Abstract: A toner separation apparatus includes a target, an inlet through which toner laden carrier enters to strike the target, an exit for carrier particles below the target, and an exit for toner particles downstream of the target. A filter can be positioned between the target and the toner exit, and a mesh to which the target is attached can be located between the inlet and the filter. The toner-laden carrier can be entrained by air driven by one or more impellers, which can be located within or without the apparatus, upstream or downstream of the target.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a coating material for recycling a thermoplastic resin mold, wherein said coating material is coated on the surface of said thermoplastic resin mold and said thermoplastic resin mold, discarded, can be recycled without removing the coating film of said coating material.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning sheet adapted to clean a surface of a heating roll in a fixing device, which causes a recording sheet bearing a toner image formed of a magnetic toner containing a magnetic material to pass through the fixing device under a state in which the recording sheet is in press contact with the surface of the heating roll having arranged thereon a contact component in contact with the surface of the heating roll and heated to a fixing temperature to rotate, to perform fixing of the toner image, including a synthetic resin sheet with a thickness of 100 &mgr;m or more, which is made of a thermoplastic resin with a melting point higher than the fixing temperature and Rockwell hardness of M60 or more or thermosetting resin with Rockwell hardness of M60 or more.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus containing an image holding member, a contact-type charger for charging a surface of the image holding member, an exposure unit for forming an electrostatic latent image by exposing the charged surface of the image holding member, a developing unit for developing the electrostatic latent image with a spherical toner to obtain a toner image, and a transfer member for electrostatically transferring the toner image from the surface of the image holding member onto a transfer material. A number of toner particles remaining on the surface of the image holding member before passing through an abutting portion between the image holding member and the contact-type charger is in a range of 100 to 400 per unit area (mm2).

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided to control the atmosphere inside of a xerographic control module of an image forming device so that a dew point condition is not reached. The parameters of the atmosphere within the xerographic chamber which are controlled include pressure, temperature and humidity.

Abstract: A media clearance apparatus including a member having a length, a thickness, and a width, and a first end and a second end. The member is securable along a portion of the member to a secondary member and is functionally operational such that one end of the member is movable from a first position out of contact with a media path into a second position in contact with the media path.

Abstract: Disclosed is a phase change ink composition comprising a phase change ink carrier and a colorant compound of the formula

Abstract: The invention provides a common document editing apparatus that is capable of reflecting the edition content based on a exclusive edition right on a common document even in the case where the exclusive edition right is cancelled forcibly. When an exclusive edition right of a common document stored in a document storing unit is requested, a lock information managing unit issues an exclusive edition right to permit exclusive edition and the lock information in stored in a lock information storing unit. Upon receiving the edition content together with the lock information, the lock information managing unit stores the edition content in the document storing unit only when the received lock information is identical with the lock information stored in the lock information storing unit. When the exclusive edition right is cancelled forcibly, the lock information managing unit 23 stores the lock information in an unlocked lock information storing unit.

Abstract: A high speed heat and pressure belt fuser apparatus or structure for fixing toner images including an endless belt and a pair of pressure members between which the endless belt is sandwiched for forming a fusing nip through which substrates carrying toner images pass with the toner images contacting an outer surface of the endless belt. Thus, one of the pressure rolls is supported internally of the endless belt while the other pressure roll is supported externally of the belt. The belt has at least one conformable or deformable layer which cooperates with a deformable or conformable layer on at least one of the pressure members to provide a large nip that yields high gloss images, long belt life, minimal edge wear and reliable stripping at high speeds. Effective substrate stripping is accomplished by wrapping a portion of the belt about the external roll in a post-nip area.

Abstract: Provided is a ribbon structure which may be used as part of a micro-assembly including a micro-device formed on or in a device layer of a single crystal silicon substrate. The ribbon structure is also formed in the device layer, where the ribbon structure is thinned to a thickness less than the thickness of the micro-device. The ribbon structure has an electrical conductive material deposited on its surface. When implemented as part of the micro-assembly, a first end of the micro-device and a first end of a ribbon structure are interconnected, wherein the ribbon structure and out-of-plane device are formed as a single piece.

Abstract: Trapping is a method well known in the graphical arts industry, and provides a remedy for color misregistration defects on printed images. The general technique of trapping involves the placement of a small patches of colored pixels at the edges of colored objects, such that the color associated with these patches appears neutral to the human eye relative to the original colors present. The technique of trapping, however, assumes the objects being trapped are much larger in dimension than the trap zone itself. For small objects, a visible hue shift relative to the original color may occur as a result of the trapping operation. For run length encoded data, the remedy for this is a method that determines the object size by inspecting the run length of a run to be trapped in the fast scan direction, and counting the number of runs above or below that run with an identical color.

