Abstract: A printing apparatus prints an image on a recording medium unwound by an unwinder. The recording medium is wound around a first winding shaft in order from a beginning edge to an ending edge of the recording medium. The wound recording medium is rewound, and the rewound recording medium is wound around a second winding shaft in order from the ending edge to the beginning edge of the recording medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a developing unit, a fixing unit, a receiving unit, a paper setting unit, and a control unit. The fixing unit conveys paper on which a visible image is formed by the developing unit between a heating roller and a pressurizing roller to fix the visible image to the paper. The receiving unit receives a demand for smoothing-out of wrinkles of the paper. The paper setting unit sets paper to be subjected to smoothing-out of wrinkles. When the receiving unit receives the demand for smoothing-out of wrinkles, the control unit performs control so that the developing unit is not operated and the paper to be subjected to smoothing-out of wrinkles set in the paper setting unit is conveyed to the fixing unit.

Abstract: A bypass feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes an opening/closing unit opening and closing with respect to an apparatus body between a unit closed state and a unit open state, a bypass tray opening and closing with respect to the opening/closing unit between a tray closed state and a tray open state, a linkage including a flexible-member fixing member and connecting the opening/closing unit to the apparatus body, and a flexible member having one end fixed to the fixing member and the other end fixed to the bypass tray. When the opening/closing unit is changed to the unit open state while the bypass tray is rotated away from the opening/closing unit to the tray open state, the fixing member of the linkage shifts by pulling the flexible member to hold the bypass tray at a substantially horizontal line with respect to a sheet loading surface.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium, and an applying unit that causes powder included in a liquid mixture to be interposed between the recording medium and the image forming unit by applying the liquid mixture to the recording medium, or to the image forming unit which comes into contact with the recording medium, wherein the recording medium includes an image forming layer, an adhesive layer, and a base layer, and the liquid mixture includes the powder reducing adhesion of the adhesive layer and volatile liquid.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an input unit, a specifying unit, a storing unit, a printing unit, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The specifying unit specifies a number of sheets for printing image data pieces of a plurality of pages. The receiving unit receives a binding process execution instruction. When the sheets are printed in the reverse order and the printed sheets are bound, the printing unit had started the reverse order printing after all the image data pieces were stored. When (i) the sheets are to be printed in the reverse order and the binding process is set to be executed and (ii) it is determined, while the storing unit is storing the image data pieces, that the specified number of sheets exceeds the number of sheets that can be bound, the printing unit starts printing in the page order before all the image data pieces are stored.

Abstract: A roll sheet image forming apparatus includes an introduction opening and a guide plate. Instead of a continuous sheet held in an apparatus main body, a continuous sheet for option feeding provided at an outside is introduced into the apparatus main body through the introduction opening. The guide plate is for splicing a lead sheet and a continuous sheet. When feeding the continuous sheet, a feeding unit is pulled out from the apparatus main body, a lead sheet is set to be conveyable towards an image forming unit, the feeding unit is again accommodated in the apparatus main body, a front end of the continuous sheet is placed on the guide plate, a rear end of the lead sheet is placed on the guide plate through the introduction opening, the rear end and the front end are spliced by a bonding member and then the feeding unit operates.

Abstract: There is described a numbering device (1) for carrying out numbering in sheet-fed or web-fed numbering presses, the numbering device (1) comprising a numbering unit (6) with rotatable numbering wheels (7) carrying alpha-numerical symbols thereon, which numbering wheels (7) are disposed next to each other and rotate about a common rotation axis (17), the numbering device (1) further comprising electro-mechanical actuation means for setting the position of the numbering wheels (7). The electro-mechanical actuation means are entirely located within the numbering device (1) and are mechanically autonomous, the electro-mechanical actuation means comprising a plurality of independent driving means (15, 18-23; 23*) for actuating a corresponding plurality of the numbering wheels.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stamping a non-planar surface (14) of a body (1) with a transfer layer of a hot-stamping foil (5), in which a stamping region of the hot-stamping foil (5) is brought into abutment against the surface (14) of the body (1) and a heated stamping die (3) is pressed against the hot-stamping foil (5) and the surface (14) of the body (1) such that, in the stamping region, the transfer layer detaches from a support of the hot-stamping foil (5) and adheres to the surface (14) of the body (1). In the invention, the hot-stamping foil (5) is pre-heated in a region comprising the entire stamping region before the stamping procedure, in particular by a heating apparatus (6) which is insertable and withdrawable into the device.

