Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes s main body, a container, an outer cover which includes a fitting region and an inner cover. When the container is not fitted into the fitting region, the inner cover is held in a first position, and when the container is fitted into the fitting region, the inner cover is pressed by the container to be displaced to a second position. The main body includes a restriction unit, and when the outer cover is turned to a closed position in a state where the inner cover is held in the first position, the inner cover abuts against the restriction unit to restrict the outer cover from reaching the closed position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a storage device that stores relationships between each keyword and operation mechanisms to be released from a predefined power saving state, a receiver, and a controller. In a case where the receiver receives the voice instruction when the image forming apparatus is in a power saving state, the controller releases the operation mechanisms associated with a keyword indicated by the voice instruction received by the receiver from the power saving state and brings the operation mechanisms into an ordinary operating state, and causes the operation mechanisms not associated with the keyword indicated by the voice instruction to be maintained in the power saving state.

Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle. The toner particle includes a toner core. The toner core contains a binding resin, a magnetic particle and a carbon nanotube. The content of the magnetic particle in the toner core is equal to or greater than 30.0% by mass and equal to or less than 50.0% by mass, and the content of the carbon nanotube in the toner core is equal to or greater than 0.10% by mass and equal to or less than 1.00% by mass.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveying belt, an image pickup device, a storage device, and a control device. The control device includes a processor, and acts as a controller when the processor executes a program. The conveying belt transports a recording sheet, by performing a revolving movement. The image pickup device shoots an image of the conveying belt. The controller calculates a belt status value on a basis of the image of the conveying belt shot by the image pickup device, at a predetermined first time interval, and stores the calculated belt status value in the storage device.

Abstract: A document management system uploads documents and stores them. The documents include customer-filled forms having a form template and fields within each form having variable data. The data within the fields is extracted and stored in a database. The data can be plain text, confidential text, a signature, or an image. The data for the confidential text and the signature is encrypted prior to storage. The extracted data is placed in a customer form data file that is stored with other data files for the plurality of filled forms along with the form template. The form template and data file is retrieved to regenerate the form with the data within the fields.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device having one or more paper trays. A print job is received for the printing device having at least one media attribute. A digital front end (DFE) of the printing device parses a print ticket for the print job to determine the media attribute. The media attribute is compared to a paper catalog for the printing device. A list of media catalog entries is generated from the paper catalog that supports the media attribute. The DFE determines whether a media catalog entry of the list of media catalog entries is assigned to a paper tray. The print job is matched to the paper tray and the media related to the media catalog entry. The print job is processed using the paper in the paper tray.

Abstract: A developer carrying member includes a shaft, a magnet, a sleeve, a flange and an adhesive. The flange includes a fitting portion. The fitting portion includes a first support portion, a second support portion and a groove portion. The adhesive is disposed in the groove portion. When accuracy of runout required during rotation of the sleeve is R (?m), the length of the sleeve is L (mm), a distance from an end of the first support portion to an end of the second support portion is S (mm) and each of outside diameters of the first support portion and the second support portion is D (mm), the value of the R is 50, and R>L/(S×D)×1.9 is satisfied.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a sheet supply portion, and a control portion. The image forming portion forms an image on a sheet. The sheet supply portion supplies the sheet to the image forming portion. The control portion controls the image forming portion and the sheet supply portion. The control portion includes a first control substrate on which a first control element and a first storage element are mounted. The sheet supply portion includes a second control substrate on which a second control element and a second storage element are mounted. The first control element causes either one of the first storage element and the second storage element to store data related to the sheet supply portion and causes another one of the first storage element and the second storage element to back up the data related to the sheet supply portion at a predetermined timing.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a plurality of liquid tank, a pressure decreasing device, a circulation flow pass, a circulating device, a recording head, and a control device. The ink tanks store a liquid. The pressure decreasing device decreases pressure in the liquid tanks. The circulation flow pass is provided in each of the liquid tanks and communicates different positions of the liquid tank. The circulation device circulates the liquid through the circulation flow passes. The recording head ejects the liquid supplied from the liquid tanks. The control device selects the liquid tank for supplying the liquid to the recording head based on an amount of dissolved gas in the liquid tanks.