Abstract: An ink stick for use in a solid ink feed system of a phase change ink jet printer includes an ink stick body. Nesting elements are formed in the ink stick body for nesting the ink stick body with an adjacent ink stick body. One end surface of the ink stick body has a projecting nesting element, and the opposite end surface has a recessed nesting element having a complementary shape and position. When two ink sticks with such nesting elements abut one another in a feed channel of a solid ink feed system, the projecting nesting element of one ink stick fits into the recessed nesting element of the adjacent ink stick to reduce movement of the ink sticks relative to each other, and to reduce skewing of the ink sticks in the feed channel.

Abstract: A toner and process for making the toner wherein each combined resin and colorant particle has an average size less than about 10 microns and wherein surface additive particles averaging less than about 40 nanometers in size average greater than two (2) percent of the combined weight of resin and colorant in the toner and wherein the Additive Adhesion Force Distribution percent value after 12 kilojoules of energy is greater than 40 percent.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming method excellent in reduction in color unevenness, optical density unevenness, bleeding, inter-color bleeding, a drying time, caused by the printing order; and an image forming apparatus excellent in adaptability to a higher speed. The image forming method and the image forming apparatus are characterized by use of an ink-set, wherein an average value of rates of change over time in contact angle of the respective inks on plain paper is from 1.25 to 3.5 degrees/sec, a rate of change over time in contact angle of each ink on plain paper is less than 4.5 degrees/sec, a rate of change over time in contact angle of a mixed liquid of each ink and the liquid composition on plain paper is from 5 to 10 degrees/sec and the number of coarse particles each of 5 &mgr;m or more in diameter in the mixed liquid is 1×104 particles/&mgr;L or more.

Abstract: The present invention discloses methods and apparatus for processing anti-aliased digital images. Specifically, the present invention describes methods and apparatus where anti-aliased images of a given pixel resolution are transformed to high resolution binary images, binary operations such as template matching are performed on the high resolution images, and then the high resolution images are transformed to anti-aliased images of a predetermined pixel resolution.

Abstract: A technique that uses component data, such as servo encoder feedback data, and calculates real time histograms on a production printed wire board assembly (PWBA). If the histograms are uploaded to a main controller at specific intervals during run, aberrant servo activity can be tracked over a period of time. This could lead to finding machine problems before they become serious enough to cause shutdowns.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for exchanging packets between networks using switches and without using routers for routing the packets to the destination. The method includes assembling a logically addressed packet for transmission on a network. Furthermore, the method includes determining whether an address map of a host assembling the logically addressed packet includes a physical address of a destination. Moreover, the method includes encapsulating the logically addressed packet in the physical address of the destination to form an encapsulated logically addressed packet, when the physical address of the destination for the logically addressed packet is included in the address map of the host. Further, the method includes assessing whether the physical address of the destination indicates that the destination is part of the same network as the host, when the address map of the host does not include the physical address of the destination.

Abstract: A method for resolution conversion for re-sampling anti-aliased images is disclosed which decreases bandwidth costs associated with anti-aliased line art and other costs associated with interpolating these images to a desired resolution. The present method first involving the receipt of an image which is comprised of bitmap data including at least a plurality of gray-scale pixel tiles that define the image. Then receiving the image data at a first resolution and extracting pixel tile information of the received image at a second resolution. The method has the step of next using loose gray scale template matching on each of the pixel tile information with at least one of a plurality of templates so as to generate pixel-wise looseness interval values there between. Then, outputting a portion of the enhanced pixel tile information wherein the enhanced pixel tile information is formed by a matching of a template with pixel-wise looseness values.

Abstract: A member including for example, a supporting layer and a single photogenerating layer, the photogenerating layer comprising particles including hydroxygallium phthalocyanine phthalocyanine Type V, x polymorph metal free phthalocyanine, or chlorogallium phthalocyanine dispersed in a matrix comprising an arylamine hole transporter and an electron transporter selected from the group consisting of N,N′bis(1,2-dimethylpropyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide, 1,1′-dioxo-2-(4-methylphenyl)-6-phenyl-4-(dicyanomethylidene)thiopyran, and a quinone selected from the group consisting of carboxybenzylhaphthaquinone, and tetra (t-butyl) diphenoquinone, and mixtures thereof, and a film forming binder.

Abstract: A process comprising heating a resin latex and a colorant below about the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the resin; adding a metal stearate; and isolating the product; and wherein the heating generates an alkyl carboxylate metal salt component ionically attached to the surface of the product.