Abstract: An improved development station extends the useful life of toner in the housing and increases the number of images developed by the developer supply. The improved development station includes a toner supply for providing toner to a developer sump; a mixing auger for uniformly blending and charging toner particles supplied by the toner supply into the developer material; a magnetic roller for receiving the developer material and bringing the developer material into contact with a photoreceptive member, and a variable developer material restrictor for variably restricting flow of developer material to vary the mechanical stress delivered to the developer material.

Abstract: In the case of being mounted with any cartridge other than a genuine cartridge, which accommodates a toner other than a genuine toner, a user can select as an operation mode other than that corresponding to a genuine toner, through a UI device 18, making a correction to the consumption of a developer by combining conditions to be changed, such as increasing or decreasing the degree of a change (gradient) in a set value of the toner density with respect to the consumption of a developer (m1 or m2); increasing or decreasing a limit value (m1 or m2); varying an initial value (consumption=0) (m3); no making a change in a set value according to the consumption (m4); and no making a change in a set value according to the consumption, for example, by varying an initial value (m5)

Abstract: A method for halftoning a gray scale image to generate a halftoned image uses a stochastic screen is designed to provide visually pleasing, blue noise dot profiles when thresholded at any gray level and wherein substantially all the threshold values corresponding to gray levels between gs1 and gs2 coincide with black positions in a constraining checkerboard pattern and substantially all the threshold values corresponding to gray levels between gs2 and gs3 coincide with white positions in the constraining checkerboard pattern.

Abstract: A thermally-conductive fluid ejector carriage device is used to dissipate heat from a thermal fluid ejector module in a fluid ejection device. The thermally-conductive fluid ejector carriage device is molded from a polymer, or a polymer material including at least one thermally-conductive filler material. The thermal fluid ejector module is brought into contact with the thermally-conducting polymer carriage to dissipate heat. The polymer can be a highly thermally-conductive polymer. A method of manufacturing the thermally-conductive polymer carriage includes molding the carriage at least partially from a polymer that includes thermally-conductive filler materials, and contacting the thermally-conducting polymer carriage with the fluid ejector module. A method for use of the thermally-conductive fluid ejector carriage device includes establishing a heat flow path from the fluid ejector module to ambient air through the thermally-conductive fluid ejector carriage device.

Abstract: There is provided a hologram reconstruction method including: onto an optical recording medium in which a hologram is recorded by simultaneously irradiating the Fourier transformed signal beam representing a digital data with a bright and dark image and removing a DC component and the Fourier transformed reference beam thereon, irradiating a first reference beam for reading out that is the same as the reference beam to generate a first diffracted light generated by the recorded hologram, and synthesizing a DC component of a predetermined phase with the generated first diffracted light to generate a first synthesized light; detecting an inverse Fourier transformed image of the first synthesized light to obtain first image data; irradiating a second reference beam for reading out that differs from the reference beam onto the hologram recorded on the optical recording medium to generate a second diffracted light from the recorded hologram, and synthesizing a DC component of a predetermined phase with the generat

Abstract: A method controlling toner age in a developer housing including: recording a latent image in a predefined image frame on an imaging surface; and generating a purge patch in an unused portion of the predefined image frame. Other features include generating an inline purge signal to initiate generating of the purge patch; recording the purge patch includes scaling the purge patch to fit in the unused portion of the predefined image frame; activating or inactivating the generating of the purge patch based upon an amount of unused portion of the image frame.

Abstract: A method for preparation of an iodoalkylalkoxysilane includes contacting a haloalkylmethoxysilane with an alcohol in the presence of a protic acid to form a haloalkylalkoxysilane. The haloalkylalkoxysilane is contacted with an iodide to form the iodoalkylalkoxysilane. The iodoalkylalkoxysilane can be used as a chemical intermediate in the preparation of functional aryl amine molecules which have application in the formation of thin films for photoreceptors.

