Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method which enable a user of a networked device to communicate with the device by email and to receive a reply thereto which contains the installation software which assists the user to facilitate device setup and configuration prior to the subsequent operation thereof. The method involves a user first sending or otherwise initiating an email to a remote device such as a printer. In the alternative, the printer device gains access to one or more end user's email addresses. Once obtained, the printer device automatically sends a reply email back to the user, preferably with a greeting or other message, with a package attached thereto or otherwise associated therewith containing installation software along with other configuration software and tools.

Abstract: What is presented is a system and method by which a visually impaired worker could easily and quickly navigate menu options on touch screen displays. An Audible Feedback ON/OFF Switch is provided which turns the audible feedback feature of the present invention on or off. The software monitoring which row/column areas of the touch screen's display grid have been touched by the user in response to a menu option selection is made switchable into one of two modes. A first mode is when the audible feedback feature is OFF or otherwise disabled. In this mode the software operates the touch screen's menu selections in the normal manner in which the machine is intended to perform. When a user selects an option, the option is immediately activated whether it be a machine activity or a jump to another level of menus. A second mode is when the audible feedback feature has been turned ON or otherwise activated.

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a hybrid composition of an elastomer having a silicone material covalently bonded to a backbone of the elastomer, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: What is presented is a system and method by which a visually impaired worker could easily and quickly navigate menu options on touch screen displays. An Audible Feedback ON/OFF Switch is provided which turns the audible feedback feature of the present invention on or off. The software monitoring which row/column areas of the touch screen's display grid have been touched by the user in response to a menu option selection is made switchable into one of two modes. A first mode is when the audible feedback feature is OFF or otherwise disabled. In this mode the software operates the touch screen's menu selections in the normal manner in which the machine is intended to perform. When a user selects an option, the option is immediately activated whether it be a machine activity or a jump to another level of menus. A second mode is when the audible feedback feature has been turned ON or otherwise activated.

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a mica-type silicate material, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: In a digital scanner or other source for sending documents by electronic mail to a client, the size of the document is determined and a calculation is made of how many segments the document must be divided into. If the required number of segments is so large as to present a risk of flooding a network, a warning is displayed to a user. The system is particularly useful in the context of scanning to e-mail full-color images.

Abstract: A method of, and a toner purging development apparatus for, enabling clean and efficient accomplishment of custom color on demand imaging in a xerographic color machine using two component developer material.

Abstract: In a xerographic printing apparatus, a blade is used to clean the surface of a rotating photoreceptor. At an end of the blade is disposed a flexible sealing member. The sealing member includes a bulk portion, one part of which contacts the surface of the photoreceptor and another part of which is attached to a stationary surface. Extending from the bulk portion is a tab which defines a diagonal edge. A portion of the diagonal edge contacts a surface of the blade.

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a fluorosilicone material, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating having an elastomer of monomers selected from the group consisting of halogenated monomers, polyorganosiloxane monomers, and mixtures thereof, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a silicone material and Q-resin, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: A carrier comprised of a core and thereover a polymer coating, and which coating is generated by the emulsion polymerization of one or more monomers and a surfactant, and wherein said polymer coating is of a diameter of equal to or less than about 100 nanometers.

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a latex fluoroelastomer, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: A device retrieval system in a network system including a plurality of devices each having at least one attribute. The retrieval system includes: a plurality of device registration units, a device retrieval unit and an identity judgment unit. The device registration unit registers at least a part of the devices and attributes thereof while associating the devices with the attributes respectively. The device retrieval unit retrieves devices and attributes thereof from the devices and the attributes registered in the device registration units. The identity judgment unit judges identity as to whether a device retrieved from one of the device registration units is identical to a device retrieved from one of the others of the device registration units, based on common points of attributes of the retrieved devices.

Abstract: A display device composed of:

Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a thermoplastic, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.

Abstract: A sulfonated polyester-siloxane resin derived, for example, from at least one organic diol monomer, at least one organic diacid monomer or at least diester monomer, at least one carbinol or carboxy terminated polydimethylsiloxane, and at least one ion salt of a sulfonated difunctional monomer.

Abstract: An integrated sheet compiler/stacker system with reduced sheet roll-over or other jam problems, especially where the stacker is an elevator stacking tray or mailbox bin which moves relative to the compiler, with a gap therebetween, and partially shares the sheet set compiling area. For the first sheet of a set being compiled, a dual mode compiler set eject drive roller nips system is closed and that first sheet lead edge area is fed thereby partially out of the compiler towards the adjacent stacker tray or mailbox bin, with improved corrugated and/or more planer sheet extension support. Then that first sheet is reverse fed back into the compiler for positive compiling. Those set eject nips are opened for the compiling of the subsequent sheets of that same set (for which the first sheet provides a smooth gap bridge), then they close again to eject the entire compiled set and receive the first sheet of the next set.

Abstract: An image transfer apparatus with the capacity to reduce or clean wire history. The cleaning is performed by supplying a voltage burst to shift, relative to nominal, the D.C. component of the electrode bias relative to the electrical bias of the donor member during the movement of the inter-imaging region through the development zone. A voltage shift may also be applied to electrically bias the donor member relative to the photoreceptor belt during the movement of the inter-imaging region through the development zone. These voltage shifts may be conducted individually or simultaneously.