Abstract: A document set compiler and eject apparatus including a belt transport system as well as an output roll system, wherein the belt and rolls of each respective system operate in conjunction with one another to provide smooth and effective transport of the document set from a compiler tray to an output tray. In particular, the output rolls, located downstream from the belt, are driven at a speed substantially greater than the speed of the transport belts for actively removing the document set from the belts to prevent damage to the trail edge thereof. The compiler tray also includes a retard roll system for maintaining the registration of the document set as it is transferred from the transport belts to the output rolls.

Abstract: A method and apparatus perform vector error diffusion and result in reduced graininess of a color halftone image representing a continuous tone image. The method controls the output colors while reducing the visibility of the error diffusion pattern inherent in forming a bilevel image. Specifically, the method involves influencing the dot pattern correlation using vector error diffusion and takes into account the effects caused by the interactions of dot patters for all of the different color components.

Abstract: An erasable display medium comprising a substrate having thereon at least one liquid crystal polymer layer comprising a side chain type liquid crystal polymer which repeatedly and reversibly switches from a transparent state and a light-scattered state by the action of at least one of heat, an electrical field, and a magnetic field is disclosed, said side chain type liquid crystal polymer being a copolymer comprising a repeating unit represented by formula (I): ##STR1## and a repeating unit represented by formula (II): ##STR2## or a copolymer comprising a repeating unit represented by formula (III): ##STR3## and a repeating unit represented by formula (IV): ##STR4## wherein R.sup.a and R.sup.

Abstract: A computer terminal user interface control is provided for allowing input from an operators non-dominant hand. Force sensitive transducers are provided at right angles to one another. Forces applied to these transducers move a tool set to various sub-portions of a video display device. The user's dominant hand is then free to select from various sub-areas of the tool window positioned by the non-dominant hand in a simple and efficient manner.

Abstract: A sheet stripping device for stripping copy sheets from an arcuate imaging surface, including a support element and an electrically conductive stripping element coupled to an electrically biasing source. An electrical bias is applied to the stripping elements or fingers to suppress the build-up of toner on the stripping element so that large concentrations of toner are eliminated and minimal residue is left on the fingers as a thin film for preventing background contamination of the copy sheet.

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus for recognizing characters in a document by sequentially detecting one-character portions of images in a document image and by recognizing the character images of the one-character portions detected. The character recognition apparatus includes a character detecting section for detecting an image of one character from the document image; a character recognizing section for recognizing the detected image of one character and outputting a character code; and a control section for effecting control such that the character image of one character recognized by the character recognizing means is stored in correspondence with the character code obtained as a result of recognition, a comparison is made between the stored character image and the image of a newly detected character, and the character-code stored in correspondence with the relevant character image is read as a result of recognition in a case where the similarity of the images is sufficiently large.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a pagewidth array of buttable printheads reduces end channel damage. The wafer containing a plurality of arrays of channels is provided with V-grooves. A V-groove is positioned between each array. When the wafer is secured to a wafer containing heater plates, wafers are diced along the V-shaped grooves to reduce damage to the end channels of the array to improve print quality.

Abstract: A system for calibrating a digital scanner utilizes a calibration strip having reference information printed thereon and a machine readable encoded tag having characteristic values corresponding to the calibration strip reference information encoded thereon. A scanning system scans the calibration strip and the machine readable encoded tag to generate image data corresponding to scanned-in reference information and data corresponding to scanned-in characteristic values of the reference information. The correction values are then derived from the generated image data and the decoded characteristic values that accurately describe the desired image data.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing an active matrix liquid crystal displaying device having a plurality of thin film transistors using five masks. A plurality of gate electrodes are formed using a first mask. A plurality of etch stoppers are formed over the gate electrodes using a second mask. A plurality of chain electrodes and a plurality of source electrodes are formed using a third mask. A passivation layer including via holes is formed using a fourth mask. A plurality of pixel electrodes are formed using a fifth mask.

Abstract: Toners comprised of a mixture of a cyan toner, a magenta toner, a yellow toner, and a black toner each of said toners being comprised of resin and pigment, and wherein the pigment for the cyan toner is a .beta. type copper phthalocyanine, the pigment for the magenta toner is a xanthene silicomolybdic acid salt of Rhodamine 6G dye, the pigment for the yellow toner is an isoindoline, and the pigment for the black toner is carbon black.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image fixing device including a heat fusing roller with heating means inside and an elastic material layer on a peripheral surface of the heat fusing roller, the heat fusing roller being rotatably mounted, an endless belt movable in contact with the heat fusing roller, and a pressure applying member fixed and contacting the endless belt on the heat fusing roller and applying pressure to form a belt nip portion between the endless belt and the heat fusing roller.

