Abstract: A color image forming apparatus forms a color image on a recording medium by using a toner including a binding resin, a coloring agent and infrared ray absorbent, and a light source for causing the toner to melt. The light source has a plurality of light emission peaks having wavelengths of &lgr;1, &lgr;2, &lgr;3, . . . , &lgr;n in a range of 500 nm through 3000 nm. Setting is made such that the following relationship is satisfied: |&lgr;1−&Lgr;1<100 nm, and, also, |&lgr;2−&Lgr;2|<100 nm, where &Lgr;1 and &Lgr;2 denote absorption peak wavelengths of said infrared ray absorbent.

Abstract: For a personalized printed product that contains graphical elements, a data template in which instructions for operating on a graphical element are encoded. The data template can include the name of an executable computer program for accessing and downloading in order to generate the personalized printed product. Alternately, the data template can include source code that can be compiled and run by a computer, or machine code that is ready for execution. In a preferred embodiment, the data template is an XML file.

Abstract: A multi-layer slot coating die (A) includes a housing (30) having a cavity therein, and a divider (32) arranged within the cavity of the housing (30) such that a plurality of separate channels are defined therein. The channels have elongated openings on an output side of the die (A) from which layers (10, 12) of coating material are extruded, and an ultrasonic transducer (44) is mechanically coupled to the divider (32).

Abstract: To enable fine droplets each having a diameter of 15 &mgr;m or less to be ejected without causing increase of device cost and a device size, and decrease reliability and a manufacturing yield. A driving waveform driving a piezoelectric actuator includes a first voltage changing process for inflating a pressure generating chamber in a falling time t1, a second voltage changing process for rapidly deflating the pressure generating chamber in a rising time t3 after keeping the fallen voltage during a time t2, a third voltage changing process for rapidly inflating the pressure generating chamber just after the preceding process, and a fourth voltage changing process for compressing the pressure generating chamber just after the preceding process.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a molding thermoplastic resin material giving resin mold whose quality and value are substantially equal to original resin mold even in a case where said resin mold is recycled. To attain said object, olefin group rubber and/or acrylic rubber to which monomer(s) being the same or similar monomer as (to) monomer(s) composing said molding thermoplastic resin material is(are) graft-copolymerized to give said rubbers compatibility with said molding thermoplastic resin material is(are) added in said molding thermoplastic resin material to improve said equal quality recycling property (property that quality and value are substantially equal to original thermoplastic resin mold even in a case where said thermoplastic resin mold is recycled).

Abstract: The invention provides an ink jet color recording apparatus capable of forming a good image by preventing solidification of ink. The ink jet color recording apparatus has a recovery step of recovering the injection function of a black nozzle by recovering black ink (pigment ink) remaining in the black nozzle into a black cap, and a supply step of supplying color ink (dye ink) to the black cap after the recovery step. Thus, the pigment ink recovered into the black cap by the recovery step can be made into mixed ink hard to dry, and further ink adhering to the inner wall of a suction hose connected to the black cap can be made into mixed ink residue hard to dry.

Abstract: A color toner for electrophotography containing less conductive particles that have appropriate electrical resistance and an aspect ratio can produce clear color images. Specifically, the conductive particles contained in the color toner having an electrical resistance of 1-100 &OHgr;·cm, an aspect ratio of 10 or more, and a major axis length of 4 &mgr;m or less that are distributed in the binding resin of the color toner at a weight percentage of 20 wt % or less ensure preferable properties of the color toner.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein allow a user to perform localized searching from a standard web browser. In particular, the systems and methods of this invention use a two-prong approach to accomplish both a dynamic breadth-first crawl search and a contextualize index search to generate search results. The search results are then assembled in a unified results page and displayed to a user.

Abstract: A user interface extension allows data entry into a field of a marking machine user interface from an electronic device via compatible communications ports. In embodiments, a marking machine includes a UI into which data must be entered. The user takes the UI to the point at which data must be entered, then lets the machine know that data will be transmitted from another source, at which point the machine begins monitoring its communications ports for the data. The user enters or selects data to be transmitted from the electronic device, then indicates that the data is ready to be sent, at which point the electronic device transmits the data to the machine via a communications port of the electronic device. Examples of suitable marking machines include multifunction inkjet and xerographic machines. Examples of suitable electronic devices include laptop computers, PDAs, cellular telephones, and PDA/telephone hybrid devices.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is divided into detachable modules such as an IOT module and an EXIT module. A circuit architecture is constructed in which a main module circuit containing a master control part for controlling the whole system and a plurality of sub-module circuits containing slave control parts controlled by the master control part are separately handled according to the respective functional parts in the apparatus. Each module circuit includes a CPU on which a common operating system is installed, and an I/O part which interfaces with functional operation parts which operate corresponding to the dedicated functional parts. The CPU and the I/O part are mounted on daughter boards, which are removably attached to a mother board. A circuit-attribute select controller part 150 selects a main module circuit or sub-module circuits.

Abstract: A printing controller 620 for controlling an engine 30 in accordance with the processing characteristics of the engine 30 is removed from the FEP 500, so that the FEP 500 can exclusively perform the RIP processing or compressive processing. The printing controller 620 removed from the FEP 500 is relocated in a BEP 600 closely related to the output side. An image storage portion 602 for storing data received from the FEP 500 is provided in the BEP 600. This allows the FEP 500 to perform processing independent of the printing engine 30 on the output side. For example, it is possible to perform efficient RIP processing or compressive processing using a general-purpose RIP engine. Since the BEP 600 is responsible for the control in processing suitable for devices on the output side, it is not necessary to provide each of the devices on the output side with a dedicated FEP, thereby making it easy to improve the performance and function of the system.