Abstract: A power supply device according to the present disclosure includes an AC voltage output circuit and a DC voltage output circuit. The DC voltage output circuit includes a first voltage dividing resistor provided between a power supply line of a voltage output portion and a ground potential, a second voltage dividing resistor provided between the first voltage dividing resistor and the ground potential, a capacitor provided in parallel with the second voltage dividing resistor, and an operational amplifier. An output of the AC voltage output circuit is connected to the voltage output portion of the DC voltage output circuit. A cutoff frequency of a low-pass filter circuit constituted of the first voltage dividing resistor, the second voltage dividing resistor, and the capacitor is set to be lower than a frequency of the AC voltage output from the AC voltage output circuit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls a drive waveform for varying an ink droplet diameter, when ejecting an ink droplet from a nozzle onto a solid portion. Along a main scanning direction, the controller alternately uses M waveform for ejecting the ink droplet of M size, and LL waveform for ejecting the ink droplet of LL size, to be used for non-ejection correction, for one of even-numbered rows and odd-numbered rows, and alternately uses S waveform for ejecting the ink droplet of S size and 0 (zero) waveform that restricts the ink droplet from being ejected, for the other of the rows. In a column direction along a sub scanning direction, the controller alternately uses M waveform and LL waveform, in a cycle of one of the rows, and alternately uses S waveform and 0 waveform, in the cycle of the other of the rows.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an endless conveying belt, a recording head, a sheet detection portion, and a control portion. The conveying belt has, over its entire circumference along its travel direction, a plurality of detection holes arrayed in a sheet conveying area. The sheet detection portion includes a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion facing each other across the conveying belt such that the light emitted from the light emitting portion passes through the detection holes to be received by the light receiving portion. Based on the light-blocked time for which the optical path between the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion is blocked from light by the conveying belt that moves at a predetermined speed, the control portion judges the presence or absence of the sheet.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member, a pair of holding members, and a pair of side plates. The pair of side plates are arranged in parallel to the conveying direction, and have recesses to which the pair of holding members are mounted along a mounting direction intersecting the conveying direction. Each of the pair of holding members includes a shaft support portion, a regulating surface, and an upstream groove and a downstream groove. The regulating surface regulates movement of the fixing member in the axial direction. The pair of holding members are configured such that, when the pair of holding members are mounted in the recesses such that the side plates are fitted into the upstream groove and the downstream groove, a distance between the regulating surfaces is widened from the upstream side to the downstream side in the conveying direction.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an operation device, a communication device, and a controller. The operation device allows a user's instruction to be input. The communication device performs communications via a network with an information processing device. When accepting specification of a port number through the operation device, the controller allows the communication device to use a specified port corresponding to the specified port number to send to-be-sent data to a shared folder on the information processing device. Upon failure to establish a connection with the information processing device using the specified port, the controller allows the communication device to use another port different from the specified port to send the to-be-sent-data to the shared folder.

Abstract: A circuit board has a mounting hole in which terminals of a laser diode are inserted, the terminals extending to the side opposite to a laser beam emitting direction. A peripheral wall portion has a guide member. The guide member protrudes from an outer circumferential surface and is inserted into a board insertion hole formed in the circuit board. A distal end of the guide member is positioned on an opposite side of the laser beam emitting direction with respect to a distal end of the laser diode terminal.

Abstract: A fixing deviceincludes a cylindrical fixing belt, a heater, a pressure roller, a pair of holding members, and a separation guide. The cylindrical fixing belt has flexibility and is rotatably supported. The heater heats the fixing belt. The pressure member is rotatably supported and faces the heater across the fixing belt to form a pressurized region for heating and pressurizing toner on a sheet between the fixing belt and the pressure member. The pair of holding members hold both end portions of the fixing belt. The separation guide separates the sheet passed through the pressurized region from the fixing belt. The separation guide is positioned with respect to the pair of holding members such that its tip faces the fixing belt at a predetermined interval and is supported movably in a direction away from the fixing belt.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head and an ink circulation portion including an ink storage container. The ink storage container includes a main body portion, a lid portion, an ink inflow port, an ink outflow port, and an air bubble discharge port. The ink circulation portion includes an ink storage container and a syringe. During an air bubble discharge process, the control portion makes the ink forcibly flow in through the ink inflow port and makes the ink flow out through the air bubble discharge port. During a printing process, the control portion makes the ink flow in through the ink inflow port and makes the ink flow in also through the air bubble discharge port.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that efficiently schedules jobs using AI and other methods. The scheduling management unit centrally manages the schedule setting for processing jobs on component apparatuses. The processing database stores characteristic data and processing result data for processed jobs, as well as processing performance data for the component apparatuses. The learning unit trains a model that optimally allocates the jobs to the component apparatuses based on the characteristic data, processing result data, and processing performance data stored in the processing database. The processing management unit allocates an unprocessed job to available schedule setting based on the model output results for the unprocessed job in accordance with instruction information that includes conditions to be prioritized, and it causes the corresponding component apparatus to process them.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head and an ink circulation portion including an ink storage container. The ink storage container includes a main body portion, a lid portion, an ink inflow port, an ink outflow port, and a bubble discharge port. The ink circulation portion includes a plurality of ink storage containers for one recording head. The recording head has a plurality of ink feed ports. The plurality of ink feed ports are connected respectively to the ink outflow ports of the corresponding ink storage containers and feeds the ink flowing out through the ink outflow ports of the corresponding ink storage containers to the recording head.

Abstract: A recording head includes an ink ejection portion and an ink reservoir coupled to the ink ejection portion. The ink reservoir includes an in-head flow passage coupled to a common flow passage for circulating ink, an air bubble separation portion that separates air bubbles contained in ink flowing through the in-head flow passage, a valve member that opens and closes an air bubble discharge port formed in a top part of the air bubble separation portion, and an ink discharge flow passage extending downward from an ink inflow port formed in a lower end part of the air bubble separation portion and coupled to the ink ejection portion. The in-head flow passage is coupled substantially horizontally to the ink discharge flow passage and a junction portion between the in-head and the ink discharge flow passages is below the ink inflow port.