Abstract: A laser optical system for scanning a laser beam using a rotary polygonal mirror made of plastics. In the laser optical system, a portion close to the edge on the side along the rotary direction of the mirror surface of the rotary polygonal mirror made of plastics is not used as an effective reflecting surface since the accuracy of this portion is difficult to be stabilized because of the problems caused in the process of molding. Due to the foregoing, a laser beam is always reflected on the effective reflecting surface close to the center of the rotary polygonal mirror, the accuracy of which is high. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the unevenness of writing in the laser optical system.

Abstract: An input/output connector module for connecting input and output devices to a multi-wire bus having a first stage. The first stage electrically connects directly to the multi-wire bus, and a second stage is supported on the first stage and carries an IC chip. The second stage includes electrical connections for connecting the input and output devices to the IC chip and for connecting the multi-wire bus to the IC chip for conveying the signals between the multi-wire bus and the input and output devices. The second stage further includes a substrate having positioning cavities for locating the second stage with respect to the first stage in a horizontal direction and the surface of the substrate includes cutout portions for locating the second stage with respect to the first stage in a vertical direction. The cutout portions are elongated strips along opposite sides of the substrate with one positioning cavity being semi-circular and disposed essentially in the middle of one of the elongated strips.

Abstract: The printing paper can be formed by applying a slight amount of paint including a white pigment having a given BET specific surface area onto at least one side surface of base paper having a given apparent density. Also, according to the printing paper, in a time T=L/S to be determined by the shortest inter-nozzle distance L of different colors of a multi-color ink-jet printer and a printing paper/head relative moving speed S, the ink absorbing capacity V of the printing paper according to a blister method satisfies the following equation: V.gtoreq.2ax.sup.2 /(0.0254).sup.2 (where a represents an amount of ink drop to be jetted out from a nozzle, and x represents definition). The present ink-jet printing method uses the above-mentioned printing paper.

Abstract: A full width array raster imaging interface for an ink jet printer. The raster imaging interface transforms raster information for printing by a thermal ink jet full width array printbar. The transformation includes dividing scan lines of the raster information into segments corresponding to the number of die in a printbar and to delay the printing of each subsequent segment by one scan line. The transformation is necessary since the printbar prints a single line of pixels in a burst of several banks or segments having a plurality of nozzles. The banks of nozzles are fired sequentially and the nozzles within a bank are fired simultaneously.

Abstract: An approach suited for use with an arrangement including an image processing apparatus and a server, with the server being disposed remotely of the image processing apparatus, is provided. In practice, a user accesses the remotely disposed server from the image processing apparatus by entering an appropriate personal identification number and selecting a job ticket from a directory listing the job tickets resident at the server. One of the job tickets is then selected and transmitted across the network from the server to the image processing apparatus. A job is then programmed at the image processing apparatus with the selected job ticket.

Abstract: An information recording device having a light source unit including a plurality of laser light sources which are substantially linearly arrayed and independently driven, a deflecting unit for periodically deflecting a plurality of beams of laser light emitted from the light source unit in a direction crossing that of an array of the beams, and an image forming optical system for focusing the plurality of laser beams from the deflecting unit on a photoreceptor. In the information recording device, optical units for reducing divergence of the laser beams are provided in connection with the laser light sources of the light source unit.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid ink printhead orifice plate for use in a liquid ink printhead and printer. The liquid ink orifice plate is formed of a thermal plastic resin which is stamped between an orifice plate mandrel which includes the ink carrying features and a flat mandrel. Once the orifice plate has been stamped, excess material is removed from the orifice plate to reveal ink carrying features of the stamped orifice plate. The orifice plate mandrel is formed by electroforming a mandrel on an etched silicon wafer which defines a plurality of ink carrying channels and ink reservoirs. The electroform mandrel can be made of any number of metals which includes nickel.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneously developing and transferring a liquid toner image. The method includes the steps of moving a photoreceptor including a charge bearing surface having a first electrical potential, applying a uniform layer of charge having a second electrical potential onto the charge bearing surface, and imagewise dissipating charge from selected portions on the charge bearing surface to form a latent image electrostatically, such that the charge-dissipated portions of the charge bearing surface have the first electrical potential of the charge bearing surface. The method also includes the steps of moving an intermediate transfer member biased to a third electrical potential that lies between said first and said second potentials, into a nip forming relationship with the moving imaging member to form a process nip.