Abstract: An image forming system is provided that alleviates throughput reductions and enables reductions in power consumption and lower noise. The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material and a plurality of sheet-conveying devices that convey the recording material. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store connecting orders of the plurality of sheet-conveying devices and a determination unit configured to determine which of the sheet-conveying devices should be given notification by an operation start request or an operation end request according to designation information that designates the sheet-conveying device to which the recording material is conveyed and the connecting orders for the plurality of sheet-conveying devices.

Abstract: When performing marginless printing for content data of a size which is the same as the sheet size, white streaks occur in the print result due to a convey error. Further, when object-data items included in the content data are simply magnified, a necessary object-data item may not be printed partly and/or entirely. Therefore, the present invention provides a printer magnifying the object-data items included in the content data appropriately on the printer side. The sheet size described in the content data is compared to the size of a sheet set in the printer and the content data is magnified so that an object-data item such as a text-data item considered as necessary for a user does not extend off the sheet size.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus comprising a control section to display a job scheduling screen in a display section and a storage section to store tray-paper information relating to a paper of each of trays, and the control section specifies a tray or a paper to be used in each of the jobs and displays the reservation information for a length corresponding to the number of sheets of paper planed to be used in each of the jobs in the second axis at a position on the first axis corresponding to the tray or the paper which is specified and the control section determines whether a job having a stopping cause which stops at least a part of the image forming process is reserved or not, and the control section displays job information relating to the job having the stopping cause in the job scheduling screen when determining that the job having the stopping cause is reserved.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus having a first sheet dimension sensor at a conveyance path in a reverse conveyance section 50, wherein the first sheet detection sensor 75 detects a front edge and a rear edge of the sheet P in a sheet conveyance direction so as to detect a first sheet dimension. According to the above configuration, since only a sensor has to be disposed at the conveyance path in the reverse conveyance section 50 so as to detect the sheet dimension in the sheet conveyance direction, a first sheet dimension can be detected by an economical sensor configuration.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a printing media recycling apparatus includes a printing-medium feeding section, a scanner section configured to read an image of printing medium and generate image data, the decoloring section configured to decolor an image formed of a decolorable recording material on the printing medium, a decoloring-processing-execution determining section configured to determine whether the execution of decoloring processing is appropriate for the printing medium or the execution of the decoloring processing is unnecessary based on the image data generated in the scanner section, a decoloring determining section configured to determine a decolored state of the printing medium after the execution of the decoloring processing by the decoloring section, and a diverting-section-switching control section configured to switch a diverting section to lead the printing medium to a predetermined discharge tray.

Abstract: The one embodiment of present invention provides an image forming apparatus including a memory unit that stores image data, a main control block that causes an image forming section to output an output image onto an output medium on the basis of the image data generated by an image reading section and stored in the memory unit, case members that houses any one of the memory unit and the main control block or both, respectively, and a cooling mechanism that is located in a predetermined position of the case members and guides an air flow that has passes through one case member to the other case member.

Abstract: A printing apparatus capable of processing a variable data printing (VDP) job including a plurality of records includes a determination unit configured to determine whether the number of occurrences of printing failures depending on a reusable object included in the VDP job is greater than or equal to a set number of times, and whether the number of appearing times of the reusable object on remaining pages of the VDP job is less than a set value, and a printing control unit configured to control continuing or cancelling the variable data printing job based on a determination result of the determination unit.

Abstract: When an image is formed on paper, which has been placed in paper feed cassettes (hereinafter called cassettes), in accordance with paper information concerning a cassette specified by a print job and a job ticket, the paper information concerning the specified cassette is compared with paper information that has been set for the cassettes. A cassette for which has been set paper information that matches the paper information concerning the specified cassette is held temporarily as a cassette for which a change of paper is unnecessary. The specified information is overwritten regarding a cassette, from among cassettes different from the temporarily held cassette, for which has been set a paper size that matches the paper size of the specified paper information. A display is presented for allowing the specified paper information to be changed to paper of the specified paper information regarding the overwritten cassette.

