Abstract: A print managing apparatus is included in a printing system has an input section, detecting section and an output section. The input section inputs the printing instruction which describes each printing step of printing linkage steps which offers a printing related service. The detecting section detects a processing section, which interprets the printing instruction described in a predetermined description format and processes the printing related service, which are provided for the respective printing steps described in the printing instruction and detects a description format which can be interpreted at the processing section. The output section sets the processing section for processing the printing step which offers the printing related service and outputs a work instruction in which work items relating to the printing step are described in a description format which can be interpreted at the set processing section.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a light source configured with an array of plural point light sources; a light receiving sensor that receives reflected light from a document to which light has been applied from the light source; and shading members that shade main light in irradiation light applied to a position of document reading by the light receiving sensor from the plural point light sources constituting the light source.

Abstract: A print processing device in a printing system for processing a print job based on instructions and which processes at least a portion of the processing. The print processing device includes determination and output sections. The determination section determines whether a first processing device is capable of executing subsequent processing. When the first processing device is capable of executing, the output section outputs the print instruction to the first processing device, and when not capable, the output section outputs, to a second substitute processing device, a print instruction having a description format corresponding to the substitute processing device.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, when a general user pulls a paper tray out of the image forming apparatus, changes used paper with another paper having different paper quality to insert the paper tray into the image forming apparatus and operates a touch panel to change the paper quality setting, a CPU stores paper quality data before change in a RAM. The CPU returns the paper quality setting to the paper quality setting before change when a printing job is completed on the paper after paper quality change.

Abstract: When color proofing is instructed in a first printing instruction, an MIS (Management Information System) apparatus of a printing system detects whether or not a DDCP (Digital Direct Color Proofer) can execute the color proofing. If the DDCP can execute the color proofing, the MIS apparatus outputs the first printing instruction to an agent of the DDCP. If the DDCP cannot execute the color proofing, the MIS apparatus converts the first printing instruction into a second printing instruction, and outputs the second printing instruction to a job flow engine of an image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A print management device manages the print-related service to be performed by a processing unit. The print instruction contains a request item indicating a request to produce printed matter. The print management device includes an input unit that inputs the print instruction; an acquiring unit that acquires unique data indicative of characteristics of the processing unit and a description format which can be interpreted by the processing unit; a generating unit that generates an operation instruction as to the request item contained in the inputted print instruction, the operation instruction being described in the description format which can be interpreted by the processing unit and being based on the unique data; and an output unit that outputs the generated operation instruction as the print instruction to the processing unit.

Abstract: A diffusion part diffuses an optical signal emitted from the end face of an optical fiber of an input light guide. An input reflection part reflects the optical signal diffused by the diffusion part in the direction of an output reflection part. A transparent medium guides the optical signal reflected by the input reflection part in the direction of the output reflection part. Output reflection parts reflect optical signals guided in the transparent media in the direction of optical fibers of output light guides. The optical signal reflected by the output reflection part is incident on the end face of the optical fiber and is transmitted over the output light guide.

Abstract: The present invention provides a document verification system capable of verifying whether a document is an original at low cost and with ease. A terminal device acquires, as a registered feature vector feature information indicating a feature of a nonreproducible disorder portion in a printing region on a document serving as the original, and stores the registered feature vector on a hard disk via the Internet. A server acquires, as a calculated feature vector the same information as the registered feature vector in a document to be verified as to whether the document is the original, reads out the registered feature vector from the hard disk, compares the acquired calculated feature vector with the read out registered feature vector, and verifies whether the document to be verified is the original on the basis of a result of the comparison.

Abstract: An active annotation mechanism detects annotations on a document which may be in the form of in-line annotations and out-of-band annotations, which may be inputted through a variety of input devices. The active annotation mechanism detects the annotations added to a document and determines whether the annotation of the document requires further action or whether the annotation is simply commentaries on the text, a note of other related items, etc. When it is determined that annotations require further action, the annotation is detected. The active annotation will carry an indication of an activity to be carried out, or a parameter that configures the activity, or both. The active annotation which has been detected, is then carried out by the document management system.

Abstract: An image display medium capable of providing an image display with less change in the image density, with less change in the uniformness of the density and at stable density contrast even after repetitive rewriting over a long period of time, and an image forming apparatus using the image display medium are provided. The image display medium and image forming apparatus have a pair of facing substrates, at least two kinds of particles sealed in a space between the pair of the substrates in which the at least two kinds of particles have a characteristic that at least one kind of them is positively chargeable and at least one other kind of them is negatively chargeable, and the particles chargeable positively and negatively are of colors different from each other and a charge controller is internally added to one or both of the particles chargeable positively and negatively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a printing device, which notifies an administrator of access to its setting information. A control circuit in the printing device determines whether notification of changes made to the settings should be sent to the administrator based on preset notifications prerecorded in the printing device. When it is determined that the administrator should be notified, the printing device sends information on the changed settings via a communication circuit to an administrator terminal, which has been prerecorded in a storage device.

