Abstract: Systems and methods for adapting a service provided based on a local taxonomy defining a local community of individuals are disclosed. The systems and methods involve a close proximity protocol used to detect and/or communicate with various mobile devices located within a certain range of a site location, and include a device that requests information from the mobile devices and a device that provides a service to the one or more users within range of the service-providing device. A local taxonomy is generated and evolved based on the dynamics of the local community of individuals (i.e. as individuals enter and exit the range of the system), and the service(s) provided is adapted as the local taxonomy changes.

Abstract: A display device includes a display unit and a display controller. The display unit displays a screen including a displayed item. When the displayed item is moved toward a designated position on the screen, when designation of the moving is terminated in a state where the displayed item and the designated position are separated by a distance longer than a predetermined distance, the display controller continuously displays the screen until the displayed item and the designated position at a time of terminating the designation come within the predetermined distance, or displays a setting screen about setting based on an operation by an operator.

Abstract: Methods, Apparatus, Devices and Systems herein load a firing distance into a distance counter of a printing device. The firing distance is the distance from the current position of a printhead of the printing device to a marking location on a substrate and the distance is calculated based on an angular encoder operatively associated with a roller used to transport a marking media to the printhead for marking. These devices and methods count the firing distance in angular distance increments as a function of the encoder angular position to correct for encoder roller runout using the distance counter, based on relative movement of the substrate and printhead. When the distance counter reaches the last discrete distance increment corrected for encoder roller runout of the firing distance, these devices and methods load the fractional remaining distance of the firing distance into a time counter of the printing device.

Abstract: A transporting member includes a rotating shaft and plural helical blades that helically extend around the rotating shaft and that transport a transport object in a direction of the rotating shaft as the rotating shaft rotates, each helical blade including a downstream side surface at a downstream side in a transporting direction and an upstream side surface at a side opposite to the downstream side surface. A portion of at least one of the helical blades has a gap that enables the transport object to move in the direction of the rotating shaft, and the at least one of the helical blades includes an upstream section that extends upstream in a rotating-shaft rotation direction, in which the rotating shaft rotates, from the gap. The upstream section includes a portion in which an inclination angle of the downstream side surface is less than an inclination angle of the upstream side surface.

Abstract: A printer includes a drying unit that has a vacuum plenum and a drying belt with an exterior surface along which the media is transported through the drying unit. The drying belt has a plurality of holes extending through the drying belt, each hole in the plurality of holes having a diameter that is less than 300 microns. The drying unit further includes a heater configured to heat the media transported through the drying unit and a vacuum blower operably connected to the vacuum plenum. The vacuum blower is configured to generate a negative pressure in the vacuum plenum that holds the media on the exterior surface of the drying belt by the negative pressure acting through the plurality of holes without producing temperature differentials in the media on the belt that result in noticeable image quality defects.

Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive substrate, an elastic layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer disposed on the elastic layer. Regarding the surface of the surface layer, in the axial direction, the ratio of the mean spacing of profile irregularities Sm to the ten-point mean roughness Rz and the reduced peak height Spk respectively satisfy 15?Sm/Rz?35 and Spk?5 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing: a cellulose acetate in which the weight average polymerization degree is 120-330 and the degree of substitution of an acetyl group is 2.10-2.60; a (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1000-30000; and a plasticizer.

Abstract: An information processing system includes: a delivery unit that delivers consumable items to plural machines; a determination unit that determines a specific organization, which is capable of offering a specific consumable item, from plural organizations in accordance with inventory information when the delivery unit is suspended, the inventory information indicating an inventory of the consumable items stored in each of the organizations having a certain scale and serving as a unit managing the plural machines; and a display control unit that makes control to display the determined specific organization as a place where the specific consumable item is stored.

Abstract: A system enables digital appliances to be monitored by a device monitoring application. The system includes a plurality of digital appliances, a device monitoring application service configured to communicate with the plurality of digital appliances, and a device regulation/support site. The device regulation/support site is configured to provision the digital appliances for communication with the device monitoring application in response to an authentication token received from one of the digital appliances through the device monitoring application service corresponding to an authentication token stored in a database at the device regulation/support site.