Abstract: A printing system includes a determination unit configured to determine whether input image data includes first data to be printed with the first recording agent and second data to be printed with the second recording agent, and whether the input data inhibits misregistration in a printing position between the first data and the second data on the printing paper, a first printing unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the input image data inhibits the misregistration in the printing position, transfer and fix the data using the first recording agent and the second recording agent, and a second printing unit configured to, when the determination unit does not determine that the input image data inhibits the misregistration, after transferring and fixing the first data by using the first recording agent, to transfer and fix again the second data by using the second recording agent.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with a job storage portion that stores a print job relating to an image forming process and a command job relating to a control process of operation of the image forming apparatus, a job management portion that registers the print job and the command job in the job storage portion and manages the print job and the command job, an image formation portion that executes the print job, a command execution portion that executes the command job, and a controller that performs control such that the print job stored in the job storage portion is executed ahead of the command job.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus equipped with an image forming unit capable of image formation using color toner and transparent toner includes, a determining unit to determine whether each pixel of image data belongs to an image region or a text region; a control unit to control the image forming unit by switching between transfer of a toner image to the image region and transfer of a toner image to the text region; a fixing unit to fix the toner image formed on recording material; and a transport unit to discharge the recording material on which the toner image is fixed or re-feed the recording material to the image forming unit.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus is supplied, which can continuously read plural manuscripts and memorize separatively their image data. The image reading apparatus can read plural manuscripts each is formed from head sheet and document sheet in pairs and read the plural manuscripts as respective image data, and comprises a sheet identifying section which identifies the head sheet; an information obtaining section which obtains sort information of the document sheet from the head sheet after the sheet identifying section identified the head sheet; and a reading section which reads the document sheet following the head sheet on the basis of the sort information obtained by said information obtaining section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus displays a screen for enabling an operator to select settings for controlling a print output from an image forming apparatus and post-processing applied to a printed product by an independent post-processing apparatus. The post-processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain post-processing information from the post-processing apparatus and a display control unit configured to change contents of the setting screen based on obtained function information and display a changed setting screen. The image forming apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine based on obtained function information whether the image forming apparatus can execute a print output accompanied by post-processing using the post-processing apparatus, and control a display unit to display a setting screen for controlling the post-processing function when the image forming apparatus can execute the print output accompanied by post-processing.

Abstract: Print setting is executed using, as print setting items associated with printing, a setting item on the paper type of printing paper used for printing and a setting item which designates whether to execute manual duplex printing. When execution of manual duplex printing is set, the print page order of a target of manual duplex printing is controlled in accordance with the set paper type. A print command to the target of manual duplex printing is output to a printing apparatus on the basis of the controlled print page order.

Abstract: A print method of an image forming apparatus that loads at least one sheet of print media in a print media feeding tray, the method including: setting a print-all-paper mode to perform a print operation on the print media loaded in the print media feeding tray without selecting a number of sheets of print media; and performing a print operation on the loaded print media according to the set print-all-paper mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which transfers clear toner and at least one of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black color toner onto a recording medium to form an image based on image information and image classification information, the apparatus including a clear priority determiner configured to determine a clear priority based on the image classification information; a toner adherence amount determiner determining amounts of the color toners and the clear toner to be adhered to the recording medium based on the image information and the clear priority; and a toner transferer transferring the color toners and the clear toner onto the recording medium in amounts determined by the toner adherence amount determiner.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs a single-side image formation such that, when a delay is needed, a stacked sheet discharge control section controls a sheet carrying mechanism so that: a first sheet (for a second imaging job) to be discharged after passing a first sheet-discharging roller via a first sheet-carrying path is directed to another carrying path without being discharged, and is stood by therein. The first sheet and a second sheet (for the second imaging job) which is carried to the first sheet-discharging roller via the first sheet-carrying path after the first sheet, then are concurrently discharged overlappingly. This eliminates needs for delaying image formation for the second imaging job, and for securing time for post-process for the first imaging job. Even if a delay is inevitable, this reduces the delay time greatly and improves the productivity of the image forming apparatus, without reducing its performance wastefully.