Abstract: A printing system configured by connecting, over a network, a printing request instruction terminal for making a printing request including reference information that indicates a storage location of the paper original data, a server which accepts the printing request from the printing request instruction terminal, designates a printer as a printing destination according to the printing request and makes a printing instruction to that printer, and multiple printers which execute printing according to the printing instruction from the server, wherein the server comprises: an examination unit which, when receives the printing request from the printing request instruction terminal, examines whether or not the printer designated as the printing destination has a pull-printing function to execute printing by obtaining the paper original data according to the reference information; and a print control unit which obtains the paper original data according to the reference information when it is found as a result of th

Abstract: A smart and virgin contact fuser service assembly is disclosed for servicing a toner fuser assembly and includes (a) a cleaning device including a cleaning member having virgin cleaning portions on a cleaning surface, the virgin cleaning portions being feedable in a single pass into cleaning contact with a fuser first surface of a fuser member being cleaned; (b) an oiling device including an oiling member having virgin oiling portions on an oiling surface, the virgin oiling portions being feedable in a single pass into oiling contact with a second surface of a fuser member being oiled; and (c) a controller connected to the cleaning device and to the oiling device for selectably and controllably feeding the virgin cleaning portions and the oiling portions in response to a measurable condition of the surface of the fuser roll.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming a print image, which is composed of a first color image and a second color image, on a print medium, including: a test pattern printing portion that prints a test pattern including the first color and the second color; an image pickup portion that pictures an image of the test pattern printed by the test pattern printing portion; and a registration failure discrimination portion that discriminates a registration failure between the first color and the second color according to the pictured image of the test pattern pictured by the image pickup portion.

Abstract: A document management system includes a memory portion that stores an original document identifier and a first derived document identifier in association with a second apparatus identifier, the original document identifier being provided to an original document, the first derived document identifier being provided to a first derived document created when the original document is copied, printed, edited, or sent by a first apparatus, the second apparatus identifier being provided to a second apparatus that further copies, prints, edits, or sends the first derived document; and a search portion that searches for a distribution path of the original document with the use of the association of the original document identifier, the first derived document identifier, and the second apparatus identifier.

Abstract: A question-answering system that is formed with an information processing apparatus for processing information in accordance with a program, and obtains an answer to an input search question sentence by searching a knowledge source, includes: a background information set; a first answer candidate extracting unit; a first background information generating unit; an accuracy determining unit; and a first background information adding unit.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image comprises: a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises a polycondensation resin obtained by polycondensing a polycondensation monomer in the presence of a polycondensation catalyst, the releasing agent comprises a condensation compound obtained by condensing a condensation monomer in the presence of a condensation catalyst, the toner contains a metallic element derived from the polycondensation catalyst and the condensation catalyst in an amount of from 0 to 10 ppm, and the toner contains a sulfur component in an amount of from 100 to 20,000 ppm.

Abstract: A data protection apparatus includes a determination portion that determines an encryption key used for encrypting edited data in consideration of a total value of each piece of data of one or more pieces of data, when the edited data that includes the one or more pieces of data is created on the basis of the one or more pieces of data, and an encryption portion that encrypts the edited data on the basis of the encryption key determined by the determination portion.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image toner in which the quantity within the toner of alkyl carboxylate esters formed from a carboxylic acid containing from approximately 3 to 5 carbon atoms and an alkyl group containing from approximately 3 to 5 carbon atoms is no more than approximately 4 ppm.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thermoplastic microfilter is presented. The method includes structuring a thermoplastic film to have a plurality of micro-indentations in which each indentation defines a cavity on a bottom side of the film and a thinned film layer on a top side of the film and removing the thinned film layer to form filter apertures in the thermoplastic film.

Abstract: An electronic-document management system includes an acquisition unit, an edit unit, first and second storage units, a generation unit and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a target electronic document. The edit unit edits the acquired target electronic document. The first storage unit stores the target electronic document edited by the edit unit and a feature value of the edited target electronic document in association with each other. The generation unit generates meta-information of the edited target electronic document, which comprises a feature value of the edited target electronic document. The second storage unit stores the meta-information of the edited target electronic document and a feature value of the meta-information of the edited target electronic document in association with each other. The output unit outputs the feature value of the meta-information of the edited target electronic document as reference information of the edited target electronic document.

Abstract: A method for producing a colored resin particle dispersion liquid comprises: polycondensing a polyester-forming monomer in a nonaqueous solvent to produce an unsaturated polyester; graft-polymerizing an ethylenic unsaturated monomer to the unsaturated polyester in a nonaqueous solvent to produce a modified polyester resin; and dispersing a colorant and the modified polyester resin to produce a colored resin particle dispersion liquid, the polycondensing and the graft-polymerizing being carried out at a temperature of 150° C. or less.