Abstract: A transfer device includes an endless belt having a surface roughness Rz ranging approximately from 0.05 ?m to 0.15 ?m and a cleaning blade that serves to clean the belt and that includes a resin substrate having a substantially planar shape and a coating layer covering at least one edge of the resin substrate, wherein the coating layer has a connection layer and a surface layer, the connection layer is disposed so as to face the interface with the resin substrate and contains diamond-like carbon and at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium nitride, titanium silicon, titanium tungsten, titanium carbide, and titanium carbonitride, and the surface layer covers the connection layer and contains diamond-like carbon.

Abstract: A method for generating a color system conversion table includes generating a third color system conversion table in which a color specification value of a CMY color system including three primary colors of pigment is an input and a color specification value of the device independent color space is an output, wherein the number of input lattice points of the third color system conversion table is determined such that the number of input lattice points of the third color system conversion table decreases as the gamut size of the printer decreases.

Abstract: A transfer device includes an endless belt having a surface roughness Rz ranging approximately from 0.05 ?m to 0.15 ?m and a cleaning blade that serves to clean the belt and that includes a resin substrate having a substantially planar shape and a coating layer covering at least one edge of the resin substrate, wherein the coating layer has a connection layer and a surface layer, the connection layer is disposed so as to face the interface with the resin substrate and contains diamond-like carbon and at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium nitride, titanium silicon, titanium tungsten, titanium carbide, and titanium carbonitride, and the surface layer covers the connection layer and contains diamond-like carbon.

Abstract: A belt-shaped member includes an endless belt-shaped base member that has a circumferential edge and that is supported by plural support members. The belt-shaped member also includes a meandering preventing member that is provided along the circumferential edge of the base member and that has a bonding surface bonded to the base member. When a diameter of at least one of the plural support members is 25 mm or less, a protective film having a thickness of from 5 to 20 ?m is formed on the bonding surface of the meandering preventing member.

Abstract: A meander control member includes a bonding surface to be bonded to an endless belt substrate and a longitudinally extending region other than the bonding surface. The longitudinally extending region contains a polyester elastomer and has a friction coefficient of about 0.5 to about 0.7.

Abstract: A sliding member includes a base material including a contact area which contacts with a member to be slid, wherein a Young's modulus E1 with respect to the thickness of the contact area from a surface of the contact area is from 10 MPa to 200,000 MPa and a thickness T of the contact area is from 10 nm to 500 nm.

Abstract: A sliding member includes a base material including a contact area which contacts with a member to be slid, wherein a Young's modulus E1 with respect to the thickness of the contact area from a surface of the contact area is from 10 MPa to 200,000 MPa and a thickness T of the contact area is from 10 nm to 500 nm.

Abstract: An endless belt includes an endless belt base material, and a belt meandering suppression member that has a belt shape and is disposed in a circumferential direction of at least one end portion of the belt base material in a width direction, wherein a value obtained by subtracting a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the belt meandering suppression member from a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the belt base material is from ?1×10?5/° C. to 20×10?5/° C., and a tensile stress of the belt meandering suppression member at a 300% elongation is equal to or more than 5 MPa.

Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for manufacturing a tubular body is provided. The method includes maintaining at about 15° C. or lower a heat-curable solution containing a polyimide precursor solution in which a conductive agent having an acidic group is dispersed; coating the heat-curable solution maintained at about 15° C. or lower on a core body to form a coating film of the heat-curable solution, and curing the coating film by heating to obtain a tubular body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thermosetting solution includes a process for preparing a solution having a conductive material having an acid group dispersed in the solution, preparing a polyimide precursor solution, and mixing the solution having the conductive material dispersed therein and the polyimide precursor solution, and stirring the mixed solution using a stirring tank in which a stirring blade is disposed and the minimum gap between the inner surface of the stirring tank and the stirring blade is from about 1 mm to about 15 mm.

Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for manufacturing a tubular body is provided. The method includes maintaining at about 15° C. or lower a heat-curable solution containing a polyimide precursor solution in which a conductive agent having an acidic group is dispersed; coating the heat-curable solution maintained at about 15° C. or lower on a core body to form a coating film of the heat-curable solution, and curing the coating film by heating to obtain a tubular body.

Abstract: It is disclosed a method of generating mapping data for converting first image data adapted to be reproduced by a first imaging device having a first gamut to second image data adapted to be reproduced by a second imaging device having a second gamut which is different from the first gamut. A third gamut is determined so as to include the first gamut and the second gamut. The first gamut is extended to the third gamut to obtain first mapping relationships. The third gamut is compressed to obtain second mapping relationships. It is generated mapping data associating first colors included in the first gamut with second colors included in the second gamut by way of the first mapping relationships and the second mapping relationships.

Abstract: An image-processing device adapted to the increased types of color printers without excessive manpower includes a common color correction unit, which carries out a conversion (color correction or customization) common to the models of color printers. Therefore, the method for conversion does not need to be changed depending on the type of color printer. As a result, color correction mode-adapted LUTs, stored color correction LUTs, and light source correction LUTs needed for the common color correction unit do not increase even if the models of color printers increase, and common LUTs can be used. Consequently, the manpower needed to fabricate the color correction mode-adapted LUTs, stored color correction LUTs, and light source correction LUTs does not increase even if the models of printers increase, so that the image-processing device can be adapted to an increase of the models of color printers without excessive manpower.

Abstract: It is disclosed a method of generating mapping data for converting first image data adapted to be reproduced by a first imaging device having a first gamut to second image data adapted to be reproduced by a second imaging device having a second gamut which is different from the first gamut. A third gamut is determined so as to include the first gamut and the second gamut. The first gamut is extended to the third gamut to obtain first mapping relationships. The third gamut is compressed to obtain second mapping relationships. It is generated mapping data associating first colors included in the first gamut with second colors included in the second gamut by way of the first mapping relationships and the second mapping relationships.

Abstract: The gamut G1 of the monitor (the first image equipment) is mapped for making the lightness at the maximum color saturation point P11 in the monitor gamut G1 agree with the lightness at the maximum color saturation point P13 in the printer (second image equipment) gamut G3 in the same hue, then said post-mapping gamut G2 is mapped in the printer gamut G3 to specify the correspondence relationship between the color gamut of the monitor and that of the printer, and the RGB data (the first image data) are color converted into the amount of ink data (the second image data) according to the correspondence relationship specified thereby.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an image-processing device adapted to the increased types of color printers without excessive manpower.