Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120250059 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image recording system is provided. The image recording system includes an image recording apparatus, a mobile terminal to wirelessly manipulate the image recording apparatus and including a display device, a receiver to receive a signal from one of the image recording apparatus and the mobile terminal, a distance determining unit to determine a distance between the image recording apparatus and the mobile terminal, a range determining unit to determine a range, which includes the detected distance amongst a plurality of continuously incremental ranges partitioned by a predetermined reference distance originating from the image recording apparatus, a storage to store information concerning a plurality of operation screens associated with the plurality of ranges respectively, and a display controller to control the display device to display one of the plurality of operation screens associated with one of the plurality of ranges, which includes the detected distance. | 10-04-2012 |
20130086638 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RECORDING IMAGES ON A RECORDING MEDIUM - When authentication information is input via an IC card reader and includes predetermined information. A portable terminal corresponding to the authentication information is identified, and specific identification information that identifies an image-data file associated with the authentication information is extracted. The extracted specific identification information is transmitted to the identified portable terminal, and the portable terminal displays a list of the received specific identification information on its touch panel. The operation of a printing mechanism is controlled, so that the image-data file corresponding to the specific identification information that selected with a touch panel on the portable terminal is accessed, and an image defined by the image-data file defines is printed on a sheet. | 04-04-2013 |
20130193628 | RECORDING MEDIUM POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTER UNIT WITH THE SAME, RECORDING MEDIUM POST-PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING RECORDING MEDIUM POST-PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS - A recording medium post-processing apparatus includes: a stacker which is stacked with a plurality of sheet-like recording media with images being recorded thereon; an receiving device which receives at least one of information regarding the images to be recorded on the recording media and information regarding the recording media; an alignment device which applies an external force to the recording media stacked on the stacker so as to align the recording media; a controller which sets, on the basis of the at least one information received by the receiving device, at least one of (i) stacked-sheet number that is the number of the recording media, and (ii) a magnitude of the external force that is applied to the recording media and which controls the alignment device on the basis of the setted at least one of the stacked-sheet number and the magnitude of the external force. | 08-01-2013 |
20130257957 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS INCLUDING CURL CORRECTING DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING METHOD INCLUDING CURL CORRECTING PROCESS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR LIQUID EJECTION AND CURL CORRECTING - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejection head that ejects liquid on recording media, an output tray that supports the recording media stacked thereon, a curl-correcting device, a detecting device, and a controller. The curl-correcting device performs curl-correction processing on the recording media, which reduces an amount of curl of the recording media. The detecting device detects information related to a stacking thickness of the recording media. The controller sets the curl-correcting device to perform the curl-correction processing on the recording media at a first processing level when the stacking thickness is greater than or equal to the threshold stacking thickness. The controller sets the curl correcting device to perform the curl-correction processing on the recording media at a second processing level when the stacking thickness is less than the threshold stacking thickness. The first processing level includes more curl-correction processing than the second processing level. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257959 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRYING RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head that ejects a liquid onto a recording medium; a drying device that dries the recording medium; a sheet discharged tray including a sheet placed face; a sheet discharging device that discharges the recording medium to a space over the sheet placed face; a stopper that causes the recording medium discharged by the sheet discharging device to collide with the stopper; an obtaining device that obtains a height of the plurality of recording media stacked on the sheet placed face; and a controller that controls the drying device so that a degree of drying of the recording medium becomes larger in a case in which the height obtained by the obtaining device is equal to or more than a set specific value, than in a case in which the height is less than the set specific value. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257961 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS INCLUDING CURL REDUCTION DEVICE, CURL REDUCTION METHOD EXECUTED IN THE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM USED FOR THE APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: (a) a storage device for storing an image data set representing a plurality of images; (b) a liquid ejection head for performing an image formation on each recording medium; (c) a curl reduction device for reducing curl caused in each recording medium having the corresponding image formed thereon by the liquid ejection head; (d) an output tray for receiving each recording medium whose curl has been reduced by the curl reduction device, such that the received recording media are stacked on the output tray; and (e) a control device configured to control the curl reduction device, such that the curl caused in an earlier one of the recording media is reduced by a smaller degree than the curl caused in a later one of the recording media that has been subjected to the image formation later than the earlier one of the recording media. | 10-03-2013 |
20130257964 | DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - A droplet ejection apparatus, including: an image-data storage; a droplet ejection head; a post-processing mechanism configured to perform drying processing and curl correction processing by a common processing technique on an image-formed recording medium; and a controller configured to: calculate a liquid ejection amount for each evaluation region on the recording medium; determine a first processing amount required for the drying processing, based on a maximum liquid ejection amount; determine, for each evaluation region, a second processing amount for the curl correction processing, based on the liquid ejection amount and a position of the evaluation region on the recording medium; and control the post-processing mechanism to perform the drying processing and the curl correction processing according to a maximum control amount of the post-processing mechanism among the first processing amount and the second processing amounts of the respective evaluation regions. | 10-03-2013 |
20140184681 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a plurality of liquid ejecting heads configured to eject liquids of a plurality of colors respectively from a plurality of ejection nozzles; an image data storage device configured to store image data with respect to an image to be recorded on a recording medium; a mode receiving device which receives one image quality mode from at least two image quality modes including a low image quality mode and a high image quality mode, as an image quality mode with respect to an image quality of the image; a control device configured to control the plurality of ejecting heads and generate a plurality of preliminary ejection data related to preliminary ejections for recovering ejection performances of the plurality of liquid ejecting heads for the plurality of liquid ejecting heads respectively. | 07-03-2014 |
20140240764 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - When first wireless communication is established, a mobile terminal sends image data specific information for specifying a set of image data to an image recording apparatus by the first wireless communication. When a set of image data associated with the image data specific information corresponding to the image data specific information received by the first wireless communication is stored, an image recording apparatus records an image corresponding to the stored set of image data onto a recording medium. When such a set of image data is not stored, the image recording apparatus receives the set of image data from the mobile terminal by the second wireless communication and records an image corresponding to the received set of image data onto the recording medium. The image recording apparatus then stores the received set of image data and the image data specific information in association with each other. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240777 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS EXECUTABLE BY IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS EXECUTABLE BY MOBILE TERMINAL, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM - An image recording system includes: a mobile terminal and an image recording apparatus. The mobile terminal and the image recording apparatus transfer communication setting information about the mobile terminal or the image recording apparatus over a first wireless communication. The mobile terminal transmits image data to the image recording apparatus over a second wireless communication. Each time when the first wireless communication is established, the mobile terminal obtains a signal relating to its position. The mobile terminal or the image recording apparatus creates change information about a change of the position based on a plurality of the signals and sets, based on the change information, at least one setting value respectively for at least one setting item relating to image recording. The image recording apparatus records an image on a recording medium based on the received image data and based on the set at least one setting value. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240778 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS EXECUTABLE BY MOBILE TERMINAL, AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording system includes a mobile terminal and an image recording apparatus. The mobile terminal successively stores signals representative of its position at least from establishment of first wireless communication between the mobile terminal and the image recording apparatus. When information produced based on the signals coincides with at least one of sets of reference information which respectively correspond to image recording conditions, the mobile terminal determines at least one command for commanding at least one image recording condition respectively corresponding to the at least one set of reference information. The mobile terminal transmits the at least one command to the image recording apparatus over the first wireless communication or second wireless communication and transmits image data to the image recording apparatus over the second wireless communication. The image recording apparatus uses at least one image recording condition to record an image based on the image data. | 08-28-2014 |