Abstract: A laser imaging system and method. In an example embodiment, one or more laser diode arrays are associated with a digital micro-mirror device. A shutter-like device can be positioned upstream in the light path of the laser diode array (or arrays) such that the shutter-like device diverts energy out of the laser imaging system and away from the digital micro-mirror device during periods of extended non-imaging. A homogenizer module can be provided wherein the shutter-like device is located.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: a toner particle having average circularity of 0.91 or more and 0.98 or less, a silica particle externally added to the toner particle, and a strontium titanate particle that is externally added to the toner particle, that has an average primary particle diameter of 10 nm or more and 100 nm or less, that has average primary particle circularity of 0.82 or more and 0.94 or less, and circularity that becomes 84% of accumulation of the primary particle of more than 0.92.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes: a memory storing a program; and at least one hardware processor configured to execute a process in the program. The process includes: performing pre-printing of overprinting which is an operation of performing pre-printing on a medium and then performing post-printing on the medium; and printing a chart asymmetric with respect to rotation toward a direction of the medium on the medium during test printing related to the pre-printing.

Abstract: A printing system treats the surface of three-dimensional objects to be printed to improve the printing of the articles of manufacture. The system includes a surface treatment module that is positioned to part of the printing process and to treat the object surfaces prior to the surfaces being printed. The treatment of the surfaces within the module include operating an abrasive device to remove material from an object surface and to apply solvent to the object surface to clean the surface.

Abstract: A printer uses at least two centrally positioned single nip de-skew, lateral registration, and process direction registration devices to remove skew, laterally register, and register in the process direction substrates moving along a media transport path. The single nip de-skew, lateral registration, and process direction registration devices include a fixed roller having a low coefficient of friction and a length longer than a rotating wheel that forms a nip with the fixed roller having a high coefficient of friction to enable an actuator to move the rotating wheel along the fixed roller to laterally register and de-skew substrates.

Abstract: A tandem system of metering and donor rolls is used to apply two different adhesives to a fully adhesive backed multilayer sheet to produce variably distributed adhesives and properties. Each of the two adhesives is unique and is cured differently to create a layer of adhesive that has differing adhesive properties on the sheet. A clear adhesive is applied to a top portion of cards before they are cut from the sheet and has a higher tackiness than the adhesive applied to the rest of the cards on the sheet in order to reduce glue buildup on blades cutting the cards from the sheet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit that transfers a toner image to a recording medium; a non-white toner image forming unit that forms a non-white toner image on the transfer unit by using non-white toner having a non-white color that differs from white; a white toner image forming unit that forms a white toner image on the transfer unit by using white toner that is white in color after the non-white toner image is formed on the transfer unit; and a control unit that controls an amount of the white toner used by the white toner image forming unit to form the white toner image so that the amount of the white toner is smaller when the non-white toner image is formed under the white toner image than when no toner image is formed under the white toner image.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing belt; a contact portion that comes into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in a width direction; a holding portion disposed opposite the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt to guide and hold the fixing belt; a pressing unit that presses the fixing belt against the contact portion; a first protrusion and a second protrusion respectively disposed at portions of the holding portion upstream and downstream of the contact portion in a rotation direction of the fixing belt to come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt in the width direction; and a lubricant applied to the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt. At least one of the first protrusion and the second protrusion has a recess at at least a center portion of the protrusion in a longitudinal direction of the protrusion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives, during or after reproduction of a video, a predetermined operation with respect to the video, an associating unit that associates the received operation with a reproduction location where the received operation has been generated in the video, and a setting unit that sets in response to the received operation an importance degree of the reproduction location associated with the received operation.

Abstract: An image output system includes a section that manages identification information for identifying a terminal apparatus and a target file as a target of an image output in correlation with each other, a section that acquires identification information of the terminal apparatus and designation information for designating an image output apparatus from the terminal apparatus, and a section that transmits the target file correlated with the identification information of the terminal apparatus, which has been acquired from the terminal apparatus to the image output apparatus designated by the designation information acquired from the terminal apparatus.

Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes a print data selecting unit that selects print data in response to a user operation, a communication establishing unit that establishes wireless communication with a network, a detection unit that detects an event in which an image forming apparatus connected to a first network is selected as a printing destination of the print data, an obtainment unit that obtains the print data from a storage destination connected to a second network different from the first network through wireless communication with the second network established by the communication establishing unit after the detection unit detects the event, in a case where the print data is stored in the storage destination, and a data transmitting unit that transmits the print data obtained by the obtainment unit to the image forming apparatus through wireless communication with the first network established by the communication establishing unit.

Abstract: An image output system includes a section that stores registration information in which feature information of a registered user and a target file registered by the registered user are associated with each other, a section that acquires feature information of a current user requesting an output of an image of the target file, a section that obtains an authentication result indicating whether or not two pieces of feature information satisfy a predetermined coincidence condition, by comparing the feature information of the current user to the feature information of the registered user, and a section that controls the output of the image of the target file in accordance with the authentication result.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a generation unit and a providing unit. The generation unit generates data corresponding to a process specified by a user. The providing provides, after generation of the data, identification information to be used by the user to issue an instruction for a post-process for the data generated by the generation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires source information of a transfer source, which includes plural elements to which attribute information has been assigned, and limit information indicating the number of elements storable in a transfer destination, and a generation unit that classifies the elements by using the attribute information of each of the elements in the source information and generates a hierarchical structure of the source information by using a unit of a classification as a unit of a class, so as to correspond to the number of elements indicated by the limit information in the transfer destination.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor and a warning unit. The processor applies screen processing to image data including a periodic pattern. The warning unit outputs, in a case where a difference between an evaluation value of image quality of the image data before the screen processing and an evaluation value of image quality of the image data after the screen processing is outside a predetermined range of values, warning information indicating that the difference is outside the predetermined range of values.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an information obtaining unit that obtains storage destination information of print data managed by a mobile terminal device from the mobile terminal device, a data obtaining unit that obtains the print data from a storage destination of the print data by using the storage destination information, and a printing unit that prints the obtained print data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception section that receives a designation of an item to be an operation target on a screen used to operate data on a work which includes plural procedures, and a presentation section that presents a candidate value for the item, which is the operation target, and locational information of a procedure, in which the candidate value is extracted, on the screen.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first specifying section that receives specification of an execution target function from plural functions, a second specifying section that receives specification of a normal mode or a simulation mode, and an execution section that executes a process for implementing the specified function in the mode received by the second specifying section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes plural network interfaces; a storage area for storing data, which is associated with output path information defining a network interface permitted as an output path of the stored data; a user attribute storage unit that stores an attribute of each user; and a reception unit that receives selection of the output path information associated with the storage area from the user, and receives selection of an option associated with the storage area, from a group of options limited according to the attribute of the user, among plural options for the output path information.

Abstract: A method and system for providing automatic recommendations for a group of individuals based on physiological data of the individuals measured by sensors are provided. The method includes acquiring, from sensors, first physiological data from individuals of a group, prior to a point of time of a change in the group; acquiring, from sensors, second physiological data from the individuals of the group, after the point of time of the change; determining physiological condition of an individual of the group, based on the acquired first physiological data and the acquired second physiological data of the individuals of the group; and determining a recommendation fir the individual of the group based on the determined physiological condition,and the first and second physiological data.