| CANON FINETECH INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120126477 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention prevents a succeeding sheet from being caught in holes of preceding punched sheets. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120106990 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which has an improved follow-up property indicating how a toner supply amount follows a toner consumption amount to prevent a defective image, including: a photosensitive drum; a developing device; a toner replenishing device; a toner sensor configured to detect a toner amount inside the developing device; and a controller configured to drive the toner replenishing device to replenish the developing device with toner based on a detection result of the sensor during a developing device driving time and to stop the toner replenishing device during a non-image forming period to stop replenishing the developing device with toner, wherein if the toner amount inside the developing device detected by the sensor is reduced to a level equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value, the controller drives the developing device and the toner replenishing device even during the non-image forming period. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20110293346 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND PRINTING APPARATUS USING SAME - The conveying device has contact portions that extend in a conveyance direction of the conveying belt and which contact with the same surface of the print medium that is attracted by suction to the conveying belt. This realizes a conveying device that assures a high quality printing. Even when a print medium with warped or undulated portions is fed, the conveying device can hold the print medium flat on the conveying belt and the ribs by suction through the suction holes in the conveying belt and through the platen, keeping the distance between the print head and the print medium constant, assuring a stable printing operation. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110211935 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110176838 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a developing device capable of, with a simple structure, preventing occurrence of image degradation ascribable to a distribution of an amount of fall in a longitudinal direction due to developer replenishment within a developer container. An upper rim portion of a developer regulating wall for adjusting an amount of a developer falling along a developer transport direction of a developer transport path is inclined so as to become low in height in the developer transport direction of the developer transport path. A width of a surface in the developer transport direction of the developer transport path is enlarged along the developer transport direction of the developer transport path. A wall is formed by the developer transported on the developer transport path, and the developer transported in a longitudinal direction is transported in the longitudinal direction while breaking a wall of the developer itself. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110161717 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Even in a case where a master-CPU of an image forming section and a slave-CPU of a sheet transportation section are driven by respective oscillation circuits with different oscillation accuracies, a large difference in accuracy is not caused in transfer sheet transportation speed driven by clock signals formed by the respective oscillation circuits. In the master-CPU and the slave-CPU that are cascadingly connected to each other, in order to calculate a clock frequency of an oscillation circuit of the target-CPU, a predetermined time transmitted from the other CPU connected to the target-CPU is counted by the clock signal of the target-CPU. With reference to the predetermined time, an operating process, such as division of an acquired counter value by the predetermined time, acquires an error of the clock frequency of the oscillation circuit driving the slave-CPU, and corrects the error, thereby improving the accuracy thereof. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158723 | TONER COLLECTING APPARATUS, CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner collecting apparatus which transports collected toner through a discharge pipe to discharge the collected toner from a discharge port of the discharge pipe, the toner collecting apparatus including: a cover pipe having an open window and being rotatable around the discharge pipe in a substantially concentric fashion; a protective wall covering at least apart of the cover pipe; and a rotation member which rotates the cover pipe, wherein the cover pipe is rotated by the rotation member between an open position in which the open window is aligned with the discharge port and a closed position in which the open window is shifted from the discharge port so that at least the open window is covered with the protective wall. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158669 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention prevents a toner bottle from being erroneously determined to be empty and allows toner to be reliably refilled into a hopper and thus a developing unit in an image forming apparatus including the developing unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier, using toner. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158664 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of performing stable charging and thus stable image formation over a long term by changing a charge control method based on various environments. An engine control section serves as a first applied voltage determining unit, obtains a relationship between an applied voltage and a discharge current amount to a charging roller, and determines a voltage value of an applied voltage corresponding to a predetermined discharge current amount. The engine control section serves as a second applied voltage determining unit and determines a voltage value of a voltage to be applied to the charging roller based on the environment information detected by the environmental sensor. The engine control section selects, as the voltage to be applied to the charging roller, any one of the voltage values determined by the first and the second applied voltage determining units based oh the environment information. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110157614 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - This invention provides an image processing method and image processing apparatus, which allow the user to select an image for which an amount of printing material applied to a printing medium is to be reduced. To an object selected on a selection window, a CPU applies image processing for reducing a printing material to data of an internal part of the selected object except for its contour using a program of a printer driver. Then, this invention can provide an image processing method and image processing apparatus, which are convenient for the user. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110115866 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, including: a recording unit configured to form an image on a recording medium conveying in a conveying direction; a main body portion configured to support the recording unit in an openable and closable manner; a conveying unit configured to convey, in the conveying direction, the recording medium on which an image is to be formed by the recording unit, the conveying unit being disposed below the recording unit; a holder configured to contain the recording medium on which an image is to be formed by the recording unit, the holder being disposed upstream of the conveying unit in the conveying direction; and a raising and lowering mechanism configured to raise and lower the holder between a first position for feeding the recording medium to the recording unit and a second position placed above the first position. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110081185 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a sheet processing apparatus which can perform a punching process while suppressing decrease in productivity, and an image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus. In a third carry-in route R | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110079955 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In order to stack a larger number of sheets on trays by reducing a total thickness of the trays and enabling the trays to ascend and descend actually over long distances, a sheet stacking device includes an upper-tray and a lower-tray which are ascendible and descendible and on which sheets delivered from a delivery roller pair are stacked, a motor and a belt for allowing both the trays to ascend and descend, a clutch for disconnecting the upper-tray and the belt from each other, and a claw and a rack for stopping self-weight descent of the upper-tray when the clutch effects the disconnection. A clearance between the upper-tray under the disconnection by the clutch and in the stop of the self-weight descent by the claw engaged with the rack and the lower-tray connected to the belt is adjustable by ascent and descent of the lower-tray by the motor. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110062648 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus that processes sheets transported in a transport direction and stacked on a tray, including: a sheet moving device configured to be brought into contact with an upper surface of a sheet stacked on the tray and to be moved in a width direction intersecting with the transport direction to move the sheet in the width direction; an alignment member against which a side edge of the sheet moved in the width direction by the sheet moving device is brought into abutment, to align the sheet; and a guide member configured to hold down the sheet between the sheet moving device and the alignment member with the sheet moving device in contact with the upper surface of the sheet, wherein the guide member is moved integrally with the sheet moving device in the width direction. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110062646 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus in which even if the apparatus includes a gripping apparatus gripping one side of a sheet bundle to be stapled, the sheet bundle can be stapled in a portion thereof in which the gripping apparatus is located. A gripper unit is moved in a direction crossing one side of sheets and placed in a discharge position in which the gripper unit discharges the gripped sheets and in a coupling position where the gripper unit is coupled to a staple unit. The gripper unit is thus moved in the same direction as that in which the staple unit coupled to the gripper unit at the coupling position moves. Thus, the staple unit can be moved to a stapling position without the need to ensure a retract space. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110043591 | Printer with ink ribbon - A printer using a thermal head to sublime ink on an ink ribbon includes a cylindrical ribbon core around which the ink ribbon is wound, a rotating shaft to rotate the ribbon core, first and second magnets to generate magnetic force lines in a space surrounded by an inner peripheral face of the ribbon core, and a magnet sensor located in the space to detect the magnetic force lines generated by the first and second magnets only when the magnetic force lines are set in prescribed directions by rotation of the ribbon core. The ribbon core includes a cylindrical outer core with an outside peripheral surface around which the ink ribbon is wound and a cylindrical inner core with an outside peripheral surface to which the first and second magnets are fixed. The inner core with the first and second magnets fixed thereto is installed inside the outer core. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110037216 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus including: a gathering tray device that collates sheets sequentially fed thereto into a sheet bundle; a sheet bundle conveying device that conveys the sheet bundle collated by the gathering tray device to an adhesive coating position located downstream of the gathering tray device; an adhesive coating device that coats the sheet bundle located at the adhesive coating position with an adhesive; a cover sheet stitching device that stitches a cover sheet with the sheet bundle; and a control device that controls a bookbinding process executed by the sheet bundle conveying device, the adhesive coating device, and the cover sheet stitching device, wherein, upon receiving a bookbinding process stopping signal before the sheet bundle is coated with the adhesive by the adhesive coating device, the control device controls the adhesive coating device to coat the sheet bundle in process with the adhesive. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110020094 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM, AND BOOKBINDING METHOD - A bookbinding apparatus provided with an accumulating portion, which accumulates sheets into a sheet bundle, a bundle position correcting device, which corrects an adhesive application position of the sheet bundle, an adhesive applying portion, which applies an adhesive to the sheet bundle, and a bookbinding device, which cases the sheet bundle having the adhesive applied thereto in a cover for casing-in a book. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20100320671 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a sheet processing apparatus including a gripper unit which is moved to a retreat region along long grooves in advance when moving a stapler unit to any one of first and second binding positions. The stapler unit is moved to the binding position by being guided by a guide rail portion while passing above the long grooves. Therefore, moving operations of both of the gripper unit and the stapler unit can be smoothly performed under a state in which movement of both thereof is not prohibited by the long grooves and the guide rail portion. Further, an image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus is provided. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100258995 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus nicely performs an aligning operation for a sheet conveyed onto a process tray with a simple configuration. A switching member performs an operation of switching an aligning member from a non-contact state to a contact state before the sheet reaches a contact position on the tray or performs an operation of, while the sheet on the tray is being conveyed toward a sheet edge regulating member by the aligning member, switching the aligning member from the contact state to the non-contact state, and further switching the aligning member from the non-contact state to the contact state. Thus, the sheet processing apparatus reduces an occurrence of a conveyance failure caused by collision of a leading edge of thick paper with a return roller and a return guide member, and maintains good conveyance performance by preventing sheet stick caused by a coating material coated on coat paper. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100254782 | Sheet Cutting Apparatus and sheet Post-Processing Apparatus Having the Same, and Image Forming System - A sheet cutting apparatus, including: a conveying member configured to convey a half-folded sheet bunch in a conveyance path in which the conveying member is provided; a registration member which comes into contact with a leading edge portion of the sheet bunch to correct a skew feed of the sheet bunch; a cutting member positioned upstream of the registration member to cut a trailing edge portion of the sheet bunch; and a discharging member provided at an outlet of the conveyance path to discharge the sheet bunch, wherein the leading edge portion of the sheet bunch is positioned outside the discharging member when, after the skew feed is corrected, the sheet bunch is conveyed downstream in the conveying direction by the conveying member and the trailing edge portion of the sheet bunch is conveyed to a cutting position of the cutting member to cut the trailing edge portion. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100201765 | INKJET PRINT HEAD AND INK STORAGE APPARATUS - An objective of the invention is to provide an improved ink storage apparatus and an inkjet print head including the ink storage apparatus. Furthermore, an effective elimination of the air bubbles flowed into or generated in the print head is realized by an ink storage apparatus and an inkjet print head including the ink storage apparatus. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100187743 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100156975 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - In an inkjet printing apparatus using plural line type inkjet printing heads for one color ink, and forming an image by dividing image data into pieces corresponding to the plural printing heads, a complementary printing operation using a simple configuration is achieved without causing a substantial decrease in printing speed even when one printing head has a poorly ejecting nozzle. When a one printing head has a poorly ejecting nozzle, a corresponding nozzle of another printing head complements the printing operation assigned to the poorly ejecting nozzle. At this time, the same piece of divided image data is fed to the one and the other printing heads. Then, the printing operation of the one printing head is made invalid only at the timing of driving the poorly ejecting nozzle, and the printing operation of the second printing head is made valid only at the timing of driving the corresponding nozzle. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100103217 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus having a plurality of caps connected to a common negative-pressure supply source, in which an optimum amount of ink can be sucked and discharged from a plurality of print heads corresponding to the respective caps in spite of a variation in channel resistance among the caps. A plurality of individual suction paths connect a common suction pump to each of the plurality of caps. An introduction condition for a negative pressure to be introduced into each of the caps is set according to the channel resistance of the corresponding individual suction path. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100097433 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID SUPPLY APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS, AND LIQUID SUPPLY METHOD - The present invention provides a liquid ejection head, a liquid supply apparatus, a liquid ejection apparatus, and a liquid supply method which enable the channel resistance and pressure loss of liquid in the liquid ejection head to be reduced to increase the speed at which liquid is supplied to the nozzles. To achieve this, an ink supply chamber ( | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100096800 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A sheet processing apparatus including a cross-directionally moving device for moving a sheet in a direction crossing a sheet discharging direction, and a cross-side restricting member for receiving one side edge of the sheet moved in the crossing direction by the cross-directionally moving device, and restricting the movement of the sheet, wherein the cross-directionally moving device moves the next sheet from a position between the other side edge of the sheet received by the cross-side restricting member and the cross-side restricting member to the cross-side restricting member. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100021635 | PIGMENT DISPERSION LIQUID, INKJET RECORDING INK, INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - To provide a pigment dispersion liquid which provides an ink capable of recording an image having high fixability and fastness such as scratch resistance and excellent quality stably for a long time in any conditions. A pigment dispersion liquid mainly containing a polymer dispersant, a coloring material and water, in which the polymer dispersant is formed of at least a hydrophobic unit and a hydrophilic unit, the hydrophobic unit having a block portion formed of at least one hydrophobic monomer, the coloring material is formed of a pigment having on its surface an acid form anionic group, and the pigment dispersion liquid further contains a basic compound capable of forming a complex with an alkaline metal. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20090261521 | Sheet post-processing apparatus - To provide a sheet post-processing apparatus where a cutting means for cutting a fore-edge portion of a center-folded bunch of sheets is disposed in a position spaced from a sheet discharge outlet in an apparatus frame to eliminate the risk for inflicting a wound on the body such as the finger, hand and the like of an operator, provided are an end binding means ( | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090256302 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a sheet post-processing unit having a simple structure, capable of stably conveying sheets on a tray and causing less ruggedness in conveying and aligning the sheets discharged one after another to the tray to form a bundle of sheets and to staple it. The sheet post-processing unit is provided with sheet conveying means for conveying the sheet stacked on the post-processing tray in the same and reverse directions with/from the sheet conveying direction and intersectional moving means for conveying the sheet in the direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction by moving the sheet conveying means in the direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction. It conveys the sheet while keeping rollers of the sheet conveying means in contact with the sheet and aligns the sheet by hitting the trailing edge thereof against a trailing edge stopper and by hitting the side edge of thereof against a wall by moving the rollers in the intersecting direction. In aligning the sheet by hitting the edges thereof against the stopper or the wall, the unit conveys the sheet slightly more than an actual extent of movement thereof obtained from the specific size of the sheet and slides the rollers on the sheet after hitting the sheet against the stopper or the wall. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090238620 | DOCUMENT FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A document feeder for transporting a document to a predetermined reading position at which image reading is performed by an image reading portion, including: a document transport portion for transporting the document to a reading standby position upstream of the reading position; and a control portion for controlling the document transport portion so that the document is made to stop at the reading standby position if the image reading portion is not in an image readable state by the time the document arrives at the reading standby position. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090212487 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus of the invention has: a movement blocking unit for blocking a movement of a sheet which is moved to a side edge aligning unit by a moving unit, thereby allowing the moving unit to position adjustment slip move on the sheet so as to adjust a relative position with the sheet; and a block cancelling unit for allowing the movement blocking unit to cancel the block of the movement of the sheet when the moving unit slips and moves by a predetermined distance. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090189935 | BARCODE PRINTING DEVICE AND BARCODE PRINTING METHOD - A barcode printing device, which forms one image using plural same-color heads arranged in parallel, generates a barcode in which the effect of variations in landing position accuracy, caused by variations in the conveyance, is minimized. The barcode printing device comprises plural line heads | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090162552 | PIGMENT DISPERSION LIQUID, INK JET RECORDING INK, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK CARTRIDGE AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A pigment dispersion liquid capable of stably recording images having high fastness and excellent quality for a long term in any cases has been provided. A pigment dispersion liquid mainly containing a polymer dispersant, a pigment and water, wherein the polymer dispersant is a copolymer comprised of at least a hydrophobic unit and a hydrophilic unit, the hydrophobic unit has a block portion comprised of at least one hydrophobic monomer, the hydrophilic unit has at least a repeating unit structure of an acrylamide structure of the following general formula (1), and the segment number (A) of the block portion comprised of a hydrophobic monomer to the number (B) of all segments of the polymer dispersant is in a range of 0.07 to 0.85 in terms of A/B ratio. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090160915 | INK SUPPLYING APPARATUS, INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS, INKJET PRINTING HEAD, INK SUPPLYING METHOD AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus which can perform cost-down and an improvement on a print quality by simplification of an apparatus construction is realized. For realizing such an apparatus, a gas-liquid separation is achieved by the construction where air bubbles generated in an ejection portion or a reservoir can rise to a liquid surface, and a negative pressure control and at the same time, discharge of the air bubbles are performed by a fan. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090160900 | REGISTRATION ERROR DETECTION METHOD AND INKJET IAMGE FORMING DEVICE - An inkjet image forming device records a test pattern | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090160896 | INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An ink-jet type image-forming apparatus is provided which is improved in ink ejection performance and ink ejection reliability by retarding increase of the ink viscosity. In this apparatus, the ink in nozzles is not heated immediately before the printing (no voltage pulse is applied to the heater | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090154979 | INK RIBBON UNIT AND METHOD OF JUDGMENT OF INK RIBBON JAMMING - Magnetic force lines | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090136276 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An image-forming apparatus is provided which is capable of forming an image on an intended position on a recording medium regardless of the paper sheet width (whether the sheet is wide or narrow). The image-forming apparatus | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090115125 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus comprising a sheet holding device capable of storing supplied sheets, a first sheet stacking tray on which sheets are stacked at a downstream side of the sheet holding device in a sheet conveying direction and on which the sheets are subjected to processing, a sheet discharging device for discharging the sheets stacked on the first sheet stacking tray, a second sheet stacking tray on which the sheets discharged by the sheet discharging device are stacked, and a controller for controlling the sheet discharging device and the sheet holding device if sheet jam occurs at an upstream side of the sheet holding device, in such a manner that, after the sheets on the first sheet stacking tray are discharged onto the second sheet stacking tray, the sheets stored in the sheet holding device are discharged onto the first sheet stacking tray. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090109450 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD EMPLOYED IN THE SYSTEM - An image forming system is provided that uses printing apparatus groups each consisting of a plurality of printing apparatuses. The printing apparatuses hold print heads each provided with nozzles arrayed in a predetermined direction, are arranged two-dimensionally to cooperate with each other in printing rasters extending in the predetermined direction. Two printing apparatus groups are arranged in a medium conveying direction. In forming images in areas divided in the predetermined direction, the printing apparatuses or print heads located on the upstream side and the downstream side are appropriately set to participate in the printing of the same raster. In printing for one divided area, when only one print head is used to reduce electric power consumption or when two print heads are used for faster printing or for higher print quality, a selection is made of a combination of printing apparatuses or print heads that considers the printed image quality. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090091779 | PRINT MODULE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PRINT SYSTEM, PRINT UNIT, INK SUPPLY UNIT, PRINT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a print module, an information processing device, a print system, a print unit, an ink supply unit, a print method and program, all capable of quickly and easily meeting demands for a print medium size change, particularly to increased sizes, while at the same time coping with demands for faster printing speed. To this end, this invention constructs the print heads ( | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090074493 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus of the invention has: an ejecting unit that is capable of receiving a sheet on which a toner image has been heated and fixed, and ejecting the sheet for a predetermined normal ejecting time; and a processing unit that processes the sheet ejected by the ejecting unit according to obtained sheet information, wherein the ejecting unit ejects the sheet for an ejecting time longer than the normal ejecting time. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090072035 | BARCODE GENERATION SYSTEM, BARCODE GENERATION PROGRAM, PRINTING DEVICE, AND TEST CHART - A test chart for printing black bars and white bars of a barcode, each of which has one of multiple different numbers of dots-in-width, is printed on a printing device on which barcodes are printed. In image data on the test chart, the space between neighboring black bars on the test chart is used as a white bar. The widths of black bars and white bars of a barcode are measured based on the image of the printed test chart. Based on this measurement result, the numbers of dots-in-width of black bars and white bars to be set at a printing time are calculated as barcode correction values so that the black bar widths and white bar widths of a printed barcode meet predetermined sizes. This configuration generates barcode configuration information, or barcodes, that satisfy individual user's use condition, quickly and with the minimal use of paper and ink. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090058916 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming method which prevents the temperatures of printing heads from exceeding a predetermined temperature. In this image forming method, its basic assignment is changed when any one of the temperatures detected by the respective temperature sensors exceeds the predetermined temperature (for example, 60° C.). Specifically, each time the forming of an image on a printing medium (for example, a label) is completed, the temperatures of the respective printing heads are detected with the respective temperature sensors. When any one of the temperatures thus detected exceeds 60° C., the association of raster line regions with ink ejection opening arrays (the association of rasters with the printing heads) under the basic assignment is shifted one-by-one. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090033989 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND PRINT DATA GENERATING METHOD - An image forming system generates print data according to a predetermined layout based on a database ( | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090028616 | FIXING ROLLER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND FIXATION ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE ROLLER - A coil spring | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090015617 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - An inkjet recording device having a line type recording head detects the conveyance speed of a recording medium (S | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090010663 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - The present invention provides a printing apparatus and a printing method which, even if print media of different sizes are printed, can print images in well-balanced, optimum layouts according to the size of each of the print media. Thus, the printing apparatus according to the present invention has leading end detector which detects a leading end of a print medium and trailing end detector which detects a trailing end of the print medium. The printing apparatus further has print control unit which prints images based on a first print data for which a print start position is determined on the basis of the leading end detected by the leading end detector and second print data for which a print start position is determined on the basis of the trailing end detected by the trailing end detector. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20080310935 | CUTTING APPARATUS AND CUTTING METHOD - A cutting apparatus for cutting a book bundle has: a book bundle rotating mechanism for rotating the book bundle and changing a cutting surface; a book bundle moving mechanism for moving the book bundle in the direction of a cutting mechanism; and the cutting mechanism for separately cutting the cutting surface of the book bundle a plurality of times and not continuously cutting the same surface excluding the cutting surface to be finally cut for the book bundle to be cut. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080309744 | LIQUID-EJECTING HEAD - A liquid-ejecting head is provided whereby it is possible to eject both a main droplet and a satellite in the desired ejection direction, and furthermore, wherein no bias exists in the lifetimes of the heaters of a tip A and a tip B. In order to do so, a stopper is formed inside the ejection nozzle, the stopper limiting the movement of movable valves during bubble formation. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080308992 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A bookbinding apparatus including: a gathering tray device that collates sheets sequentially fed thereto into a sheet bundle; a sheet bundle conveying device that conveys the sheet bundle collated by the gathering tray device to an adhesive coating position located downstream of the gathering tray device; an adhesive coating device that coats the sheet bundle located at the adhesive coating position with an adhesive; a cover sheet stitching device that stitches a cover sheet with the sheet bundle; and a control device that controls a bookbinding process executed by the sheet bundle conveying device, the adhesive coating device, and the cover sheet stitching device, wherein, upon receiving a bookbinding process stopping signal before the sheet bundle is coated with the adhesive by the adhesive coating device, the control device controls the adhesive coating device to coat the sheet bundle in process with the adhesive. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080308990 | SHEET CUTTING APPARATUS - A sheet cutting apparatus, including: a cutting knife for cutting a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets; a sub-waste box capable of temporally receiving cutting wastage of a sheet bundle which has been cut; and a main waste box capable of receiving the cutting wastage received in the sub-waste box, in which the main waste box is constructed so that a wastage disposal operation of the cutting wastage received in the main waste box can be made while the sub-waste box temporally receives the cutting wastage. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080304891 | BARCODE GENERATION SYSTEM, BARCODE GENERATION PROGRAM, AND PRINTING DEVICE - A barcode generation system that generates an appropriate barcode, which satisfies the usage condition of each user, quickly and with a minimum consumption of ink and paper. A test chart is printed on a printing device | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080303201 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080292376 | THERMAL FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - The contact rate between a heater | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080291226 | RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING DEVICE - For use when the recordable area of a recording medium is smaller than recording data, there is provided a recording device that can determine the priority of divided areas and preferentially record a high-priority area. The recording device assigns priority to each of the recording areas of a whole image on one page and, if it is determined that the whole image does not fit on the recording medium, performs at least one of rearranging the recording position of a high-priority area, changing the recording size of a low-priority area, and discarding a part of recording data of the low-priority area based on the priority of the recording areas to prevent any part of the image of the high-priority area from being lost. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080273064 | INK-FEEDING DEVICE AND PRESSURE-GENERATING METHOD - An ink-feeding device is provided in which the pressure applied to the ink in the printing head can be adjusted arbitrarily irrespective of the relative positions of the ink container and the printing head. Inside the sub-tank | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080273046 | Ink Supplying Device, Recording Device, Ink Supplying Method and Recording Method - Variations in the negative pressure in the print head is minimized by positively controlling the ink supply pressure. For this purpose, the pump ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080266345 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing apparatus and an ink jet printing method which can prevent print quality from being degraded by a non-ejection nozzle while maintaining high-speed printing performance based on a raster division method. The present invention sequentially performs, array by array, an operation of ejecting ink through a plurality of nozzle arrays to sequentially print an image in a plurality of raster forming areas of a print medium. At this time, if an expected printing result fails to be achieved owing to a nozzle included in any of the nozzle arrays which exhibits degraded ejecting performance, degrading image quality, then the ejection order of the plurality of nozzle arrays is changed. This enables a reduction in the degradation of print quality caused by the ejecting performance of the nozzles. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080259391 | RECORDING SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING DEVICE - Recording data generated by a recording data generation PC ( | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080225064 | PRINTING SYSTEM - In a printing system including a plurality of inkjet printing units and an ink tank commonly used thereby, wherein the ink tank is capable of notifying an amount of ink consumed thereby and has a memory for storing information relating to the ink consumption amount in a updatable manner, the memory access by the printing units is properly arbitrated. The printing system is provided with a storage section for storing the ink consumption amount notified from the respective printing units, a process section for reading the information from the memory and carrying out the calculation together with the stored ink consumption amount, a process section for updating the content in the memory based on the calculated value, and a process section for suspending the calculation relating to the amount of ink consumption in one printing unit, when the calculation is being carried out about any other printing units. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080218551 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - Time for which an ejection port surface of a print head has been exposed to the exterior since the end of the last cleaning operation is predicted and accumulated as an accumulated exposure time. A cleaning timing is set to be a timing when the accumulated exposure time coincides with a set time set according to the ambient temperature and humidity of an area in which a label printer is installed. In principle, a cleaning operation is performed at the cleaning timing. However, when the cleaning timing comes during the current consecutive printing operation, the cleaning operation is not performed during the current consecutive printing operation but at a time before the start of the current consecutive printing operation or a time after the end of the current consecutive printing operation. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080218544 | INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS AND INK-JET TYPE IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - An image-forming apparatus is provided which prevents irregularity of an image density and improves the life of heating elements. In a half of recording heads (a group of recording heads | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080203177 | BAR CODE GENERATOR - The present invention is directed to a bar code generator which improves a print quality of a bar code and further enhances reading precision thereof, as to both vertical and horizontal bar codes. In this bar code generator, bar width information is set independently for each of the vertical and horizontal bar codes, as a precondition for printing the vertical and horizontal bar codes, selectively. When the bar code is printed (S | 08-28-2008 |
