Abstract: An electrostatographic printing machine having an imaging member with a surface voltage potential and a control system having changeable set point parameters to provide a dual level of control of the voltage potential. A compensator responsive to a reference signal and the surface voltage potential provides one input signal and one level of control to a summing nod and a look up table responsive to the changing of the set point pa provides a second input signal and a second level of control to the summing node to adjust the surface voltage potential. Two levels of table look up feed forward adjustment are also provided for developer control. Within one use of some form of look up tables to move one operating point by varying nominal values a state space control model of one electrostatic printing machine is developed. Control model is used to design good process loop compensators.

Abstract: A method of storing and retrieving a customized interface control from a user display. The user display includes an array of pathway buttons and is interconnected to plural devices on a network. The method includes displaying and activating a job programming button to display programming options including save and save as options, engaging the save option to store the customized interface control in a general saved interface control category or store the customized interface control under a user defined reference. Included are techniques for expanding the features of selected machines on the network and creating selected multi-function operations not previously available.

Abstract: A process which comprises heating at a temperature of from about -60.degree. to about 31.degree. C. a mixture of liquid carbon dioxide, metal or metal oxide, and a surface treating component, and optionally removing carbon dioxide.

Abstract: The printing operation of an ink jet printer is controlled based on the density of the image to be printed. Using the density, a required drying time for each swath of printed matter is determined based on the image density. Also using the density, a maximum print frequency of firing the ink jets is determined. The density is determined by filtering stored print data by dividing the print data into blocks and determining a maximum number of ON pixels in a block. Such filtering enables clusters of ON pixels to be detected thus providing a more accurate determination of the density.

Abstract: An imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate with a coating thereover and wherein the coating is comprised of resin, electrically conductive metal oxide particles, and insulative metal oxide particles, wherein each electrically conductive particle is substantially electrically isolated and separated from any other of the electrically conductive particles by the insulative particles.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of toner compositions comprising: forming a mixture comprised of at least one free radical reactive monomer, a colorant, a stabilizer compound containing a stable free radical reactive group, and a liquid vehicle; and heating the mixture from about 75.degree. to about 200.degree. C. to effect polymerization of said monomer, wherein there results stabilized core resin particles containing said colorant and wherein said stabilized core particles are stabilized by said stable free radical reactive stabilizer compounds being bonded directly to the core particles.

Abstract: Simulated photographic-quality prints are created using non-photographic imaging such as xerography and ink jet. Reverse or wrong reading toner images are formed on a transparent substrate which is adhered to a coated backing sheet. The backing sheet is coated with a polymer material which serves as an adhesive and has a glass transition temperature less than 55.degree. C. A second coating on the backing sheet which contacts the aforementioned polymer includes a hydrophilic polymer material having a melting point greater than 50.degree. C. and a luminescent material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a recording sheet which comprises (a) a substrate comprising a first paper ply, a second paper ply, and, situated between the first and second plies, a hydrophobic adhesive layer; (b) an image receiving coating situated on at least one surface of the substrate, said image receiving coating being suitable for receiving images of an aqueous ink and suitable for receiving images of an electrostatic toner composition, said coating comprising (1) a polymeric binder, (2) a dye fixative, and (3) an optional pigment.

Abstract: A system for measuring the mass of a sheet of material including an actuator, a position sensing system, and a tactile sensor system. The actuator imparts a known force to a sheet, moving it through to the position sensing system, which measures the sheet velocity at various points. Afterward, the sheet moves through the tactile sensor system, which determines the coefficient of friction of the sheet. Given these quantities, a controller can determine the mass of the sheet, which can be used alter the performance of a reproductive machine. A second embodiment of the mass measuring system includes an actuator, a position sensing system, and a subsystem for eliminating friction. The actuator applies a force to a sheet to move it into and through the subsystem. The position sensing system incorporated in the subsystem senses the acceleration of the sheet. Given this quantity, a controller can determine the mass of the sheet.

Abstract: A positively charged liquid developer comprised of a nonpolar liquid, thermoplastic resin particles, pigment, a charge director, and a charge control agent comprised of Rhodamine Y.

Abstract: A cleaning device for removing and collecting toner lest on the surface of a photoreceptor includes a housing, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the housing and a brush, provided on the outer surface of the rotary shaft, for scraping off toner from the surface of the photoreceptor, a bar-like member fastened at both ends thereof to the housing and positioned at a location where the bar-like member is flicked with upon the rotation of the brush, an auger, positioned at a predetermined location within the housing, for transporting the toner scraped off to a given direction, and the bar-like member being disposed so as to prevent the auger from being further moved from the predetermined position and from contacting with the brush.