Abstract: A cap is positioned to contact a printhead when the printhead is not ejecting liquid ink. The cap and the printhead create a sealed space adjacent printhead nozzles when contacting each other. A heated evaporator is connected to the cap and is adapted to evaporate an ink-compatible liquid to form a water and/or solvent vapor and supply the water and/or solvent vapor to the sealed space to protect the liquid ink in the nozzles. An insulator thermally insulates the heated evaporator from the printhead. This prevents the ink in the nozzles from drying and prevents the nozzles from clogging.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printing method for forming a three dimensional article. The method includes providing a first 3D structural material; depositing a metal nanoparticle ink composition on a surface of the first 3D structural material; annealing the metal nanoparticle ink composition at a temperature of between 60° C. and 100° C. to form the conductive article on the first 3D structural material; and optionally forming a second 3D structural material over the conductive article.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that fixes an image to a recording medium that is transported by applying heat; a guide member including a first guide surface that guides the recording medium to which the image has been fixed by the fixing device, a second guide surface that is opposite to the first guide surface and that guides the recording medium that is transported backward after being guided by the first guide surface, and a communicating portion that enables air to flow between the first guide surface and the second guide surface; and plural suction members that cool the recording medium guided by the first guide surface by sucking air in a direction toward the second guide surface of the guide member, the suction members being arranged in a transporting direction in which the recording medium is transported.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses methods and systems for intelligent copying of bound documents. The method includes receiving a selection of copying a bound document via a user interface. The user interface is presented to the user to input whether a starting page of the bound document for copying is a left-side page or a right-side page. Then, multiple pages of the bound document are scanned to generate corresponding scanned images. Finally, the generated scanned images are arranged in the same order as per the arrangement of pages in the original bound document.

Abstract: A method for creating a consolidated work-flow on a multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the method is executed by a processor and includes monitoring user interactions with the MFD, determining that an interaction threshold is exceeded, creating the consolidated work-flow for a particular user interaction with the MFD, and creating a short-cut associated with the consolidated work-flow, wherein the short-cut is to be displayed on a user interface (UI) of the MFD, wherein the consolidated work-flow is executed when the short-cut is selected.

Abstract: A surface treatment system includes a holder configured to secure an object within the holder and a surface treatment device that is configured to treat a surface of the object within the holder with two types of surface treatments. The device is capable of producing a plasma or a flame at its nozzle for surface treatment. By controlling the materials supplied to the device and the way in which is operated, either a flame or plasma is produced. Thus, the surface treatment system is capable of treating a wide range of materials for printing by a direct-to-object printer.

Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that charges an electrophotographic photoconductor by a contact charging method and includes a conductive substrate, an elastic layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer that is provided on the elastic layer and contains irregularities-forming particles that have a number particle size distribution with two or more maximum values when observed, from a surface of the surface layer, and a voltage application unit that applies, to the charging member, an AC voltage superimposed on a DC voltage.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a first keyword obtained by combining a plurality of words, an extraction unit that extracts a text string indicating a value corresponding to the first keyword, from a result of text recognition on a document image, a detection unit that detects an identical or similar word, as a reference word being a reference of a combination, from a plurality of words included in the first keyword and a second keyword in response to reception of an instruction to newly register the second keyword having a meaning which is not identical but similar to a meaning of the first keyword, and an output unit that outputs a new third keyword obtained by combining the reference word and at least one of a first target word or a second target word while maintaining a context with the reference word, the first target word being connected before or after the reference word in the first keyword, and being a target of a combination, the second target word being conn

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a transmission request for image data from an image processing apparatus to which a user provides an instruction to execute image processing, an acquisition unit that acquires a security policy corresponding to attribute information related to an attribute of the image processing apparatus in a case where the reception unit receives the transmission request, and a control unit that performs control for transmitting the image data to the image processing apparatus and executing the image processing in the image processing apparatus in accordance with the security policy acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoating layer, and a photosensitive layer. The undercoating layer that is provided on the conductive substrate and includes a binder resin and a charge transporting material. The binder resin includes a resin obtained by polymerizing a diallyl phthalate compound. The photosensitive layer that is provided on the undercoating layer.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a diffuse reflection image of an object surface and a specular reflection image of the object surface, and a reproduction unit that reproduces the object surface such that illumination color is darker as saturation of the diffuse reflection image or a value representing the saturation is higher than of the specular reflection image, by using the diffuse reflection image and the specular reflection image.