Abstract: A crosslinkable charge transport layer material for a photoconductor includes at least one poly(arylene ether alcohol), at least one polyisocyanate crosslinking agent and at least one charge transport material dispersed in a solvent. The crosslinkable charge transport layer material is crosslinked following application of the coating solution to the photoconductor. The photoconductor including such crosslinked charge transport layer exhibits excellent wear resistance so as to have long life, thereby reducing the cost of electrophotographic printing machines employing such photoconductors therein.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for forming a uniform layer of liquid developer which apparatus includes, for example, a coater for depositing liquid developer on a first movable substrate to form a first toner layer; a second movable substrate for contacting the first toner layer on the first substrate to form a uniformly thin second toner layer on the first substrate, wherein the directional movement of the first movable substrate surface is contrary to the directional movement of the second movable substrate surface, and wherein at least one of the first substrate surface and the second substrate surface conforms to an opposing surface; and a photoactive member for receipt and formation of latent image thereon and for receipt of a toner layer for development of the latent image by the toner layer.

Abstract: A recursive dilation method and apparatus reduces the boundary artifacts occurring in hybrid compression. Documents containing both pictures and text are most efficiently compressed using a first compression standard for the picture region and a second compression standard for the text region, and thus inherently produce boundary blocks of both types, but such boundary blocks are most efficiently compressed when they contain only picture data and completely contain picture data, or only text data and completely contain text data. The non-picture data or non-text data in such boundary blocks can be considered “missing” data. The recursive dilation method and apparatus assigns the values of the boundary pixels to the neighboring pixels which have missing data.

Abstract: A printer for generating an image on a media sheet has a printer body with a media path extending from a media supply in a downstream direction to a media exit. An output tray and a media ejection mechanism are connected to the printer body adjacent the media exit. The ejection mechanism has a number of drive roller pairs, each of which includes a first roller and a second roller contacting each other at a nip defining a nip plane. The first rollers of the respective roller pairs are coaxial with each other, and the second rollers of the respective roller pairs are coaxial with each other. The nips of the drive roller pairs occupy a common plane, and the drive roller pairs are spaced apart from each other to define a gap. The ejection mechanism includes at least one corrugation roller positioned in the gap, rotatable on a corrugation roller axis, and having a curved surface portion displaced from the nip plane.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of toner by, for example (i) generating by emulsion polymerization in the presence of an initiator a first resin latex emulsion; (ii) generating in the presence of an oil soluble initiator by solution polymerization a second resin latex; (iii) mixing (ii) with a colorant; (iiib) mixing the resin latex emulsion of (i) with the resin/colorant mixture of (iii) to provide a blend of a resin and colorant; (iv) adding an aqueous inorganic cationic coagulant solution of a metal salt and optionally an organic cationic coagulant to the resin/colorant blend of (iiib); (v) heating at a temperature of from about 5° C. to about 10° C. below the resin Tg of (i), to form aggregate particles; (vi) adjusting the pH of (v) by the addition of a base; (vii) heating the aggregate particles of (v) at temperatures of from about 5° C. to about 50° C. above the Tg of the resin of (i), followed by the addition of an acid.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for improving the quality of a printed image by first automatically determining the gamma (&ggr;) of an image, and then adjusting the &ggr; of the printer, if necessary, to correspond to that of the image. Thus, if an image has a &ggr; of 2, the &ggr; of the printer will be adjusted from approximately 1 (its normal &ggr;), to approximately 2 (i.e., corresponding to that of the image). To detect the &ggr; difference problem, the invention detects a shift in saturated colors towards higher digital counts. Then, through mapping of the color space from three dimensions to two dimensions and cross-plotting values of saturation and luminance, a cumulative histogram plot of luminance is developed. The histogram displays the 256 luminance bands, arranged in one of eight bands, and normalized from zero to one. A threshold value is established for the cumulative histogram plot and the value of the cumulative histogram is compared to the threshold.

Abstract: A liquid ink printing system for printing images having different grayscales through control of a printhead carriage velocity and the number of drops deposited per pixel location. The liquid ink printing system prints from print data an image on a recording medium including pixel locations being deposited with liquid ink drops. The printing system includes a printhead, including a plurality of drop ejectors, for depositing the liquid ink drops, a scanning carriage, coupled to the printhead, for moving the printhead across the recording medium, and a print driver, operatively coupled to the scanning carriage and to the printhead, for controlling the scanning carriage to move at a plurality of velocities, each of the plurality of velocities being associated with one of a plurality of grayscales. Each of the plurality of grayscales is characterized by a maximum number of ink drops deposited at one of the pixel locations.

Abstract: A toner composition comprised of resin, pigment, optional charge additive and a flow aid surface additive comprised of hydrophobic silica of a size diameter of from about 5 to about 40 nanometers, and which silica has been treated with a long chain aliphatic alcohol.

Abstract: A toner comprised of resin, colorant and a coated silica, and wherein said silica has a primary particle size of about 25 nanometers to about 55 nanometers, and an aggregate size of about 225 nanometers to about 400 nanometers, and said coating is comprised of a mixture of an alkylsilane and an aminoalkylsilane.

Abstract: A process for forming a dispersion including forming a mixture including agglomerates of primary particles, a film forming binder and a solvent for the binder, the primary particles having an average size of less than about 500 nanometers, applying sufficient heat energy to the mixture while stirring to disintegrate the agglomerates into separate primary particles having an average size of less than about 500 nanometers to form a dispersion substantially free of agglomerates, and slowly cooling the dispersion to maintain separation between the primary particles in the dispersion.