Abstract: In a first mode, an original is read with a first and a second carriages stopped. In a second mode, the original is read with the first and the second carriages moving in a sub-scanning direction with a distance between the original and an optical reading element kept constant. A control unit causes, if a predetermined condition is satisfied after reading the original in the first mode, the first and the second carriages to standby at a reading position of the first mode while keeping the light source turned on, and if a next read request is issued within a predetermined time, causes the first and the second carriages to move to a next reading operation.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including a drive source; a driven member detachably attachable to the apparatus body; a first transmission member in the apparatus body, including a base rotatable around a rotation axis, and transmitting drive force from the drive source to the driven member; and a second transmission member in the driven member, including a base rotatable around the rotation axis, and transmitting drive force from the first transmission member to the driven member. Any of the first and second transmission members includes a projection, and the other includes a receiving port. The receiving port receives the projection when a rotation angle between the first and second transmission members is an angle set in advance while not receiving the projection when the rotation angle is out of the angle, at the time of mounting the driven member on the apparatus body.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus to output, to an image forming apparatus, a print job using paper stored in paper feed units includes an acquisition unit, a generation unit, an addition unit, and a transmission unit. The acquisition unit acquires configuration information for each paper feed unit including type and number of sheets of paper capable of storage in each paper feed unit. The generation unit generates, based on type and number of sheets of paper required to be used for an externally acquired print job and the acquired configuration information, paper allocation information for associating a paper feed unit with type and number of sheets of paper in such away as to reduce replacement of paper. The addition unit adds the generated paper allocation information to the print job. The transmission unit transmits the print job with the added paper allocation information to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for forming images on recording media of different sizes are provided. The image forming procedure may include reading setting information which includes the size of a substitute recording medium for each user from a memory and, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available, executing a print instruction by automatically changing the size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information. Additional computer-readable storage media storing image forming procedures are also provided.

Abstract: A method of printing a job having a type using an electrophotographic (EP) printer includes receiving the job and its type. A processor is used to automatically select a first or a second job mode based on the job type; the first job mode indicates aggressive gray component replacement (aGCR) is used but not clear toner, and the second job mode indicates clear toner is used but not aGCR. The data of the job are processed using the processor according to the selected job mode to provide six separations corresponding to respective colorants. Toner corresponding to the six separations is then applied to the receiver using at least one EP printing module in the EP printer to produce a print image of the job.

Abstract: A system is adapted for simulating a textured pattern on a non-textured substrate. The system includes generating at least a first textured description in a controller unit operatively associated with at least one image forming apparatus. The first textured description is combined with at least one image of an original print job to generate a first print job. The first textured description is printed on at least one face of a substrate to provide a perceived first textured substrate. The at least one image is then printed on the perceived first textured substrate.

Abstract: When displaying in the energy saving mode, an operation screen having operation buttons related to functions that can be used in the energy saving mode, control is carried out so that the operation buttons related to the functions that can be used in the energy saving mode are displayed in a form that is different from that of the operation buttons related to the functions that can be used only during the normal mode. For example, the operation buttons that can only be used in the normal mode are not displayed in the operation screen of the energy saving mode, or else, the operation buttons that can only be used in the normal mode and the operation buttons that can be used in the energy saving mode are displayed in different colors.

Abstract: To provide an output system and an output device capable of easily unifying a documentary form relating to an event without increasing the number of work processes, in a system wherein output data is transmitted to an output device such as a printer, via a communication network from a requesting device such as a personal computer, and printing based on the output data is performed at the output device. An output device 1 records in a format information database 12a format information showing an output format including the documentary form of printing, correspondingly to index information showing an event. A user using a requesting device 2 makes the requesting device 2 send the output data to the output device 1 and designate the index information. The output device 1 performs output based on the output data, in the output format shown by designated index information.

Abstract: A printing apparatus performs print processing on a plurality of sheets according to print data input by an input unit, and sets the printing unit to a first operation state in which monochromatic print processing is capable of being performed or to a second operation state in which color print processing is capable of being performed. The printing apparatus enables selection between a first print mode and a second print mode. In the first print mode, a sheet is conveyed at a defined speed in the monochromatic print processing and is conveyed at a speed lower than the defined speed in the color print processing. In the second print mode, a sheet is conveyed at a speed lower than the defined speed both in the monochromatic print processing and in the color print processing.

