Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor, a conveyance control portion, a driving control portion, an adjustment processing portion, and a stop processing portion. The temperature sensor is provided apart from a contact position between a fixing member and a transferred sheet to which a toner image has been transferred. The conveyance control portion continuously executes conveyance processes of conveying the transferred sheet. The driving control portion controls driving of a heater for heating the fixing member so that a temperature detected by the temperature sensor matches a predetermined temperature. The adjustment processing portion restricts the execution of the conveyance process until an adjustment process of adjusting a formation condition of the transferred sheet is completed. The stop processing portion stops the continuous execution of the conveyance processes when the restriction on the execution of the conveyance process continues beyond a predetermined timing.

Abstract: A method of logging thread parallelism data include executing a plurality of threads at a multicore processor associated with an operating system to perform symmetrical multiprocessing. The method also includes tracking, at a logging subsystem of the operating system, an accumulated runtime associated with each thread combination of the plurality of threads during execution of the plurality of threads. The accumulated runtime of a particular thread combination increases while the particular thread combination is running on the multicore processor in parallel. The method also include generating, at the logging subsystem, logging data indicating the accumulated runtime for each thread combination. The method further includes outputting the logging data. The logging data is usable to increase thread parallelism at the multicore processor.

Abstract: A spot color adjustment system allows an operator to adjust spot colors through the use of test charts printed at a printing device. A target color swatch is determined from a first spot color. A test chart is generated based on the target color swatch that includes a plurality of rings of color swatches centered on the target color swatch. Each ring of color swatches is positioned around the target color swatch at an adjustment value. The adjustment value for each ring of color swatches corresponds to a color change from the target color swatch. The system allows for determining a number of rings of color swatches depending on a selected paper size. The outer rings of a large number of rings of color include intermediary color swatches. A midpoint color is determined from a plurality of selected color swatches. The system provides color swatches showing gray component replacement.

Abstract: A transfer unit includes first and second rollers, a roller switching mechanism, and upstream-side and downstream-side guides. The second roller is arranged downstream of the first roller in the conveyance direction of the recording medium. The roller switching mechanism selectively arranges the first or second roller at a reference position to form a transfer nip. The upstream-side and downstream-side guides are respectively arranged upstream and downstream of the transfer nip in the conveyance direction of the recording member. When the first roller moves to the reference position by the roller switching mechanism, the second roller moves to a first retracted position behind the downstream-side guide, and when the second roller moves to the reference position by the roller switching mechanism, the first roller moves to a second retracted position behind the upstream-side guide.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a reverse transport device reverses the front and back faces of the sheet and transports the sheet to a position upstream of a show-through reading device in a sheet transport direction, and the show-through reading device reads a second face, which is another face of the sheet. Then the show-through detector decides whether a show-through has occurred, on a basis of the image that has been read.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sensing processing portion, a determination processing portion, an acquisition processing portion, an acceptance processing portion, and a setting processing portion. The sensing processing portion senses a sheet size. The determination processing portion determines whether the sheet size corresponds to any of a plurality of standard sizes based on a result of the sensing by the sensing processing portion. The acquisition processing portion acquires sheet attribute information that is determined for each sheet type based on a result of the determination by the determination processing portion or the result of the sensing by the sensing processing portion. The acceptance processing portion accepts a selection operation of selecting any of the acquired sheet attribute information. The setting processing portion sets a processing condition of a sheet based on the sheet attribute information selected by the selection operation.

Abstract: Systems and methods relate generally to contextually providing a dynamic user interface. In an example method thereof, an apps list is obtained by a dynamic scheduling service for an operating system. The apps list is generated responsive to a query by the operating system responsive to a request by the dynamic scheduling service. Dynamic scheduling data is obtained by the dynamic scheduling service, which includes generating the dynamic scheduling data by an artificial intelligence service including filtering apps on the apps list responsive to a policy. A dynamic user interface is created by the dynamic scheduling service responsive to the dynamic scheduling data, which includes deactivating one or more of the apps on the apps list by the artificial intelligence service responsive to the policy.

Abstract: An inkjet textile printing ink includes coloring particles and an aqueous medium. The coloring particles each include a core and a shell layer covering the core. The core contains a polyester resin and a dye. The shell layer contains a specific resin with a non-ring-opened oxazoline group and an amide ester group. The polyester resin preferably includes a non-crystalline polyester resin.

Abstract: The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a first conveyor belt, and an ink receiving part. The ink receiving part includes a discharge port, a liquid-absorptive rotator, and a counter member. The discharge port is placed at an end portion in a crossing direction crossing a recording-medium conveyance direction, and discharges ink received in flashing. The liquid-absorptive rotator is formed from a liquid-absorptive material and rotated around a rotating shaft extending in the crossing direction. The counter member, being in contact with the liquid-absorptive rotator, has a conveyance structure for conveying ink in the ink receiving part in a carry-out direction directed toward the discharge port along an axial direction of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A signal processing board includes a six-layer substrate in which six wiring layers are stacked, and a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element mounted on the outer surface of a first layer of the six wiring layers. A plurality of signal transmission patterns are formed in the first layer, a third layer, a fourth layer, and a sixth layer of the six wiring layers. A first ground pattern is formed in a second layer. A second ground pattern is formed in a fifth layer. A first power supply pattern is formed in one of the fourth layer, the fifth layer, and the sixth layer. A second power supply pattern is formed in one of the fourth layer, the fifth layer, and the sixth layer.

