Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit, a contact unit, and a constant-current controller. The transfer unit nips a recording medium using an image retaining unit and a transfer member and generates a transfer electric field in a transfer region therebetween so as to electrostatically transfer the image onto the recording medium. The contact unit is provided upstream and downstream of the transfer region in a recording-medium transport direction and comes into contact with the recording medium while the recording medium passes through the transfer region, so as to function as an electrode leading to a ground. The constant-current controller performs constant-current control on a transfer current to be fed to the transfer region by using a transfer voltage when the recording medium is a low-resistance recording medium having a predetermined resistance value or lower or having an electrically-conductive layer along a medium base surface.

Abstract: A sustainable material suitable for three-dimensional printing is disclosed. The sustainable material comprises a resin derived from a bio-based diacid monomer and a bio-based glycol monomer. The resulting sustainable material provides a much more robust 3-D printing material with different properties than conventional materials.

Abstract: An image forming instruction device includes a selector that selects either a setting for borderless printing or a setting for non-borderless printing based on print data. In a further modification of the invention, the selector may select either the setting for borderless printing or the setting for non-borderless printing based on an image on an outer edge of the print data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquirer that acquires information indicating a request from a user, and a controller that causes, in response to the request, a provider to provide first information that does not depend on a device or second information that depends on the device.

Abstract: The present teachings describe a printhead assembly. The printhead assembly includes a first plate and a second plate stacked together. The printhead assembly includes a first adhesive between the first plate and the second plate for bonding the plates together. The printhead assembly includes a second adhesive surrounding an outer edge of the first adhesive wherein the second adhesive has an oxygen migration rate lower than an oxygen migration rate of the first adhesive. An oxygen sensitive component is contained within the outer edge of the first adhesive.

Abstract: A pallet includes at least one top board on which a load is to be placed and at least one substantially plate-shaped stringer board that is provided independently of the top board and that has at least one non-contact portion, which is not in contact with the top board in a region between the stringer board and the top board, the stringer board being in contact with the top board in a vertical direction.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that moves and controls a display of a character image in a virtual space, in accordance with a movement of a user in a real space, and an awarding unit that awards points to the user in a case in which the character image is made to overlap, in the virtual space, an other character image of an other user.

Abstract: A belt-type transport device includes a belt, a pressure unit, a nip forming unit, a belt stretching roller, an inclination controller, a contact unit, and a support unit. The belt is an endless belt, has an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface, and is to be rotated. The pressure unit is in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the belt. The nip forming unit presses the belt against the pressure unit so as to form a nip through which a recording medium is to be transported. The belt stretching roller is disposed inside the belt and stretches the belt. The inclination controller controls inclination of the belt stretching roller. The contact unit is provided along a width direction of the belt and is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the belt. The support unit supports the contact unit such that the contact unit is able to follow inclination of the belt which is changed due to the inclination of the belt stretching roller.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives information indicative of a priority of communication designated by a user who uses a communication line available to plural users and information indicative of a bandwidth of a priority target designated by the user; and an allocated bandwidth deciding unit that decides an allocated bandwidth allocated to the user on a basis of evaluation of the priority and the bandwidth of the priority target.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an utterance content of a speaker, a processing structure of a work in which the speaker utters, the work including plural processing units, and a processing unit in execution in the processing structure; an extraction unit configured to extract a related document including a sentence whose similarity to the utterance content of the speaker received by the receiver is equal to or higher than a threshold, from among related documents that are associated in advance with at least one processing unit including the processing unit in execution received by the receiver; and a setting unit configured to set a processing unit from which the extraction unit extracts a related document next, according to the processing structure received by the receiver.

Abstract: A composition for use in 3D printing includes an unsaturated polyester resin including an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, a first diol monomer and a second diol monomer.

Abstract: A powder accommodating device includes: an accommodating portion that has an opening at one end, is installed horizontally to accommodate powder, and transports the powder toward the opening by rotation; a lid portion that has a cylindrical inner wall surface, covers the opening and is held in a non-rotational state; and an agitation portion including: a cylindrical portion that is disposed in the lid portion, communicates with the opening, and rotates integrally with the accommodating portion; and plural agitation rods that each have a rod shape protruding from the cylindrical portion in a rotation axis direction in a direction away from the cylindrical portion and circulate along the inner wall surface to agitate the powder in the hollow portion, wherein at least some of the plural agitation rods are connected to each other via a beam provided at a position out of the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A cleaning blade includes a contact part coming into contact with a member to be cleaned, the contact part being configurated by a member containing polyurethane rubber produced by polymerizing at least a polyol component, which contains over 50 mol % and 75 mol % or less of 1,4-butanediol relative to the entire polyol components, with a polyisocyanate component. The ratio (M100/Re) of 100% modulus (M100 [MPa]) to rebound resilience coefficient (Re [%]) is 0.25 or more. The rebound resilience coefficient (Re [%]) is 25% or more.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, at least one detector, and a display controller. The display displays an image of an object three-dimensionally. The at least one detector detects a physical quantity as a detection target. The display controller makes a change to a specific part of the object displayed on the display in accordance with an output from the at least one detector.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate and one or more electronic components positioned on the substrate. A surface layer is positioned on the electronic components, the surface layer comprising a polymer binder and a substituted or unsubstituted hexahydrotriazine compound.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer unit that holds an image to be transferred onto a recording medium, a base image formation unit that forms a planar base image onto the intermediate transfer unit by using an opaque base image forming agent, the base image being brought into contact with and disposed onto an entire surface of the recording medium or a partial region of the surface of the recording medium, a transparent image formation unit that forms a transparent image onto the intermediate transfer unit by using a transparent image forming agent, a first control unit that performs control for transferring a monochromatic or polychromatic image including the base image formed on the intermediate transfer unit by the base image formation unit onto the recording medium, a second control unit that performs control for superposing a monochromatic or polychromatic image including the base image formed by the base image formation unit onto the transparent image formed on the intermediate

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming component that forms an image on a recording medium by using a white color material and a color material other than the white color material, and a controller that controls a color material amount of the white color material to differ depending on a position where an image that uses the white color material is formed in order of formation of images that use respective color materials in the image forming component.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that controls a process according to a change amount of a deformable display from a reference position and changes the reference position. In a further modification of the invention, the controller may change the reference position based on the change amount of the display from the reference position at a time at which the display starts to display.

Abstract: A method operates a three-dimensional object printer for production of cylindrical-shaped objects. The method uses a controller to operate an actuator operatively connected to a cylindrical member to rotate the cylindrical member within at least two supports, operate at least two printheads supplied with different materials to form portions of layers on the rotating cylindrical member with the different materials supplied to the at least two printheads, and operate at least one other actuator operatively connected to the at least two printheads and a curing device to move each of the printheads and the curing device independently of one another in a bidirectional radial direction with reference to a center of the rotating cylindrical member. This operation enables the curing device to be positioned to modify the layers formed on the rotating cylindrical member while the cylindrical member is rotating within the at least two supports.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. Assume that a user has signed into a first cloud service of operation source. In a case where the user signs in to a second cloud service of operation destination, and in a case where an account registered in the second cloud service is permitted to be cooperated with another account, the information processing apparatus allows the user to sign in to the second cloud service.