Abstract: An image forming system of a series-connected tandem configuration includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected in series, and when a job in a both-side mode in which images are formed on both sides of a sheet is executed, one of the image forming apparatuses forms an image on one side of the sheet, and an image forming apparatus different from the image forming apparatus forming the image on the one side forms an image on the other side of the sheet. The image forming system comprising a control section for managing execution of a job of each of the image forming apparatuses, receiving an execution reservation of each of a plurality of jobs, managing the received jobs as reservation jobs, selecting a reservation job for which the image forming apparatuses operate concurrently among the reservation jobs, and preferentially executing the selected reservation job.

Abstract: If a user specifies shutdown of the power supply of an apparatus from a console, another apparatus connected to the same network is notified so as not to issue a request for a new shared job, and it is determined whether a scheduled shared job exists. The display on a display screen is changed in accordance with the result of the determination. If it is determined that a shared job exists, shutdown of the power supply is controlled in accordance with the status of execution of the shared job.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tandem-type image forming system performing single-sided printing and double-sided printing on a sheet, the image forming system including: a first image forming apparatus; and a second image forming apparatus connected with the first image forming apparatus in series, wherein when the single-sided printing is performed, either the first image forming apparatus or the second image forming apparatus performs printing on a sheet, and when the double-sided printing is performed, both the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus performs the printing on a sheet, the image forming system further including: a control section which controls a sheet-passing image forming apparatus which is either the first image forming apparatus or the second image forming apparatus, and does not perform the printing but performs sheet-passing in the single-sided printing.

Abstract: A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printing device and system for carrying out a print job with a digital printing machine, preferably with a printing machine that works with a toner, in particular with an electrophotographically operating printing machine, whereby the sheets (1) are preferably printed by recto-printing and verso-printing, whereby the sheets (1) to be printed are divided into batches, and whereby, in the case of batches that are incompletely occupied with sheets (1), the slots of the missing sheets are replaced by an approximately sheet-sized toner field (3) on the transport belt (4) for the sheets.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can be connected to an image-forming apparatus, a method, and a program used for the information processing apparatus are disclosed. The information processing apparatus comprises a control unit for controlling print-setting information set for document data to be printed, a recognition unit for recognizing information about a first function specified by the print-setting information by translating the print-setting information controlled by the control unit, an obtaining unit for obtaining information about a second function of the image-forming apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus, a determination unit for determining whether or not the image-forming apparatus can perform the first function recognized by the recognition unit based on the second-function information obtained by the obtaining unit, and a modification unit for modifying the print-setting information controlled by the control unit based on the determination result.

Abstract: According to the claimed invention, an information-processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, comprises: a setting unit (S2201), configured to set, as part of a print setting when printing document data that includes a plurality of pages to print, a bookbinding setting for casing a sheet printed with a page to be used for a body out of the plurality of pages with a sheet printed with a page to be used for a front cover out of the plurality of pages; and a generator (S2211, S2212), configured to generate, if the bookbinding setting is set, body print data for repeatedly printing, in collated form, a first page to a last page of the body in the document data for a specified plurality of copies, and front cover print data for printing the front cover for a number of sheets equivalent to the specified plurality of copies.

Abstract: A print management apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate, from a document including a clear toner page on which both colored toner and clear toner are used and an insert page on which the colored toner is used without the use of the clear toner, a clear toner page print job for printing the clear toner page by using the colored toner without using the clear toner, and an insert print job for applying the clear toner on the clear toner page printed by using the colored toner without using the clear toner and for printing the insert page by using the colored toner. The print management apparatus also includes a first instruction unit configured to instruct an execution of the clear toner page print job, and a second instruction unit configured to instruct an execution of the insert print job after a predetermined period of time elapses.

Abstract: A control apparatus controls at least one of the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus connected downstream of the first image forming apparatus so that when switching from a first mode to a second mode, if the second image forming apparatus is unable to perform image forming on a second side of a sheet whose first side has undergone image forming in the second image forming apparatus before the second image forming apparatus performs image forming on a second side of a sheet whose first side has undergone image forming in the first image forming apparatus, an order of the sheet whose first and second sides undergo image forming in the second image forming apparatus and the sheet whose first side undergoes image forming in the first image forming apparatus and whose second side undergoes image forming in the second image forming apparatus is not swapped.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveying belt; a first photosensitive member; and a second photosensitive member; a first transfer member; a second transfer member; a first pushing member; a second pushing member; and a changing unit, wherein the first photosensitive member is disposed on the upstream side of the second photosensitive member in a conveying direction of the transfer receiving member, and the changing unit changes the pushing force of the second transfer member that is disposed on the downstream side of the first photosensitive member in a conveying direction of the transfer receiving member.

