Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device which aims for appropriate settings and simplification of printing functions. In a print server, when a print job is received, an application name used in a client terminal is specified from a drawing command of the print job, and standard settings of printing functions provided for each application are read from database files. Thereafter, the standard settings and settings of printing functions of the print job are compared. When the settings are different, after carrying out a warning processing, setting of printing functions based on the standard settings is carried out, and image processing and printing processing based on the set printing functions are executed. In this way, while simplifying settings of printing functions in the client terminal, image processing and printing processing by appropriate printing functions are possible.

Abstract: Increased manual access spaces are provided even within a more compact printer for the movement or removal of printer components such as paper path baffles to be moved for the removal of jammed sheets and/or other hand or tool insertions by printer users and/or repair personnel. This is provided by automatically reducing the normal operating space occupied or required by at least one operative printer component during a machine shutdown in or near such desired manual access areas. In particular, by replacing at least part of at least one of the present rigid space-consuming air ducts or manifolds in a printer with a collapsible portion adjacent to at least one paper path jam clearance area or other desired manual access area which at least partially collapses upon printer shutdowns removing power from the blower for that air duct to substantially increase unobstructed manual access.

Abstract: A document processing operation system includes: a rewrite unit; and an image display medium for holding display of a document image rewritably and in a substantially no-power supply state, which is attached to the rewrite unit, wherein the rewrite unit performs display image rewrite processing for the image display medium, wherein the image display medium comprises: an operation device that accepts operation input from a user; and an information providing section that transmits operation information entered on the operation device in a wirelessly readable manner, and wherein the rewrite unit comprises: a read section that wirelessly reads the operation information transmitted by the information providing section; a processing section that performs processing relating to document data preset in response to the read operation information; and a write section that writes a document image to the image display medium with the read operation information under a control of the processing section.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are several embodiments to facilitate the characterization of fuser stripping performance. Recognizing that the characteristics of a substrate exiting a fusing nip are indicative of the operation of the nip and the stripping operation itself, several contact and non-contact sensing methods are described to detect or predict degraded stripping performance, thereby permitting one or more compensation techniques to be employed, or to identify the need for fuser subsystem replacement.

Abstract: A disposal processing apparatus comprises: a disposal processing section that disposes of a recording medium; an arrival detecting section that detects whether the recording medium has reached the disposal processing section; and a judging section that judges whether the recording medium has been disposed of by the disposal processing section based on a detection result of the arrival detecting section.

Abstract: A disposal processing system is provided and includes: a disposal section that disposes of a document; a reading section that reads identification information of the document, the identification information being attached to an image on the document; a judging section that makes a judgment whether disposal of the document is permitted on the basis of the identification information; and a controller that controls the disposal section so that the disposal section disposes of the document at least one of: when the judging section makes a judgment that the disposal of the document is permitted; and when the controller acquires information indicating that the disposal of the document is permitted while the judging section makes a judgment that the disposal of the document is prohibited, and so that the disposal section does not dispose of the document when the judging section makes the judgment that the disposal of the document is prohibited.

Abstract: A document disposal apparatus is provided and includes: a disposal processing section that disposes of a document; a document placement section on which the document is placed; a reading section that reads identification information of the document, the identification information being attached to the document, and makes a judgment whether the document exists on the document placement section; and a controller that controls the disposal processing section in accordance with a reading result of the reading section.

Abstract: A document processing operation system includes: an image display holding medium that includes a display section for holding display of a document image rewritably and in a substantially no-power supply state; and a processing unit that processes document data in response to operation information of a user for the medium, wherein the medium further includes: an operation device that accepts operation input from a user; and an information providing section that provides operation information entered on the operation device to the processing unit, wherein the processing unit includes: a data processing section that performs processing preset in response to the operation information for data of a document whose display is held on the medium; a holding section that holds the operation information acquired from the medium; and a start command section that causes the data processing section to start processing in response to the held operation information.