Abstract: There is provided a calibration system for a deskewing and registering device for an electrophotographic printing machine. The method includes a.) moving a sheet from a first position to a second position along a paper path; b.) sensing the position of the sheet at the first position and the second position; c.) choosing a correction value to cause the sheet to change a lateral position from the first position to the second position; d.) repeating the moving, sensing, and choosing steps until a predetermined adjustment is made when moving the sheet from the first position to the second position to determine a proper calibration value.

Abstract: A method for managing a plurality of print jobs, including a step of creating, in memory, a package, the package including a first reference and a second reference with a first print job being operatively linked with the package by way of the first reference and a second print job being operatively linked with the package by way of the second reference. The method further includes programming the first print job with a first set of instructions and the second print job with a second set of instructions, the first set of instructions including a finishing instruction. In response to the creating and programming steps, a collated print set of the package is produced. The collated package print set includes a finished print set of the first print job, produced in accordance with the first set of instructions and a print set of the second print job, produced in accordance with the second set of instructions.

Abstract: A digital printing system includes a plurality of decomposers which operate simultaneously and independently. Each decomposer outputs page images of decomposed data at essentially random times. The page images from the decomposers are retained in a buffer until requested by a marker which controls the printer hardware. A buffer manager records where in the buffer each page image is stored, and a stream handle is assigned to every set of page images intended to form a multi-page document. When the marker requests a particular set of page images for printing, the marker invokes a stream handle. The buffer manager, receiving the stream handle, retrieves the necessary page images from recorded locations in the buffer.

Abstract: A flexible belt comprising a flexible support layer, at least one coating comprising a film forming polymer, and a seam having a bent shape extending from one edge of the belt to the opposite edge of the belt. The flexible electrostatographic imaging belt may be fabricated by providing a sheet having two parallel sides and two opposite ends having matching bent profiles, the sheet having a first major exterior surface opposite and parallel to a second major exterior surface, overlapping an edge of the first major exterior surface adjacent one of the ends onto an edge of the second major exterior surface adjacent the other one of the ends to form a overlapped joint in which the bent profiles of the opposite ends match, and permanently securing the ends to each other to form a seam having a bent shape. This seamed flexible electrostatographic imaging belt may be used in an electrostatographic imaging process.

Abstract: A dielectric image receiving member is disclosed which comprises a substrate layer, a porous plasma-sprayed dielectric layer formed on the surface of the substrate layer, and a dielectric polymeric coating material filling at least those pores opening at the surface of the oxide layer. Most preferably, the plasma-sprayed layer is a metal oxide and the coating material is a glass resin.

Abstract: A data unit group handling apparatus which handles a file system for storing a plurality of files defined by different kind of file formats, and at least one of the files is a data unit group which is defined by a predetermined file format, includes data units and can be located in any location in the file system. In the apparatus, at least one data unit group is retrieved from the file system in accordance with the file format, a selection instruction is received from a user to select at least one of the data unit group from the retrieved at least one data unit group, retrieval condition to retrieve at least one data unit is also received, and at least one of the data unit matching to the received retrieval condition from the at least one of the data unit group which is selected in accordance with the received selection instruction.

Abstract: A magnetic composition comprising nanocomposite particles comprising from about 0.001 to about 60 weight percent of magnetic nanocrystalline particles dispersed in from about 40 to about 99.999 weight percent of a discrete phase matrix, and a continuous phase matrix, wherein the discrete phase resides in interstices within the continuous phase matrix.

Abstract: A system for controlling use and distribution of digital works. The present invention allows the owner of a digital work to attach usage rights to their work. The usage rights define how the individual digital work may be used and distributed. Instances of usage rights are defined using a flexible and extensible usage rights grammar. Conceptually, a right in the usage rights grammar is a label associated with a predetermined behavior and conditions to exercising the right. The behavior of a usage right is embodied in a predetermined set of usage transactions steps. The usage transaction steps further check all conditions which must be satisfied before the right may be exercised. These usage transaction steps define a protocol for requesting the exercise of a right and the carrying out of a right.

Abstract: An extendable hypermedia system has a hypermedia data base for storing a hypermedia data, a data processor for executing modification of the data stored in the hypermedia data base and also for executing addition of the type of the associated data, a view processor for executing modification of a view corresponding to the data processed by the data processor and also for executing addition of the type of the associated view, a display for providing a data display, and a window system for executing display of the data corresponding to the view processed by the view processor on the display and also for informing the view processor of a data entered on the display. In the hypermedia system a programmer can arbitrarily add both data type and view type.