Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting nip width based on a scanned nip print image on ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive media in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a signal to generate a nip print, automatically inserting a sheet of UV-sensitive media into a fuser nip in the image production device, pausing the sheet of UV-sensitive media in the fuser nip for a predetermined time period, illuminating the UV-sensitive media with ultraviolet light to generate a nip print, scanning the generated nip print, determining if a nip width adjustment is required based on the scanned nip print, and if it is determined that a nip width adjustment is required based on the scanned nip print, adjusting the nip width using a nip width adjustment device.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit package, a printed circuit board, a semiconductor apparatus, and a power supply wiring structure that allow attainment of stable power source and ground wiring without causing resonance even in a high-frequency bandwidth are provided. In an interior portion of the package, a power source wiring and a ground wiring constitute a pair wiring structure in which the power source wiring and the ground wiring are juxtaposed at a predetermined interval so as to establish electromagnetic coupling therebetween. A plurality of pair wiring structures are combined in such a manner that, when viewed in a section perpendicular to a wiring extending direction, the pair wiring assembly assumes a staggered (checkered) configuration. It is preferable that, each of the silicon chip and the printed circuit board, like the package, has pair wiring structures disposed inside.

Abstract: A nanoscale pigment particle composition includes an organic benzimidazolone pigment, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound, wherein the benzimidazolone pigment associates non-covalently with the sterically bulky stabilizer compound that is an alkylated derivative of an aromatic acid; and the presence of the associated stabilizer limits the extent of particle growth and aggregation, to afford nanoscale pigment particles.

Abstract: One exemplary method embodiment herein can run an operating system on a processor and executes one or more applications on the operating system (sometimes simultaneously) that causes different input requests to be dynamically displayed on a visual display. If more than one application is being executed at a time, only one currently selected application can be available for user input at a time. These input requests can dynamically change depending upon the current state of the currently selected application. The method controls the keys with the operating system to dynamically illuminate only valid keys that correspond to input requests of the currently selected application being currently displayed on the visual display.

Abstract: A method suited to the detection and correction of red-eyes includes assigning a probability to pixels of a digital image of the pixel being in a red-eye, the probability being a function of a color of the pixel. Optionally, generally circular regions in the image of contiguous pixels which satisfy at least one test for a red-eye are identified. The test may include determining a size or shape of the region or an extent of overlap with a region comprising pixels having at least a threshold probability of being in a red-eye. For each of a plurality of the pixels, such as simply those in identified regions, or for all pixels or a larger group of the pixels, a color correction for the pixel is determined. The correction is a function of the assigned probability that the pixel is within a red-eye and a color of the pixel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting nip width based on a scanned nip print in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include automatically inserting a sheet of media into a fuser nip in the image production device upon receiving a signal from a user interface, the fuser nip being an intersection of the fuser roll and the pressure roll, generating a nip print in the fuser nip, the nip print being an image created from the pressure between the fuser roll and the pressure roll, scanning the nip print, determining if a nip width adjustment is required based on the scanned nip print, the nip width being the distance of an arc length created by an intersection of the fuser roll and the pressure roll, and if it is determined that a nip width adjustment is required based on the scanned nip print, adjusting the nip width.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a feed portion that is fed with toner from above; a transport path that includes an inlet through which the toner fed to the feed portion enters, that allows the toner to be transported therethrough, and that is in a cylindrical shape; and a transporting member including: a rotary shaft provided to extend in the feed portion and the transport path; and a moving portion pressing toner with rotation of the rotary shaft to move the toner, and that transports along the transport path the toner fed to the feed portion, a part of the rotary shaft of the transporting member located in the transport path having a larger diameter than a part of the rotary shaft located in the feed portion.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a fixing device includes a laser beam irradiation unit and a conveying unit. The laser beam irradiation unit includes a plurality of laser beam sources and emits a plurality of laser beams to a surface of a recording medium. The conveying unit conveys the recording medium and/or the laser beam irradiation unit so that irradiated regions irradiated with the laser beams are moved in a given direction. When the plurality of laser beams is emitted to a toner image to fix the toner image, the plurality of laser beams satisfies conditions (A) and (B). The condition (A) is that the plurality of laser beams has substantially the same beam power and substantially the same width. The condition (B) is that the plurality of laser beams is independently emitted to the toner image.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes an image-forming member assembly including a photosensitive member, a developing unit, and a rotating unit; a driving unit; a positioning member having a positioning hole in which a shaft of the photosensitive member is rotatably supported and positioned; and a support member having a support hole that has a guide side to guide a rotating shaft of the rotating unit and supports the rotating shaft in a direction toward and away from the positioning hole. When a force received by the rotating shaft while the driving unit drives the rotating unit is divided into a first component force along the guide side and a second component force orthogonal to the guide side, the first component force has a direction in which a contact force of the shaft of the photosensitive member against an edge of the positioning hole is increased.