Abstract: A printing control portion 620 for controlling an engine 30 in accordance with the processing characteristics of the engine 30 is removed from the FEP 500, so that the FEP 500 can exclusively perform the RIP processing or compressive processing. The printing control portion 620 removed from the FEP 500 is relocated in a BEP 600 closely connected to the output side. An image storage portion 602 for storing data received from the FEP 500 is provided in the BEP 600. To perform processing suitable for the output format in accordance with a request from a client or recovery processing, the BEP 600 controls each functional portion in the BEP 600 or the printing engine 30 on the output side, independent of the FEP 500, so as to perform processing in accordance with the output format desired by the client or the recovery processing, and then send image data to the printing engine 30.

Abstract: A signal transmission system has a master node and plural slave nodes performing data transmission with the master node. The master node has a serial-to-parallel converter for converting a serial data signal from each slave node into a parallel data signal. Each slave node has a transmission aligner for performing word alignment processing upon a parallel data signals, and a parallel-to-serial converter for converting the parallel data signal subjected to the word alignment processing by the transmission aligner into a serial data signal, and outputting the serial data signal to the master node.

Abstract: After parallel data is converted into serial data by the converter 402, the serial data is converted into an optical signal by the photoelectric converter 404, and this optical signal is incident on the optical fiber 410. When the optical signal passes in the optical fiber 410, it is received by the photoelectric converter 424 on the opposite side and converted into serial data. After this serial data is converted into parallel data by the converter 422, it is inputted onto the video board 427. When the optical transmission technique is adopted, even if a plurality of functional modules are arranged distant from each other, the problems of electromagnetic interference, electro magnetic emission, adaptability to the electromagnetic environment and deformation of a wave-form are not caused.

Abstract: There are provided a liquid drop discharging head that can reduce variations in a print density easily caused by a matrix array head without reducing a recording speed and can realize compatibility between recording an image at high speeds and recording the image at high quality levels and a liquid drop discharging device provided with this liquid drop discharging head. Ejectors are alternately arranged in such a way that dots formed on a recording medium are arranged in the order of the ejectors A, E, B, F, C, G, D, and H. The dots each having a relatively large diameter and the dots each having a relatively small diameter are mixedly arranged in a sub-scanning direction at predetermined pitches. This can increase a space frequency of variations in a print density in the sub-scanning direction and hence make human eyes become hard to sense the variations in the print density, thereby being capable of ensuring high uniformity in a recorded result.

Abstract: A belt fuser includes a fuser roller and a guide roller rotatably supported in a frame, as well as a floating idler roller and a tension roller. A belt reeved over the fuser, guide, idler, and tension rolls holds the idler roll in place and forms a nip by the reeving of the belt over the fuser roller. The tension roller is connected to a constant force mechanism that applies, through the tension roller, a tension force in the belt and a normal force against the fuser roller throughout the nip. Fusing nip length, dwell time, and thermal efficiency are greatly improved over roller fusers, and the fusing temperature can be significantly reduced as a result. In addition, the belt fuser of embodiments is significantly more compact than previous belt fusers, occupying only slightly more space than a conventional two roll fuser.

Abstract: A label sheet for electrophotographic process is composed of a label body in which an adhesive layer is formed on the back surface of a label base and a separator that is tentatively bonded to the label body with the adhesive layer interposed in between so as to be peelable from the label body. Both of the label base and a separator base are made of heat-resistant resin film. A toner accepting layer contains a release agent and has surface resistivity of 1×1014 &OHgr;/□ or more. An antistatic treatment layer has surface resistivity of 1×108 to 1×1012 &OHgr;/□.

Abstract: There are provided an electric part which can be produced through a production process which is excellent in an industrial productivity and a method of manufacturing the electric part, by including a matrix-shaped nonconductive base member, a carbon nanotube group that is sealed within the nonconductive base member and includes one carbon nanotube or plural carbon nanotubes which are electrically connected to each other, in which substantially only end portion of the one carbon nanotube or at least one carbon nanotube contained in the plural carbon nanotubes is exposed from one surface of the nonconductive base member, and an electrode that is connected to a side surface of the at least one carbon nanotube contained in the carbon nanotube group.

Abstract: A Web browser provides the ability to separate content and hyper-links from a Web page and provides a list of the links for viewing on a mobile device display screen, enabling more effective Web page navigating using the limited mobile device display. In addition to the links from the Web page, further links are created to telephone numbers, addresses, and other communication-related information in the Web page to further enhance usability of the Web page information for mobile device users. Further, once a link is selected using the mobile device, a services portal link is provided to the mobile device display to provide selection of services to be performed on the selected link, such as faxing or printing.

Abstract: An UI section accepts operation of a user. A setting selection section judges as to whether this user operation instructs a process operation executed in accordance with setting information of an IC chip attached to an original document, or another process operation executed in accordance with setting information entered by the user. In the former case, an operation control section controls a data reading section so as to read out the setting information from the IC chip attached to the original document, and also, controls a print control section to perform printing/FAX transforming operations in accordance with this read setting information. In the latter case, an operation control section controls a data writing section in order to write the setting information entered by the user into the IC chip.