Patents Assigned to Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
  • Patent number: 8885184
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for wrapping a job ticket for a print job within a job ticket defined according to another language. One embodiment is a system comprising a client operable to acquire print data for a print job, and a job ticket manager. The job ticket manager is operable to generate a first job ticket that is defined according to a first language, and to wrap a second job ticket defined according to a second language within the first job ticket. The client is further operable to transmit the print data and the first job ticket to a server operable to process job tickets defined according to the first language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Claudia Alimpich, Dennis M. Carney, Reinhard H. Hohensee, Harry R. Lewis, David E. Stone
  • Patent number: 8848222
    Abstract: A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job data stream, determining if the print job data stream comprises a secure print job, and inserting a control operator to designate a secure print job data stream if the print job data stream comprises a secure print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: David Ward, Randell Rivadeneira
  • Patent number: 8836986
    Abstract: A print controller and associated methods of purging a print data path are disclosed. A print controller comprises a job storage system that receives and stores print jobs, and a print data path, which includes components operable to process print jobs, from the job storage system to print engines. The control system receives registrations from the components for flush job messages, flush path messages, or both. The control system receives a request to purge the print data path, and identifies print jobs being processed in the print data path. The control system transmits flush job messages to the components registering for the flush job messages for each print job instructing the components to purge data for the print jobs. The control system also transmits a flush path message to the components registering for the flush path messages instructing the components to purge data for the print jobs being handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Dennis M. Carney, Allan A. Hren, Charles D. Johnson, Lisa A. Morgan
  • Patent number: 8833925
    Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein provide for drying of wet colorants applied to a print media utilizing a substantially optically transparent drum that includes a radiant energy source. In one embodiment, a printer includes a hollow drum and a radiating energy source inside of the hollow drum. The energy source radiates energy for drying a wet colorant applied to a print media. The hollow drum surrounds the energy source and is substantially transparent to the radiated energy of the energy source. The drum includes a peripheral surface that contacts the print media as the print media transits along a print path. The drum conductively heats the print media for drying the wet colorant, and permits the radiated energy of the energy source to dry the wet colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Timothy G. Bradley
  • Patent number: 8820880
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving image data from one or more image readers and analyzing the image data to locate and classify artifacts on the medium caused by defective print engine nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Kartheek Chandu, Larry M. Ernst, Mikel J. Stanich, Sreenath Rao Vantaram
  • Patent number: 8817296
    Abstract: Printing systems and associated methods of generating banner pages for print jobs are disclosed. A printing system in one embodiment includes a banner page system for generating the banner pages. The banner page system includes a memory that stores content representing selectable banner messages for banner pages. The banner page system further includes a page generator that receives print jobs. For each of the print jobs, the page generator selects a banner message from the stored content per print job based on criteria defined in the printing system, and generates a banner page that includes the selected banner message. Because the banner messages are selected on a per print job basis, the banner page for each print job is customized for that print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Robert Jessen, Kristin Reischel
  • Patent number: 8817331
    Abstract: Methods and systems for transcoding continuous tone Run Length Limited (RLL) encoded datastreams for including information for identifying halftone screens within the datastream are disclosed. Sequential packets comprising headers and bitmap data are identified within the datastream. Halftone screens associated with bitmap data within the packets are identified and merged into the packets to generate a modified RLL output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Michael J. Holley
  • Patent number: 8807691
    Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a print engine including two or more print heads to generate an alignment chart and an alignment system. The alignment system receives the alignment chart and computes a magnitude of misalignment between the print heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Kartheek Chandu, Mikel J. Stanich, Larry M. Ernst, Sreenath Rao Vantaram, Chai Wah Wu
  • Patent number: 8797562
    Abstract: A print controller and associated methods of performing recovery processes responsive to a redrive event (i.e., print setting changes/hardware errors) are disclosed. A print controller in one embodiment comprises a job storage system that receives and stores print jobs from host systems, and a print data path from the job storage system to one or more print engines. The print data path includes components operable to process print jobs for imaging on the print engine. The print controller further comprises a redrive system that detects a redrive event, and identifies the print job interrupted by the redrive event. The redrive system also identifies a target page of the identified print job from which to restart the print job, and purges the identified print job from the print data path (along with other print jobs). The redrive system then reschedules the identified print job for processing followed by other eligible jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Dennis M. Carney, Allan A. Hren, Charles D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8792123
    Abstract: A manufacturing system is disclosed. The manufacturing system may include a personalization mechanism to evaluate personalization information relating to mailpieces, wherein the mailpieces include mail containers and mail content components. The manufacturing system may further include a matching mechanism to compare the containers with their corresponding content components using unique verification codes assigned to each of the containers and content components, wherein the unique verification codes are assigned based on the evaluated personalization information, and a production machine to produce personalized containers and their corresponding content components based on comparison results of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Dwight Ross Palmer, Scott Matthew Jones, Brian Joseph Hogan
  • Patent number: 8786899
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using conversion arrays to transform image in print jobs to different color depths. In one embodiment, the system stores a plurality of conversion arrays for converting images of print jobs encoded according to a page description language. The system receives a print job encoded according to the page description language, locates an image in the encoded print job, and identifies an existing color depth of the image, a pel color range, and a desired output color depth for the image. The system further selects a conversion array from the memory based on at least one of the existing color depth of the image, the pel color range, and the desired output color depth, and converts the image from the existing color depth of the image to the desired output color depth using the conversion array. The system further transmits the converted image for printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Randell Rivadeneira
  • Patent number: 8786877