Abstract: Confidentiality of a job that requires authentication processing prior to printing is maintained as much as possible. A method for controlling a printing system is provided that is capable of receiving a plurality of types of print jobs including a first type print job that requires authentication processing prior to printing and a second type print job that does not require authentication processing prior to printing, comprising the steps of allowing the printing system to execute a specific operation for allowing the printing system to start printing of a target job in case where resources required to complete printing of the target job are present in the printing system and causing the printing system to execute the specific operation in case where the target job is the first type job.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes a generating unit that generates color image data based on gloss-control image data, the gloss-control image data containing a gloss control value for identifying a type of a surface effect being a visual or a tactile effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium, and generates clear-toner image data based on presence or absence of at least one post processing device connected to the printing device and based on a type of the post processing device; a post-processing control unit that controls the post processing device in accordance with the presence or absence of the post processing device connected to the printing device and the type of the post processing device; and an output unit that outputs the clear-toner image data.

Abstract: Print job management information, including management actions performed by a press operator, is collected from a print job manager. An evaluator evaluates the collected print job management information using an evaluation algorithm to generate a predicted press-operator job release sequence of one or more of the print jobs. The evaluation algorithm may be adapted to predict print job release behavior of the press operator. A print job is selected in accordance with the predicted press-operator job release sequence. Print job preprocessing of the selected print job is initiated in the printing system, prior to actual release of the print job by the press operator. Actual print-job release information may be compared with a predicted job release sequence to revise the evaluation algorithm.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit configured to form an image onto an image forming medium based on received print data by using a cartridge removably provided, a cartridge determination unit configured to determine whether an MICR cartridge is inserted as the cartridge, a determination unit configured to compare a password input by an password input unit and a password registered in a password storage unit and determine whether an image forming process of the received print data is allowed to be performed, and a control unit configured to temporarily stop processing the print data, cause the notification unit to send the notification to input the password, and perform an MICR image forming control process that causes the image forming unit to resume the processing of the print data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire configuration information for each of a plurality of paper feed units including type and number of sheets of paper capable of storage in each paper feed unit, a generation unit configured to, based on type and number sheets of paper required to be used for an externally acquired print job and the configuration information acquired by the acquisition unit, generate paper allocation information for associating a paper feed unit with type and number of sheets of paper to be stored in the paper feed unit so as to reduce replacement of paper, an addition unit configured to add the paper allocation information generated by the generation unit to the print job, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the print job with the paper allocation information added by the addition unit to the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: For a sheet circulating transfer route that includes a sheet transfer portion of a printing mechanism provided with a transfer belt for transfer of a sheet as positioned thereto, a transfer section provided with drive rollers for transfer of a sheet as image-formed by an image former of the printing mechanism, and a sheet invert portion operable for inversion of the sheet as image-formed, there is a drive controller adapted, in conformity to a condition that a sheet to be positioned in the printing mechanism is equal in length to or longer than a path distance from the image former to the drive rollers, to set a transfer speed of the sheet as image-formed by the drive rollers up as an identical speed to a transfer speed of the sheet as positioned by the transfer belt, and in non-conformity to the condition, to set it up as a greater speed than the transfer speed by the transfer belt.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus inputs print data from an external device, and analyzes the input print data. The image processing apparatus rasterizes the print data into first image data on the basis of the analysis result. The image processing apparatus receives status information representing the status of a printing apparatus, temporarily saves the first image data in a holding unit on the basis of the received status information and the analysis result, interrupts a transfer process for the first image data to the printing apparatus, starts the transfer process for second image data to the printing apparatus, and transfers, to the printing apparatus, setting information of the print data that corresponds to the first image data. The printing apparatus determines whether corresponding image data has been received within a predetermined period after reception of the setting information of the print data from the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A disclosed image formation apparatus includes: a manual paper feed unit supplying a recording material; an image formation unit receiving the recording material from the manual paper feed unit; an image removal device removing an image recorded on the recording material; an installation unit detachably installing the image removal device on the image formation apparatus; and a switching unit switching whether the recording material fed from the manual paper feed unit is supplied to the image removal device installed using the installation unit or to the image formation unit.