Abstract: A charger includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that has a mesh pattern and is arranged on a side closer to a photoconductor than the first electrode; a cleaner that moves along the second electrode to clean the second electrode by a brush thereof. The second electrode has the mesh pattern successively arranged in a certain direction, and a peripheral region of the mesh pattern of the second electrode has been changed to prevent catching of the brush of the cleaner.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, an information processing apparatus includes a process instruction receiving module, a storage module, and a process state output module. The storage module receives a process instruction from a user. The storage module stores the process instruction and language attribute information to associate with each other, the language attribute information designating a language for outputting a process state of the process instruction. The process state output module outputs information of the process state in the language designated by the language attribute information associated with the process instruction.

Abstract: The light-emitting device includes: a self-scanning light-emitting element array including: light-emitting elements; memory elements; and switch elements; and a light-up controller supplying a transfer signal setting ON of the switch elements, a memory signal causing, in a case where a switch element corresponding to a light-emitting element forming a group is set at the ON state, a corresponding memory element to be temporarily changed from OFF to ON if the light-emitting element is to light up, and the corresponding memory element to be kept in OFF if the light-emitting element is not to light up, and then causing the memory element having been temporarily changed to the ON state to be temporarily set at ON again, and a light-up signal for each group, the light-up signal causing a light-emitting element to be set at ON after causing a memory element to be set at ON.

Abstract: A system of assigning operators to cells in a document production environment may include a computing device and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device. The computer-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions for identifying a first plurality of cell operators, where each cell operator is associated with one or more skills, identifying a cell to be staffed, wherein the cell is associated with one or more functions, identifying, from the first plurality of cell operators, a subset of cell operators comprising a group of cell operators who collectively possess the skills necessary to perform the one or more functions associated with the cell, selecting, from the subset, a second plurality of cell operators based on at least one relationship amongst the second plurality of cell operators, and assigning the second plurality of cell operators to the cell.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds having a formula of: R1—CONH—R6—CONH—C36H64+n—CONH—R6—CONH—R3, R1—NHCO—R6—NHCO—C36H64+n—NHCO—R6—NHCO—R3, R1—CONH—R6—NHCO—C36H64+n—CONH—R6—NHCO—R3, R1—NHCO—R6—CONH—C36H64+n—NHCO—R6—CONH—R3, R1—CONH—R4—CONH—C36H64+n—CONH—R5—CONH—R3, R1—CONH—R4—NHCO—C36H64+n—CONH—R5—NHCO—R3, R1—NHCO—R4—CONH—C36H64+n—NHCO—R5—CONH—R3, R1—NHCO—R4—NHCO—C36H64+n—CONH—R5—CONH—R3, or R1—CONH—R4—CONH—C36H64+n—NHCO—R5—NHCO—R3, wherein n is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10, R6 is the same or different cyclic group having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 are the same or different and comprise an alkylene having from 1 to about 200 carbon atoms, and R1 and R3 are the same or different and comprise a straight chain or branched alkyl group having from about 3 carbon atoms to about 200 carbon atoms and one or both of R1 and R3 include at least one hydroxyl group substituent, and ink compositions including the compounds as an ink vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a recording medium containing a first image formed with a first recording material; and a second image comprising a first region formed with a second recording material having approximately the same light fastness as that of the first recording material, and a second region formed with a third recording material having higher light fastness than that of the first recording material, a color of the second region being a color corresponding to any stage of a process of discoloration of the first region.

Abstract: A process for preparing stabilized metal nanoparticles, the process comprising reacting a metal compound with a reducing agent in the presence of a stabilizer in a reaction mixture comprising the metal compound, the reducing agent, and the stabilizer, wherein the reaction mixture is substantially free of solvent, to form a plurality of metal-containing nanoparticles during the solvent-free reduction process with molecules of the stabilizer on the surface of the metal-containing nanoparticles.

Abstract: A package material includes cushioning materials and a covering member. The cushioning materials are assigned for three sides of an article to be packaged. Each of the cushioning materials has three projections each projecting outwardly toward three inner walls of the package box and coming into contact with the three inner walls of the package box. The covering member covers at least a portion of the article to be packaged, and supports the cushioning materials assigned for the three different sides of the article to be packaged. The covering member includes plural sets of three openings in which the three projections of the respective cushioning materials are inserted in a state where the cushioning materials are supported; and folded portions that are interposed between the three openings.

Abstract: An image reader includes: a bottom wall that faces a discharge table of a main body of an image forming apparatus, to which a printed sheet is discharged, with a space formed therebetween, the bottom wall forming a bottom surface of a housing that receives an optical system and including a concave portion recessed into the inside of the housing without including a convex portion protruding toward the outside of the housing in a contactable area having a possibility that the printed sheet comes into contact therewith when the printed sheet is discharged to the discharge table, the bottom wall including the convex portion protruding toward the outside of the housing in the other areas except for the contactable area.

Abstract: A color processor includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first and second multi-valued color signals respectively indicating in a multi-valued manner quantities of first and second color materials used for reproducing color with a specific hue, the second color material having a different density from the first color material; a generation unit that generates first and second binary color signals by performing dither processing, respectively with first and second dither matrices, for the first and second multi-valued color signals acquired by the acquisition unit, the second dither matrix having the same angle and the same number of lines as the first dither matrix and being used for forming halftone dots at positions different from positions of halftone dots formed by use of the first dither matrix; and an output unit that outputs to a print mechanism the first and second binary color signals generated by the generation unit.