Abstract: A USB host portion is supplied with power in a normal mode, and the power supply is stopped in a power saving mode. The USB host portion can acquire print request data from a communication device while outputting a first control signal. Power is supplied to a signal input portion and a signal output portion in both modes. The signal input portion can receive a signal from the communication device. A control portion shifts to the normal mode when a notification signal is input to the signal input portion while operating in the power saving mode. The signal output portion outputs a second control signal in both the normal mode and the power saving mode. The voltage output portion outputs a rated voltage to the communication device when at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal is output.

Abstract: A sheet folding device includes a sheet conveyance path, a first folding conveyance path, a first folding roller pair, a first folding guide, and a conveyance roller. The first folding roller pair is composed of a first roller and a second roller forming a first folding nip by being brought into pressure contact with an upstream side of the first roller. The first folding guide is movable between a folding position at which it approaches the first folding nip, guiding a to-be-folded part of a sheet to the first folding nip, and a retracted position at which it is away from the first folding nip. The conveyance roller forms, together with the second roller, a first assist roller pair that conveys the sheet along the sheet conveyance path. The first folding guide has a pivot fulcrum on a downstream side relative to the first folding nip in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: A control portion makes a recording head perform flushing processing every time a flushing area that does not overlap a recording medium faces the recording head but makes the recording head perform no flushing processing when a flushing area that at least in a part of it overlaps a recording medium faces the recording head. The longer a non-flashing period between the previous and present sessions of flushing processing, the larger the control portion makes the amount of ink ejected by each of nozzles in the present session of flushing processing.

Abstract: A developer includes a toner containing toner particles and a carrier containing carrier particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive particles include first silica particles and spacer particles. The first silica particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and no greater than 30 nm. The spacer particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 32 nm and no greater than 145 nm. The spacer particles in the toner particles have a coverage ratio of at least 2.0% by area and no greater than 40.0% by area. The carrier particles each include a carrier mother particle and strontium titanate particles attached to a surface of the carrier mother particle.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a first rotary member, a second rotary member, a pressing mechanism, and a heat-levelling member. The second rotary member is formed in a reverse-camber shape. The pressing mechanism can form a fixing nip and can reduce the pressing force between the first and second rotary members. The heat-levelling member, in a reduced-pressure state where the pressing force is lower than the fixing nip pressure, stays in contact with a part of the outer circumferential surface of the second rotary member elsewhere than the fixing nip, over the entire range in the rotation axis direction, to equalize the surface temperature of the second rotary member and, in a state where the pressing force is equal to or higher than the fixing nip pressure, stays away from the outer circumferential surface.

Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a first tank, a second tank and a communicating passage. The first tank stores a first liquid containing a volatile component and supplies the first liquid to an inkjet head. The second tank has a vent hole leading to an atmosphere and stores a second liquid containing the volatile component. The communicating passage communicates a space above a liquid level in the first tank with a space above a liquid level in the second tank.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus connected to a user terminal includes: an apparatus side connecting part; a connection detecting part; an apparatus side mode switching part; and an apparatus side mode setting part. The apparatus side connecting part connects to the user terminal and outputs connection information. The connection detecting part detects whether or not the apparatus side connecting part is connected to the user terminal based on the connection information and outputs detection information. The apparatus side mode switching part outputs, based on the detection information, mode information indicating a mode to which a consumption amount of a resource consumed by the image forming apparatus is allocated. The apparatus side mode setting part sets, based on the mode information, an energy saving mode in which the consumption amount is reduced as compared with the consumption amount when the apparatus side connecting part and the user terminal are connected.

Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The DFE system also includes a display device connectivity manager to manage connections with display devices using display connectivity modules and display connectivity APIs. The DFE system also includes a storage connectivity manager to manage data storage and storage devices using storage connectivity modules and storage connectivity APIs.

Abstract: A data association system includes a POST connector which collects data maintained in an information system a pipeline which stores the data collected by the POST connector; and a pipeline orchestrator which controls anonymization of the data stored by the pipeline. the data association system is characterized in that the pipeline executes anonymization processing of anonymizing the data, the POST connector and the pipeline store data before being anonymized by the anonymization processing, and the pipeline orchestrator instructs, after execution of the anonymization processing, the POST connector and the pipeline to delete the data before being anonymized.

Abstract: A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The DFE system also includes a display device connectivity manager to manage connections with display devices using display connectivity modules and display connectivity APIs. The DFE system also includes a storage connectivity manager to manage data storage and storage devices using storage connectivity modules and storage connectivity APIs.