Abstract: A system is presented for transmitting document references or tokens between users of integrated wireless and wire-based communication services. The system includes workstations, files servers, printers and other devices coupled to a wire-based network. Mobile computing devices are coupled to the wire-based network through either IR (infrared) or RF (radio) transceiver gateways. Each mobile computing device appears to hold a user's collection of documents: the device is programmed to receive, transmit, and store document tokens. The system includes a token-enabled document server that uses digital signatures to provide secure transfer of document tokens between users of the mobile computing devices and email clients. The token-enabled document server operates independent of the identity of the holder of the document token. Only the issuer of the document token needs be registered with the signature based document server to properly authenticate document tokens.

Abstract: A system and method for tracking belts disposed on rollers in a photoreceptor apparatus. The system includes a movable, belt edge guide that operates in combination with an encoder, a belt edge sensor, a belt hole sensor for detecting a hole in the belt surface, wherein the profile of the edge of the belt is learned as a function of the belt position on the rollers. The encoder and belt hole sensor are used to actuate the edge guide system to compensate for the contours of the belt edge and to maintain a constant lateral position of the belt at any given point on the belt.

Abstract: An integrated information support system (IISS) uses a stand-alone, large capacity memory device, such as a CD ROM, to enhance the user interface of a copier system. The IISS, providing system users with access to vast quantities of graphical, textual, video and audio information, is a separately controlled system which may be integrated with the normal control functions of the copier system. Information is retrieved from the memory device and presented to a system user either spontaneously, on-demand, or in response to specific system conditions such as faults. In a preferred embodiment, an expert coach controls the presentation of information and is capable of monitoring user actions to, for example, ensure a suggested course of action is actually being followed. The IISS may advantageously share existing user interface facilities, such as the copier system's video monitor and button matrix.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transfuse member, an intermediate transfer member and a transfer member that electrostatically transfers a toner image from the intermediate transfer member to the transfuse member. The transfer member includes at least one temperature control device that maintains the transfer member within a predefined range. A controller assembly may be connected to the at least one temperature control device for extending the electrical life of the transfer member by maintaining the transfer member at a substantially constant resistivity.

Abstract: A method including: (a) dispensing an electrically conductive liquid into a contact member permeable to the liquid; (b) rubbing the contact member and a surface against each other, at a contact length greater than a tangential contact length, to release the liquid from the contact member to wet the surface with the electrically conductive liquid in a layer ranging in thickness from about 1 to about 100 micrometers; and (c) electrifying the liquid at any time effective for imparting an electrical charge to the surface.

Abstract: A primer composition of an organic titanate and an alkoxysilane achieves a strong bond between a silicone rubber and a fluoro-containing compound, thereby enabling a composite of these materials to have excellent adhesion. The composite is most useful as a fuser member in a copying device, the silicone rubber being upon an aluminum core. The primer composition preferably includes a solvent such as methyl isobutyl ketone that swells the silicone rubber, thereby permitting the primer composition to penetrate into the silicone rubber layer and further enhance the bond strength.

Abstract: Methods and Systems for analyzing data of a user viewing a display of dynamic hypermedia pages through a browser including monitoring and storing location and time of the user's gaze as eyetracker data, processing the eyetracker data into fixation data, monitoring and storing content of the displayed pages into a memory, restoring the displayed pages from the memory, mapping the fixations data onto the restored pages to thereby identify elements-of-regard, and storing the identified elements-of-regard in an elements-of-regard database.

Abstract: A glass substrate printed wiring board is used as the printhead for electric paper. Printing electrodes are formed at the edge of the glass substrate. Signals are generated by a driver circuit and conducted by traces to the electrodes to generate an electric field to rotate the bichromal rotating elements of the electric paper to form black or white pixels.

Abstract: A data encoding device and a data decoding device. A data encoding device refers to first and second encoding tables to search for a code word correlated with encoding data. One of the code words is selected according to predetermined criteria. When the selected code word requires additional information, additional information is generated. A data decoding device refers to the first and second encoding tables and retrieves a data element from at least one of the tables. When additional information is available, original data is calculated based on the data element and the additional information. When additional information is not available, the retrieved data element is output without modification as original data.