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modification of post-print instructions. The system includes a data center and a post-printing system. The data center is operable to receive a first print job that includes a plurality of documents and a first post-print instruction defining how the documents are processed after printing. The data center is also operable to receive a request that one or more documents in the print job be processed according to a second post-print instruction, and to extract the document(s) from the print job to generate a second print job. The second print job includes the extracted document(s) and the second post-print instruction defining how the document(s) are processed after printing. The post-printing system is operable to process the remaining documents of the first print job according to the first post-print instruction, and to process the document(s) of the second print job according to the second post-print instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Carl Dennison, Ned Otey, Adam A. Swartz, Brent Winters
  • Patent number: 8767258
    Abstract: Force K processing is presented to replace gray color values of input data with only levels of black ink/toner when color management is not specified in the print job. A system converts input data of a print job to a CMYK color space of a printer by processing a lookup table of color values for the color space of the input data based on a detected color space of the input data to identify gray color values of the lookup table. The system also determines that these gray color values produce an output in the CMYK color space of the printer that includes one or more of cyan, magenta, and yellow color components. The system replaces the gray color values with black color values and corresponds the black color values of the lookup table with gray color values of the input data for conversion of the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Vladimir V. Shestak, Larry M. Ernst, Hong Li, Jason C. Walp
  • Patent number: 8665476
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for including sheet images of pre-printed inserts in a print preview for a print job. The system is operable to receive a print job, to receive a request for a print preview of the print job, and to rasterize logical pages of the print job to generate sheet images. The system is further operable to identify inserts to be integrated with printed versions of the sheet images of the logical pages, and to include sheet images of the inserts with the sheet images of the logical pages for the print preview.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Stephen G. Price, Randell Rivadeneira, David E. Stone
  • Patent number: 8593693
    Abstract: Methods and systems herein provide for CMYK color conversion of input image data while preserving K color values during the conversion process. A color management module is operable to convert input image data from one color space to a CMYK color space. For example, the color management module may convert the image data of one device operating in a CMYK color space to a CMYK color space of another device. In doing so, the color management module preserves or maintains the K color values of the input image data during the CMYK to CMYK color conversion. The color management module may implement such by modifying input and output ICC profiles and interpolating the perceptual lightness values of the input ICC profile within the output lookup table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Yue Qiao, Nenad Rijavee, Vladimir V. Shestak
  • Patent number: 8547609
    Abstract: Methods and systems herein provide for the color conversion of image data. Such color conversion includes receiving the image data from an input imaging device and generating a CMYK to CIELab model for conversion of the image data to a color gamut of an output imaging device. From there, a table of CMYK color values and corresponding CIELab color values is generated based on the model. The color conversion then includes mapping the CIELab color values of the image data to a CIELab color gamut of the output imaging device such as a printer. The color conversion also includes comparing the mapped CIELab color values to the CIELab color values of the table to retrieve corresponding CMYK color values and processing the retrieved CMYK color values (e.g., via multidimensional optimization) to convert the CIELab color values of the image data to the CIELab color values of the output imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Yue Qiao
  • Patent number: 8542381
    Abstract: A print controller and associated methods of purging a print data path are disclosed. A print controller comprises a job storage system that receives and stores print jobs, and a print data path, which includes components operable to process print jobs, from the job storage system to print engines. The control system receives registrations from the components for flush job messages, flush path messages, or both. The control system receives a request to purge the print data path, and identifies print jobs being processed in the print data path. The control system transmits flush job messages to the components registering for the flush job messages for each print job instructing the components to purge data for the print jobs. The control system also transmits a flush path message to the components registering for the flush path messages instructing the components to purge data for the print jobs being handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Dennis M. Carney, Allan A. Hren, Charles D. Johnson, Lisa A. Morgan
  • Patent number: 8542418
    Abstract: The systems and methods presented herein provide for calibrating a print engine of a printing system. The printing system prints image data on a print medium and scans the printed image data. Color values of the scanned image data are then measured and various tints of color values and their transition locations are identified. A calibration module estimates the original optical densities of the identified color value tints and generates a target optical density for each of the identified color value tints using the estimated original optical densities to determine print irregularities in the color values of the scanned image data. The calibration module then generates a halftone screen based on the mean optical densities and applies the generated halftone screen to the print engine to calibrate the print engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Kartheek Chandu, Larry M. Ernst, Sreenath R. Vantaram, Mikel J. Stanich
  • Patent number: 8538199
    Abstract: Non integer scaling of images to reduce artifacts is presented herein. One embodiment includes determining a scaling resolution based on a pixel resolution of the image and a pixel resolution of an output device (i.e., factors of the scaling resolution). The image is converted to the scaling resolution to change (e.g., increase) the pixels of the image by the first factor. A grid is generated to scale the converted image. The grid has a number of sections defined according to the second factor times the pixel resolution of an output device. The converted image is sectioned according to the grid. Each section of the grid includes an integer number of pixels of the converted image. The color values of the pixels of the converted image are averaged within each section of the grid to compute a single color value for each section of the grid and scale the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Productions Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Larry M. Ernst, Nenad Rijavec, Natalie Dawn Ross, Mikel J. Stanich, John T. Varga
  • Patent number: 8526032
    Abstract: Concurrent IPDS and non-IPDS print processing is provided. Because an IPDS print session may not usually be interrupted, non-IPDS print data is received through a separate, non-IPDS channel in the printer control unit. The non-IPDS data is rasterized (“ripped”) using spare processing cycles and stored in a rip spool. At an appropriate time, such as when fully rasterized, an interrupt request may be submitted to the IPDS host then controlling the printer. When the IPDS host relinquishes control of the printer, such as when the IPDS print job has been completed, the rasterized non-IPDS print data may be de-spooled to the print engine and printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Dennis M. Carney, Allan A. Hren