Abstract: A remote instruction system includes a control portion. The control portion transmits a first image to a remote terminal and controls a projection portion to project a first annotation image onto a subject according to an instruction issued from the remote terminal on the basis of the first image, and the control portion transmits a second image to the remote terminal and controls the projection portion to project a second annotation image onto the subject according to the instruction issued from the remote terminal on the basis of the second image, the first image being captured by a first image capturing portion provided for capturing the first image of the subject, the second image being captured by a second image capturing portion provided for zooming a given area of the subject to capture the second image, when the given area in the first image is selected from the remote terminal.

Abstract: A disposal apparatus comprises: a disposal processing section that disposes of a recording medium; an authentication information acquiring section that acquires authentication information to be used for authenticating a user of the disposal apparatus; a disposal processing control section that permitting or prohibiting disposal of the recording medium by the disposal processing section based on the authentication information acquired by the authentication information acquiring section.

Abstract: Conventional design tools were not developed for designing square zero-shift supercells. Conventionally, solutions that enable square zero-shift supercells were found by trial and error or by exhaustive analysis. According to a first design criterion of this invention, a non-square supercell in a first frame of reference has a diagonal that is equal in length to the diagonal of a square supercell in a second frame of reference rotated at a desired screen angle to the first frame of reference. The screen angle is a function of the lengths of the sides of the non-square supercell in the first frame of reference. According to a second design criterion, if the area of the corresponding square supercell in the second frame of reference is an integer, a square zero-shift supercell can be designed based on the lengths of the sides of the non-square supercell in the first frame of reference.

Abstract: An impedance conversion device has four conductors arranged so that the first and second conductors form a transmission line having a first characteristic impedance, the third and fourth conductors form a transmission line having the first characteristic impedance, the first and third conductors form a transmission line having a second characteristic impedance, and the second and fourth conductors form a third transmission line having the second characteristic impedance. The second and fourth conductors are interconnected at proximate ends through a resistance equal to the first characteristic impedance. The third and fourth conductors are interconnected at proximate ends through a resistance equal to the second characteristic impedance. The lateral dimensions of the impedance conversion device are small enough to permit insertion in a stacked pair line.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for determining preferred image locations for placing watermark information (both hidden and obvious). The disclosure includes at least three criteria (image similarity, contrast, and image value range) that may be used alone or in combination to determine a preferred area of the target image for placing the watermark depending upon the user's intent for the mark (hiding or showing watermark).

Abstract: An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a yellow toner for flash fixation, comprising an infrared absorbent, one or more yellow colorants, and a binder resin, wherein a* of the infrared absorbent in an CIELAB color space is less than 0, and a* of one or more of the yellow colorants in the CIELAB color space is more than 0, or vice versa; and a developer and an image forming method using the yellow toner.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a xerographic cleaning blade, an actuator member operatively connected to the cleaning blade and movable over a first stroke from a first actuator position to a second actuator position, and a damper operatively connected to the actuator member. As the actuator member moves over the first stroke the cleaning blade moves from a first blade position to a second blade position. The damper allows substantially uninhibited actuation of the actuator member over a first portion of the first stroke. The damper damps actuation of the actuator member over a second portion of the first stroke.

Abstract: Anti-bacterial composite particles which comprise a polymer base material comprising a thermal melting polymer, such as a polyolefine, exhibiting good dispersibility in a basic material resin and having a lower molecular weight or a lower softening point than that of the basic material resin, and inorganic fine particles comprising a metal having anti-bacterial activity carried thereon. An antibacterial resin composition can be prepared by melting and kneading a synthetic resin composition as the basic material resin together with the anti-bacterial composite particles and forming by known molding methods such as extrusion molding and injection molding, and can be used for producing various synthetic resin moldings which have an inorganic anti-bacterial agent uniformly dispersed in a synthetic resin composition and thus exhibits good anti-bacterial effect.

Abstract: A xerographic printing device, including a charging device having a shield. In some embodiments of the shield of the charging device in the xerographic printing device, a plurality of holes are provided in an evenly spaced linear fashion extending nearly a full length of the charging device shield on a downstream process side of the charging device shield. The charge device can be a corotron, a dicorotron, a scorotron, a discorotron, a pin corotron, a pin scorotron, or any other known or later developed charging device of that type.