Abstract: A sheet ejection apparatus which is built in as a part of a processing apparatus main unit for ejecting a sheet processed by a processing section in the processing apparatus main unit to a sheet stack section placed on the top of the processing apparatus main unit. The processing apparatus main unit is formed with a unit reception section and one of sheet ejection units different in specifications can be attached to the unit reception section. The invention is also applied to a sheet processing apparatus using the sheet ejection apparatus.

Abstract: A polyimide film substrate pre-heater assembly is provided for pre-heating substrates in an image producing machine and includes (a) plural rollers including a drive roller; (b) a substrate path defining and heating assembly for defining a portion of substrate path; and (c) a belt assembly including a polyimide film belt forming a loop. The loop forms a substrate transport nip against the substrate path defining and heating assembly. The polyimide film belt includes a polyimide film support layer, a puzzle cut seam having inter-fitting teeth and receptacle members, and a fluoroelastomeric overcoat layer for filling and strengthening the puzzle cut seam, thereby preventing the inter-fitting teeth and receptacle members thereof from popping up when the loop is driven over relatively small diameter rollers.

Abstract: An electronic device containing a polythiophene derived from a monomer segment or monomer segments containing two 2,5-thienylene segments, (I) and (II), and an optional divalent linkage D wherein A is a side chain; B is hydrogen or a side chain; and D is a divalent linkage, and wherein the number of A-substituted thienylene units (I) in the monomer segments is from about 1 to about 10, the number of B-substituted thienylene units (II) is from 0 to about 5, and the number of divalent linkages D is 0 or 1.

Abstract: Booking venders are to be enabled to issue booking certificates without having to consume their own resources. Advance booking is made and sent to a retailer from a consumer terminal via the Internet. The retailer requests a booking certificate issuing center to issue a booking certificate associated with the product or the booking party, and receives the booking certificate issued from the booking certificate issuing center. The consumer terminal receives the booking certificate from the retailer via the Internet, and uses it to have itself verified to be the legitimate booking party by a verifying apparatus associated with a provider. The booking party can receive the supply of the booked product or service if its booking certificate is successfully verified.

Abstract: The perceptible resolution and the number of gradations are both guaranteed, and an image is encoded at a high efficiency. An apparatus of the present invention is provided with a blocking circuit for dividing an input image into blocks, a quantization LUT for quantizing the image in a block, a quantization representative value LUT for obtaining a quantization representative value of the quantized image, a differential calculation circuit for obtaining the average value in the block of the differential between the pixel value in the block and the quantization representative value obtained by the quantization representative value LUT, an average value obtaining unit having an adding circuit and a dividing circuit, a first hierarchy encoder for encoding the image quantized by the quantization LUT, and a second hierarchy encoder for encoding the average value obtained by the average value obtaining unit.

Abstract: An image processing device for executing flow processing on the basis of linking information which represents a series of flow processing relating to document data and an external processing execution request transmission process are linked, the external processing execution request transmission process transmitting an execution request for external processing which relates to document data and is executed outside the image processing device, the device includes: a receiving section which receives at least one of image display data and an image display program, which are transmitted from an external device and reflecting a result of execution of the external processing, the external device executing the external processing in accordance with the external processing execution request; and a display section which displays an image based on the at least one of image display data and an image display program received by the receiving section.

Abstract: A substrate compiling system includes an actuator, cable and tamper device. The tamper device includes a clamp assembly. The clamp assembly is retracted and extended. The clamp assembly can be used to clamp an edge of each compiled set of substrates and transfer the compiled set to a stacking tray, platform or the like. The clamp assembly may remain in an extended position until all other substrate supporting structures no longer support the substrates and an opposing unclamped edge of the compiled set engages the stacking tray below.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information reading device includes: a light source that irradiates, with reference beam, a hologram recorded in an optical recording medium; a reading unit that reads information from a holographic image reconstructed by the reference beam being diffracted by the hologram; a housing; a contact member of the housing contacting a paper; an open portion formed in the contact member, through which the optical recording medium is exposed and towards which the reference beam is emitted; an alignment mark formed at a periphery of the open portion, the reference beam irradiating the hologram satisfying a holographic image reconstruction condition by the alignment mark being aligned with an optical recording medium alignment mark recorded on the optical recording medium; and a viewing portion that is positioned in the housing and through which the alignment mark and the optical recording medium alignment mark are visible.

Abstract: A surface emitting semiconductor laser includes a substrate, a first semiconductor multilayer reflector formed on the substrate, an active region formed on the first semiconductor multilayer reflector, a second semiconductor multilayer reflector formed on the active region, a current confinement layer interposed between the first and second semiconductor multilayer reflectors and partially including an oxide region, and an insulating layer formed on a coated surface provided by a semiconductor layer which is part of the first semiconductor multilayer reflector and is revealed after removal of a surface oxidation layer.