal positions. Each of the normal positions indicates one of the plurality of lines having no defective pixel. The closer a distance between the normal position and a defective position positioned within a specific range from the normal position is, the larger a defective factor of the normal position is set. The processor sets a position having a smallest defective factor from among the normal positions. The reading unit reads the original conveyed by the sheet conveying unit at the set position. | 06-30-2016 |
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20180027134 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | 01-25-2018 |