Abstract: A full-color latent image developing toner composed of toner particles containing a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a surface lubricant, and at least one kind of an external additive, wherein the toner contains at least about 3% the surface lubricant, the toner includes irregular-shaped particles of ML2/A≧125, and when the emission voltage caused by the carbon originated in the binder resin of the toner particles is X and the emission voltage caused by the element originated in the external additive is Y, and when the relationship between X(⅔) and Y are primary-regressed to the straight line passing through origin of a coordinate, the correlation factor of the element originated in at least one external additive is not less than 0.4. As the external additive, a titanium compound obtained by reacting TiO(OH)2 prepared by a wet method and a silane compound is preferably used.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for creating quality pictorial color images include a charging device for uniformly charging a photoconductive member of a first tri-level xerographic module to a predetermined voltage level; using a controller and a ROS device for creating tri-level latent electrostatic images including CAD image areas and DAD image areas having different voltage levels respectively; developing the CAD image areas and the DAD image areas with yellow (Y) and a first black (K1) marking materials respectively to form a first composite color separation image of a desired final pictorial image; transferring the first composite color separation image onto an intermediate transfer member; similarly forming and developing a second composite color separation image on a second tri-level xerographic module using Magenta (M) and a second black (K2) marking material; transferring the second composite color separation image, in registration with the first composite color separation image, onto the intermediate transfe

Abstract: A low cost inverter apparatus of includes a dual positionable, multi-function gate and a stationary baffle that guides sheets toward catch or output trays or work in conjunction with reversible rolls to direct the sheets into a duplex path. The dual positionable gate and stationary baffle have points thereon that are positioned to use the beam strength of the sheets to align the sheets with a duplex nip that feeds the sheet into the duplex path.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, comprising an imaging member with an electrostatic latent image formed thereon, said imaging member containing a surface capable of supporting marking material; an imaging device for generating the electrostatic latent image on said imaging member, wherein the electrostatic latent image includes image areas defined by a first charge voltage and non-image areas defined by a second charge voltage distinguishable from the first charge voltage; a marking material supply apparatus for depositing marking material on the surface of said imaging member to form a marking material layer thereon adjacent the electrostatic latent image on said imaging member; a charging source for selectively delivering charges to the marking material layer in an imagewise manner responsive to the electrostatic latent image on said imaging member to form a secondary latent image in the marking material layer having image and nonimage areas corresponding to the electrostatic latent image on said imaging member; a

Abstract: Disclosed is a process which comprises reacting a polymer of the general formula wherein x is an integer of 0 or 1, A is one of several specified groups, such as B is one of several specified groups, such as or mixtures thereof, and n is an integer representing the number of repeating monomer units, with a halomethyl alkyl ether, an acetyl halide, and methanol in the presence of a halogen-containing Lewis acid catalyst, thereby forming a halomethylated polymer.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided an apparatus for guiding a sheet in a stream of sheet progressing through a paper path of a printing machine. The apparatus includes an input feed mechanism for feeding the sheets in a first direction. The apparatus also includes a guide which is operably associated with the input feed mechanism for guiding the sheets along the first direction. The apparatus further includes a movable gate operably associated with the guide. The gate and the guide define a passageway therebetween for passing sheets therethrough. The passageway has a first width at a first position of the gate selected for passing sheets therethrough having a thickness less than a first thickness. The first width of the passageway is selected for inhibiting sheets therethrough having a thickness greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: The invention provides a data storage/playback device and method. The data storage/playback device includes at least one time-series data pickup device, a time-series data storage, at least one user input detector and a controller. The controller acts to control the storage and playback of time-series data. The controller further includes a correspondence-relationship storing section, a compression section, a condition-matching section and a playback section. The controller determines important intervals of time-series data and intervals of less important time-series data. Based on this determination, the compression section of the controller compresses the important interval time-series data using a different compression process from that of the less important time-series data. Thus, the important interval time-series data is maintained with high quality and storage space is conserved.

Abstract: Regardless of a relative installation position error between a light source and a photosensitive material, or of a deviation from a properly preset value of rotation speed of a photosensitive material, images are obtained with minimum loss of image quality and excellent reproducibility. The number m of light-emitting elements to make up a unit and the distance between adjacent pixels formed on the photosensitive surface are adjusted such that the width of the pixel groups is ⅓ mm or less, which is a period that the periodic image noise is not recognized as stripes.

Abstract: A coding apparatus and decoding apparatus for easily generating an adaptive Huffman code. A frequency counting element possesses a counter that counts the appearance frequency of a preset dominant symbol candidate included in an input data. A dominant symbol selecting unit selects from a frequency data, data having a larger frequency than a predetermined threshold value and sends the selected data to a code assigning element as a dominant symbol frequency data. A fixed code word memory stores a previously generated Huffman code and sends it to the code assigning element as a fixed code word data. The code assigning element generates a Huffman code for the dominant symbol and synthesizes the Huffman code and the fixed code word data stored in the fixed code word memory to obtain the Huffman code for the whole data. The input data is coded using the Huffman code and an intermediate symbol data. The intermediate symbol data and a Huffman code table data are sent in a coded state.