Abstract: A system for cleaning and treating a printhead includes (a) a movable carriage having affixed to a base of the movable carriage a cleaning blade and an absorptive pad, (b) a low vapor pressure organic solvent, the low vapor pressure organic solvent is deliverable to the absorptive pad via a pump, the low vapor pressure organic solvent has a vapor pressure lower than water and (c) a carriage moving mechanism that moves the carriage so that the cleaning blade and the absorptive pad pass over the printhead.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire information included in a video and/or information attached to the video, determine, for each viewer who views the video, a permitted part of the video that the viewer is permitted to view, based on the acquired information, and generate, for the viewer, control information for causing the permitted part corresponding to the viewer to be played back.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer second charged images superposed with one another onto a holding surface of a recording medium on which at least one first charged image has been electrostatically held and a static eliminating unit disposed upstream from the transfer unit in a transport direction of the recording medium and configured to remove static electricity from the recording medium electrostatically holding the at least one first charged image.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses methods and systems for handling content of a document based on one or more identifiers. The method includes receiving the document having content marked using one or more starting identifiers and corresponding one or more ending identifiers, the content marked between each starting identifier and corresponding ending identifier indicates content for one of: extraction, deletion, replacement and sharing, the content in the document is marked using braille symbols. The content is marked using an erasable marking device without affecting the document. A selection of a function to be performed on the marked content is received. The document is scanned to generate a scanned document. The scanned document is analyzed to identify the one or more starting identifiers and the one or more ending identifiers. Based on the selection of the function to be performed on the marked content, perform one of: extraction, deletion, replacement and sharing.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an exposed area ratio of the magnetic particles is 0.1% or more and 4.0% or less, an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine, for each viewer who views a video, a permitted part of the video that the viewer is permitted to view, and generate, for the viewer, an image representing part of the video and/or a video representing part of the video from the permitted part corresponding to the viewer.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) printer includes a tool configured to extrude a material onto a surface to produce a 3D object. The 3D printer also includes a first movement device configured to move the tool in a first direction while the material is being extruded. The 3D printer also includes a first sensor configured to measure a first parameter of the first movement device as the first movement device moves the tool in the first direction.

Abstract: An apparatus changes the temperature of thermoplastic material in an extruder head to reduce the time for producing an object. The apparatus includes a cooling device located near the one or more nozzles of the extruder head to change the temperature of the thermoplastic material extruded by the extruder head. The apparatus cools the thermoplastic material to enhance the formation of exterior object features. A heater can also be positioned near the nozzle zone to heat the thermoplastic material to reduce the time for raising the viscosity of the thermoplastic material for forming interior regions of the object.

Abstract: An electronic system for identifying an article can include a printed memory having a plurality of contact pads electrically coupled to a plurality of landing pads positioned on a first side of a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate. The plurality of landing pads can be electrically coupled to a plurality of endless, concentric contact lines positioned on a second side of the PCB substrate through a plurality of vias that extend through a thickness of the PCB substrate and a plurality of traces that electrically couple the plurality of vias with the plurality of landing pads. To perform a memory operation on the printed memory, contact probes of a reader are physically and electrically contacted with the plurality of concentric contact lines. In some implementations, the memory operation can be performed on the printed memory irrespective of a rotational orientation of the printed memory relative to the reader.

Abstract: Methods, Apparatus, Devices and Systems herein load a firing distance into a distance counter of a printing device. The firing distance is the distance from the current position of a printhead of the printing device to a marking location on a substrate and the distance is calculated based on an angular encoder operatively associated with a roller used to transport a marking media to the printhead for marking. These devices and methods count the firing distance in angular distance increments as a function of the encoder angular position to correct for encoder roller runout using the distance counter, based on relative movement of the substrate and printhead. When the distance counter reaches the last discrete distance increment corrected for encoder roller runout of the firing distance, these devices and methods load the fractional remaining distance of the firing distance into a time counter of the printing device.

Abstract: According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided process and apparatus to analyze imaging problems including but not limited to detecting defects of an imaging substrate useful in a Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) process. Data from the at least one imaging sensor may be used to: compensate for irregularities in a substrate deposited layer; compensate for irregularities in the printed layer, such as missing jet correction; reject a layer, the layer being scrapped and re-printed; pause the print job so that maintenance or service may be performed; or provide traceability data for proof-of-work, forensic, diagnostic, or other purposes. Depending on system architecture and design goals, the imaging sensor may be employed prior to or subsequent to the deposition of a printed layer.

Abstract: A method for executing a function on a saved job stored on a multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the method is executed by a processor and includes receiving a selection of the saved job stored on the MFD, presenting an option to print and at least one additional output function, receiving a selection of the at least one additional output function, and executing the output function on the saved job.

Abstract: An impregnation device includes an impregnation unit, a first supply unit, a second supply unit, and a supply controller. The impregnation unit impregnates a bundle of transported continuous fibers with a resin mixture. The first supply unit supplies a resin of a first composition to the impregnation unit. The second supply unit supplies a resin of a second composition that is different from the resin of the first composition to the impregnation unit. The supply controller controls an amount of resin supplied from the first supply unit and the second supply unit to the impregnation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image and item information, the read image being an image obtained by reading a paper medium including plural documents, the item information being information of an item specified by a user from among plural items contained in the documents; extract a character string from the read image, the character string being associated with the item information; if a character string contained in a page of the read image and extracted from the page differs from a character string extracted from the previous page immediately preceding the page, set a split position, the split position being a position at which to split out a portion of the read image as a set of documents, the portion being a portion of the read image from a page where extraction has begun to the previous page; and output the read image split in accordance with the split position.

Abstract: A customer management apparatus includes a detector that detects occurrence of a failure, memory that stores customer information, and a processor. The processor is configured to, by running a program, calculate a number of accesses made by each customer at time of occurrence of a failure when the detector detects the occurrence of the failure, and output, based on the number of accesses, priorities of customers who are to be taken care of when a failure occurs, the priorities being stored in the memory.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in response to a certain operation on document information representing a document file presented on a screen, transmit content of the document file to another apparatus registered in advance, with a screen smaller than that of the information processing apparatus or with no screen, based on a type of the another apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire biological information on a user, and output information that indicates a content of a process performed in accordance with an operation by the user in a case where the biological information indicates an anxious psychological state when the process is completed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive an instruction to execute a service by utterance, and perform control to present execution information regardless of whether or not a setting for presenting the execution information is performed, the execution information being information indicating an execution result of the received service.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first authentication terminal that has an authentication function of authenticating a first user, a second authentication terminal that has an authentication function of authenticating a second user, a device that has an authentication function of authenticating the device, and an authentication server that performs authentication using a registered authentication function. The authentication server registers the authentication function of the first authentication terminal on a basis of an operation of the first user. When authentication using the first authentication terminal is requested through the device, the authentication server authenticates the first user and registers the authentication function of the device.

Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) object printer includes a surface treatment system configured to treat layers of an object being formed by the printer with a moving ultraviolet (UV) laser. The movement of the laser is controlled with a scanning mirror system and the spot size of the laser is reduced with a focus lens having a numerical aperture in a range of about 0.5 to about 1.0.