Abstract: A process for producing a magnetic head attaining high speed and high density recording, excellent in reproducibility and relatively inexpensive is provided as well as a magnetic head and a magnetic disk unit. A lower yoke film, an insulating film supporting a thin film coil and an upper yoke film connected at a back end thereof to a back end of the lower yoke film are consecutively piled on a back end surface of a flying slider, and a magnetic pole films and a deposited at a tip end of at least one of the lower yoke film and the upper yoke film, so as to form a magnetic gap. The gap of the surface of the magnetic pole facing a magnetic recording medium is determined by the working pattern of the thin film; therefore, a magnetic pole having a high aspect ratio can be easily produced.

Abstract: Methods of patterning resists and structures including the patterned resists are disclosed. A patterned, multi-transmissive mask is used during patterning of resists to control exposure at areas of the resist at which features having different detail are desired. Exposure is varied in more finely patterned and more grossly patterned areas of the resist. The patterned resists have a high degree of topographical uniformity.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling a xerographic printer includes a subsystem for carrying out a function of the xerographic printer and affecting an electric field of a component. The system and method further include a bias transfer roll voltage operated in a constant current mode, and a voltage evaluator coupled to the biased transfer roll for measuring a change in a level of voltage of the bias transfer roll as the component affected by the subsystem passes through a nip region near the bias transfer roll for determining operability of the subsystem.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ink composition which comprises water, a colorant, and a lighffastness agent which is a polysiloxane having thereon a hydrophilic moiety and a lighffastness moiety. Also disclosed are printing processes using the ink.

Abstract: An airtight sampling apparatus for effectively and accurately sampling a waste solution including volatile organic compounds (VOC's) from a main waste solution conduit having a first pressure P1, is provided.

Abstract: A method for ordering one or more consumables for a device includes selecting one or more of the consumables used in the device to order using the device and submitting the order for the selected consumables using the device to one or more suppliers. A device for ordering one or more consumables for the device includes an ordering system in the device and a communication system in the device. The ordering system providing a menu of one or more of the consumables to select to place an order. The communication system submits the order for the selected consumables when completed.

Abstract: An electronic device containing a polythiophene of Formula (I) 1

Abstract: At the print mode change time, at the recording time in the upper and lower margins of a recording medium, or the like, a head position management section causes horizontal scanning to be executed as many times as the number of print divisions while a move is made in a vertical scanning direction a minute move width at a time. At this time, the print width in each horizontal scanning is increased or decreased under the control of the head position management section. An image preparation section is made to transfer image data as wide as the print width from image memory to a band buffer in accordance with the control. A head section forms an image based on the print data in the band buffer under the control of a head control section. A move is made in the vertical scanning direction a minute move width at a time, whereby recording of one line with the same print element of the head section is lessened and the effect of the variations in the print elements can be excluded.

Abstract: An ink recorder and a method of tracking ink ejections from nozzles of a printhead in the ink recorder to bypass or reduce maintenance of the nozzles is provided. In one aspect, the ink recorder includes: a printhead with a plurality of ink ejecting nozzles arranged in a single column; a print controller with a first and a second raster buffer; a first and a second stroke buffer; a DMA channel; a print engine; and a maintenance controller. In another aspect, the method controls printhead nozzle maintenance during a print job in an ink recorder that prints an image using a plurality of color inks, wherein the single column of nozzles in the printhead includes a segment of active nozzles associated with each color ink and one or more inactive nozzles between each adjacent segment.

Abstract: A charge transport composition containing aromatic amines with crosslinkable silanes as represented by the formula wherein A represents a hole transporting aromatic tertiary amine moiety; L1 and L2 represents charge such as a divalent group; X represents oxygen or an imino group; Y represents an alkoxy group, or a halide atom; R is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and n represents the number of repeating segments.

Abstract: An image quality analysis system is provided for image output devices, such as printers and copiers, that overcomes problems with differences in analysis results caused by use of different image input devices. This is achieved by computing a differential transfer function that makes subsequent analysis device independent. Moreover, the analysis is performed on an image that has been blurred to also reflect absolute image quality metrics as seen by a human observer. By determining the resolving characteristics of the input scanner, the scanned image can be processed, with little or no artifacts, to resemble the image as perceived by a human observer, while at the same time eliminating differences that would arise when using a scanner having a different spatial resolving power.