Abstract: A delivery system has a plurality of delivering devices, each of which includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage spaces for storing therein recording media according to the unit of customer's order and a delivering controlling unit operable to obtain ID information associated with the recording medium, thereby realizing delivery of the recording medium associated with the ID information, a guiding device including an ID information obtaining section for obtaining the ID information from a customer, and an information outputting section for outputting information and a guiding controlling unit for controlling said information obtaining section and the information outputting section.

Abstract: A delivery system includes a plurality of storage units each of which has a plurality of storage spaces for storing therein recording media according to the unit of customer's order, one or more feeding units for feeding the recording media stored in the storage unit to the outside, an identification (ID) information obtaining section for obtaining ID information; and a main delivering controlling unit for controlling the storage unit such that the main delivering controlling unit determines the position of a recording medium stored in the storage unit in relational association with the ID information and subsequently feeds this recording medium, when the ID information obtaining section has obtained the ID information.

Abstract: When an identification code relating to a subject order is obtained by an acquisition unit, a determination unit determines whether or not printed photographs relating to the subject order are housed in a housing unit. When the determination unit determines that the printed photographs relating to the subject order are not housed in the housing unit, the transmission unit transmits a request for calculation of an expected time to housing to a management server. A notification unit notifies a user of the expected time to housing, transmitted from the management server, as an expected time to delivery of the printed photographs relating to the subject order.

Abstract: When a newly received printed photograph and an undelivered order exist in relation to an identical user, a delivery device is controlled such that the newly received printed photograph is delivered at the same time as a printed photograph relating to the undelivered order.

Abstract: A print order system includes: a print forming unit that forms prints according to an order of a customer; a print delivery unit for delivering the prints to the customer that includes a plurality of storage portions wherein the prints outputted from the print forming unit can be stored; and a management unit that manages information representative of the status of each of the storage portions and the status of the prints stored therein, wherein the management unit changes the information when the prints are removed from a corresponding storage portion after a reserve period of the prints in the print delivery unit elapses, and the print delivery unit includes a notification means for enabling the customer to be notified based on the changed information in response to a print pick-up request of the customer after the reserve period elapses.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer supplying roller for supplying to a predetermined print position a developer charged to predetermined polarity, and a print head provided in the print position and having electrode pairs which are respectively provided with developer passing holes, each pair including a first electrode and a second electrode connecting with each other, and being so adapted that the developer passing holes are opened or closed by control of an electric field between the first and second electrodes, on the basis of whether print dot data is sent in synchronization with a predetermined print clock signal. At a time when the print dot data is sent in synchronism with the print clock signal, the electric field is controlled such that the developer is attracted from the developer supplying roller to the first electrode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided, in which a plurality of toner passage holes are formed in a board, and an image information generator applies a voltage between a pair of electrodes to form an electric field within each toner passage hole, so as to pass toner through the toner passage hole. The diameter and the axial length of each toner passage hole are so determined as to avoid clogging with toner.