Abstract: The task is accomplished by an image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus including a heating fixing portion and a host computer capable of instructing printing. In an image forming apparatus, a throughput can be changed and discriminated in accordance with a printing number, wherein for printing on a small size sheet, said system is operable in a normal small size sheet mode, and in a high speed small size sheet output mode in which the printing is effected at a throughput which is higher than in the normal small size sheet mode, and after completion of the printing, the image forming apparatus rests for a predetermined rest period, wherein said host computer includes a mode selector for selecting a mode from the high speed small size sheet output mode and the normal small size sheet mode, and a controller for transmitting the mode selected by said mode selector to said image forming apparatus.

Abstract: Methods are provided for forming a combination print having an image thereon. In accordance with one aspect, a first receiver is provided having a first side with a toner in an overlap area and the first receiver is overlapped with a second receiver overlapping the first receiver; and the first receiver and second receiver are moved in the overlapped position past a print engine so that an image is formed on the combination of the first receiver and the second receiver with contiguous application of toner forming the image applied across the first receiver and the second receiver, the first receiver and second receiver are fused to bind the prints together and to fix the toner to form a combination print having a continuously applied image.

Abstract: Printers are provided. In one aspect, a printer has a printer controller cooperating with a print engine, receiver transport system, overlap positioning system, and fuser to cause a first toner image to be formed on the first side of the first receiver with toner at least in an overlap area proximate to a first edge of the first receiver; to overlap the first edge of the first receiver with a second edge of the second receiver having a second thickness at a second end and to fuse the overlapped first receiver and second receiver to cause the toner in the overlap area to bond the first receiver to the second receiver. The first toner image includes an edge concealment toner pattern positioned confronting the second edge with the edge concealment toner pattern having toner that reduces the visual impact of image artifacts created by the overlapping second edge.

Abstract: Methods for operating a printer to form a combination print with improved appearance are provided. In one aspect first receiver is provided with a first thickness at a first edge and having a first toner image on a first side with toner in an overlap area proximate the first edge. The first edge and overlap area are overlapped with a second receiver having a second thickness at a second edge; and the first receiver and second receiver are fused to cause any toner thereon to fuse such that the toner in the overlap area bonds the first receiver to the second receiver. The first toner image includes an edge concealment toner pattern positioned confronting the second edge with the edge concealment toner pattern having toner that reduces the visual impact of artifacts created by the overlapping second edge.

Abstract: A printer is provided for forming a durable combination of printed receivers having a printer controller cooperating with a print engine, receiver transport system, overlap positioning system and fuser to cause a first toner image on the first side of the first receiver with toner in an overlap area proximate to a first edge of the first receiver and a toner edge shield; to overlap the first edge of the first receiver with a second edge of the second receiver having a second thickness and to fuse the overlapped first receiver and second receiver to cause the toner in the overlap area to bond receivers receiver. The toner edge shield forms a first end confronting the second edge that extends from a first side of the first receiver to at least about 50% of the second thickness and that has a deflection surface that slopes toward a second end.

Abstract: Methods forming a durable combination print and a printed article are provided. In one aspect, a first receiver is provided with a first thickness at a first edge and having a first toner image on a first side with toner at least in an overlap area proximate the first edge and toner forming a toner edge shield. The first edge and overlap area are overlapped with a second receiver having a second thickness at a second edge; and, the first receiver and the second receiver are fused to cause the toner in the overlap area to bond the first receiver to the second receiver. The first toner image includes a toner edge shield with a first end confronting the second edge that extends from the first side of the first receiver to at least about 50% of the second thickness and has a deflection surface sloped toward a second end.

Abstract: A printing apparatus performs print processing on a plurality of sheets according to print data input by an input unit, and sets the printing unit to a first operation state in which monochromatic print processing is capable of being performed or to a second operation state in which color print processing is capable of being performed. The printing apparatus enables selection between a first print mode and a second print mode. In the first print mode, a sheet is conveyed at a defined speed in the monochromatic print processing and is conveyed at a speed lower than the defined speed in the color print processing. In the second print mode, a sheet is conveyed at a speed lower than the defined speed both in the monochromatic print processing and in the color print processing.