Abstract: A curl correction apparatus that corrects a curl of a sheet includes: a hard roller that is disposed in the downstream in a sheet conveying direction of a heating apparatus; a soft roller that is disposed in the downstream in the sheet conveying direction of the heating apparatus; and a guide member that is disposed in the immediate upstream in the sheet conveying direction with respect to the hard roller, and guides the sheet; wherein a nip width in the sheet conveying direction of a nip portion between the hard roller and the soft roller is set to be narrower in a central portion in an axial direction than end portions in the axial direction, and the guide member is configured to protrude in the central portion in the axial direction toward the downstream in the sheet conveying direction from the both end portions in the axial direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to the invention(s) has the following feature(s): When first and second recording materials have a first length and a sum of the first length and an interval is less than a distance from a regulation position, where an accommodation unit regulates a leading edge of a recording material, to a second position, a feeding unit feeds a second recording material in accordance with a timing in which a first detecting unit detects the first recording material. When the first and second recording materials have a second length that is longer than the first length and a sum of the second length and the interval is greater than or equal to the distance from the regulation position to the second position, the feeding unit feeds the second recording material in accordance with a timing in which the second detecting unit detects the first recording material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body having an opening, an image forming unit, storage units that can store a sheet, and a moving unit provided in each storage unit. The moving unit moves the stored sheet and then stops it in an exposed state where the sheet is partly exposed, from the opening, to a body outside. Where a first sheet and a second sheet, stored in a storage unit different from where the first sheet is stored, contact and then are exposed to the outside, when a first sheet moving distance to the exposed state and a second sheet moving distance to the exposed state are different, the moving unit changes a first sheet movement start timing relative to that of the second sheet or changes a first sheet moving speed relative to that of the second sheet, based on moving distances of the first and second sheets.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects the number of manuscript sheets; a calculating unit which calculates the anticipated number of sheets of recording media based on the detected number of sheets; a determining unit which determines whether the anticipated number of sheets calculated exceeds the predetermined number of sheets; and a bookbinding unit which binds multiple recording media, wherein the calculating unit calculates the anticipated number of sheets, further including a cover arranged on the outside of the multiple recording media which are stacked in an overlapping manner, and wherein the bookbinding unit binds multiple recording media without arranging the cover on the outside of the multiple recording media when an image is not formed on the cover if the determining unit determines that the anticipated number of sheets exceeds the predetermined number of sheets.

Abstract: A method for forming fine patterns includes (S1) closely contacting a cliche-forming film to a hard mold concavely patterned, thereby making a disposable cliche; (S2) coating an elastic blanket cylinder with ink or resin; (S3) compressing the elastic blanket cylinder to the disposable cliche to remove ink or resin on a surface of the elastic blanket cylinder at a portion contacting with a relatively protruded embossed portion of the disposable cliche; and (S4) transcribing ink or resin remaining on the surface of the elastic blanket cylinder to a substrate. This method allows simple and fast works and greatly reduces costs by adopting a disposable cliche that may be easily installed and removed. Also, this method may be effectively utilized to form a fine pattern of an electronic device or a display device such as color filter and electrode.

Abstract: An apparatus for mapping liner wear of a bearing around the circumference of the bearing which includes a rotary indexer that can hold the bearing, a shaft, a force applying mechanism, a rotating mechanism, a digital displacement indicator, and a recorder.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image formation unit that forms an image on continuous paper; a paper conveyance unit that conveys the paper through a conveyance path; a deviation correction unit that corrects deviation of the continuous paper by moving the paper on the conveyance path in a paper feed intersecting direction; a paper position measurement unit that measures a paper position in the paper feed intersecting direction of the paper on the conveyance path; and a control unit that controls the image formation unit and the deviation correction unit, wherein during stop of a conveyance operation, the control unit moves the paper to a predetermined position in the paper feed intersecting direction by deviation correction by the deviation correction unit, and during the conveyance operation, the control unit decides an image formation position in a main scanning direction in the image formation.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus of the invention has: an ejecting unit that is capable of receiving a sheet on which a toner image has been heated and fixed, and ejecting the sheet for a predetermined normal ejecting time; and a processing unit that processes the sheet ejected by the ejecting unit according to obtained sheet information, wherein the ejecting unit ejects the sheet for an ejecting time longer than the normal ejecting time.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a printer configured to print the display image on a first surface of paper in a case of simplex printing; a curl suppression image determination section configured to determine, in simplex printing case, a printing position and a printing pattern of a curl suppression image for suppressing the curl of the paper caused by the display image based on an analysis result of a display image analysis section which analyzes the printing range and the density of the display image for each page; and a curl-preventive image addition setting section configured to set image information of the printing position and the printing pattern of the curl suppression image which is determined by the curl suppression image determination section and is supposed to be printed on a second surface of the paper with color erasable material by the printer section.

Abstract: Methods and systems for flexographic printing are described and include curing of material to be printed while the material is in contact with both a feature of a flexographic printing plate and a recipient substrate. The systems and method are useful in preventing slippage between the feature and the recipient substrate, and are particularly useful when printing at high resolution.

Abstract: A configurable keyboard. The configurable keyboard includes a base with a top face, and a top edge. A position adjustable panel containing keyboard keys. The position adjustable panel is attached to the base by a position adjustment device. The position adjustment device includes a shaft and a first connector. The shaft is attached, towards a bottom end, to the base. The first connector connects the position adjustable panel to the shaft.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance device includes: a motor; an ON-OFF control unit, which selectively executes an ON control and an OFF control on the motor; a rotation control unit, which selectively executes a first-direction control and a second direction control; a jam detecting unit; an interlock switch; and a setting unit. The first-direction control sets a rotation direction of the motor as a first direction when the motor is rotated by the ON control. The second direction control sets the rotation direction of the motor as a second direction opposite to the first direction when the motor is rotated by the ON control. The setting unit sets the ON-OFF control unit to perform the ON control and sets the rotation control unit to perform the second direction control when the jam is detected by the jam detecting unit and the interlock switch has been turned off.