Abstract: A method for setting an address for a service blade includes: receiving a first IP address setting command in an Ethernet protocol format; converting the first IP address setting command into a second IP address setting command in a platform management interface protocol format, where the first and second IP address setting commands include a slot ID of a slot into which a service blade is inserted and IP address data corresponding to the slot ID; and sending the second IP address setting command to the service blade corresponding to the slot ID over a platform management interface network. An IP address setting command is sent to the service blade, which implements a function of setting an IP address for the service blade, thereby avoiding a problem of an additionally increased cost because of an external device in use.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for operating an image forming device in a first processor-controlled toner control operating mode to maintain a substantially constant dispense rate of toner material from a toner source or bottle. The disclosed systems and methods improve toner material dispensing from the toner source or bottle in the image forming device by transitioning to a second processor-controlled toner control operating mode as an amount of toner material in the toner source or bottle is determined to be in a depleted, or nearly-exhausted, state. The disclosed systems and methods compensate for a determined decrease in a toner dispense rate occurring as an amount of toner material remaining in the toner source or bottle is nearly depleted. One or more toner control parameters, including a pixel count gain, are modified in the second processor-controlled toner control operating mode.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for operating an image forming device in a first processor-controlled toner control operating mode to maintain a substantially constant dispense rate of toner material from a toner source or bottle. The disclosed systems and methods improve toner material dispensing from the toner source or bottle in the image forming device by transitioning to a second processor-controlled toner control operating mode as an amount of toner material in the toner source or bottle is determined to be in a depleted, or nearly-exhausted, state. The disclosed systems and methods compensate for a determined decrease in a toner dispense rate occurring as an amount of toner material remaining in the toner source or bottle is nearly depleted. One or more toner control parameters, including a pixel count gain, are modified in the second processor-controlled toner control operating mode.

Abstract: A tandem printing system for imaging a media web includes a first and second print engines. A controller identifies a change in a position over time of a bottom of the media web in a loop box that is placed in the media path between the first and second print engines. The controller identifies an effective diameter of a drive roller in one of the print engines with reference to the change in position of the bottom of the media web. The controller modifies a rotational velocity of the drive roller with reference to the effective diameter to maintain velocity of the media web at a predetermined level and control a position of the bottom of the media web in the loop box.

Abstract: A tandem printing system for imaging a continuous web of material includes a first printer serially coupled to a second printer wherein the speed of the web can be adjusted to maintain image quality and to compensate for a change in a diameter of a driver drum. The change in the diameter of the driver drum can be derived from characteristics of the printing system including the amount of sag of the continuous web of material moving between the first printer and the second printer.

Abstract: A method of duplex printing forms on a media web. The method includes identifying leading edges of a first side of the forms being printed in a first print zone and identifying leading edges of a second side of the forms being printed in a second print zone. The leading edges in the first print zone being identified with reference to a form length variation parameter and a drift parameter and the leading edges in the second print zone being identified with reference to another form length variation parameter and another drift parameter based on identification of leading edges in the first print zone.

Abstract: A method of printhead registration in a duplex printer enables process direction registration of a first group of printheads and a second group of printheads in a single print zone that print first and second sides of a print medium concurrently. The first group of printheads is registered to a first reference printhead based on the process direction locations of a first plurality of marks printed by the first group of printheads at a first time between printed images on the first side of the print medium. The second group of printheads is registered to a second reference printhead based on the process direction locations of a second plurality of marks printed by the second group of printheads at a second time between printed images on the second side of the print medium.

Abstract: A method of printhead registration in a duplex printer enables process direction registration of a first group of printheads and a second group of printheads in a single print zone that print first and second sides of a print medium concurrently. The first group of printheads is registered to a first reference printhead based on the process direction locations of a first plurality of marks printed by the first group of printheads at a first time between printed images on the first side of the print medium. The second group of printheads is registered to a second reference printhead based on the process direction locations of a second plurality of marks printed by the second group of printheads at a second time between printed images on the second side of the print medium.

Abstract: A method for setting an address for a service blade includes: receiving a first IP address setting command in an Ethernet protocol format; converting the first IP address setting command into a second IP address setting command in a platform management interface protocol format, where the first and second IP address setting commands include a slot ID of a slot into which a service blade is inserted and IP address data corresponding to the slot ID; and sending the second IP address setting command to the service blade corresponding to the slot ID over a platform management interface network. An IP address setting command is sent to the service blade, which implements a function of setting an IP address for the service blade, thereby avoiding a problem of an additionally increased cost because of an external device in use.

Abstract: A method of duplex printing forms on a media web. The method includes identifying leading edges of a first side of the forms being printed in a first print zone and identifying leading edges of a second side of the forms being printed in a second print zone. The leading edges in the first print zone being identified with reference to a form length variation parameter and a drift parameter and the leading edges in the second print zone being identified with reference to another form length variation parameter and another drift parameter based on identification of leading edges in the first print zone.

Abstract: A fuel injection system that includes an electronic controller that senses engine speed, calculates energy required by an engine existing control unit based upon a signal sent to one or more diesel injection pressure and timing actuators and a plurality of gaseous fuel injectors that respond to commands from the electronic controller and inject gaseous fuel through an injection tube installed in an intake adapter plate fixed between an intake manifold and an engine block. The fuel injection system also includes an on and off switch assembly equipped with a self-diagnostic capability that lights an LED light when a fault in the port injector system is sensed and a blended fuel injector control unit installed between an ECM and a plurality of diesel fuel injectors.

Abstract: A tandem printing system for imaging a continuous web of material includes a first printer serially coupled to a second printer wherein the speed of the web can be adjusted to maintain image quality and to compensate for a change in a diameter of a driver drum. The change in the diameter of the driver drum can be derived from characteristics of the printing system including the amount of sag of the continuous web of material moving between the first printer and the second printer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for gradually adjusting a look-up table (LUT) for a print engine in order to improve the regulation of color quality of printed images. The LUT is updated so that a target value for a particular color is achieved. This corrects for a measured or predicted change in a tone reproduction curve. Depending upon the severity of the required adjustment, a series of incremental adjustments rather than a single adjustment can be made to the LUT table over a period of time. Each adjustment in the series can be limited to a predetermined maximum delta so that any corrections made to the LUT following the generation and evaluation of one test image and before the generation and evaluation of the next test image for the same target color are gradually and imperceptibly implemented (i.e., unnoticeable).

Abstract: A system and method for printing target colors includes a print-engine interface and a neural network component. The print-engine interface is in operative communication with a print engine of a printing system. The neural network component is calibrated to the print engine for printing a target color on a substrate. The neural network is in operative communication with the print-engine interface and communicates a parameter associated with printing the target color on the substrate utilizing the print engine.

Abstract: The invention presents a method of converting a diesel fueled engine to a blended-fuel engine capable of operating on blended gaseous fuel and diesel fuel, where the diesel fueled engine has a plurality of cylinders, a plurality of diesel fuel injectors for injecting diesel fuel into the cylinders, and an Engine Control Unit (ECU) for controlling at least the operation of the diesel injectors by sending diesel fuel injector control signals to the diesel fuel injectors.

Abstract: A system and method control a consistent color quality of overlay colors and single separations of color. The method determines a first error for a first separation of a first color, wherein the first error has a first sign. The method identifies a second error for a second separation of a second color, wherein the second color is a different color than the first color, wherein the second error is based on an actual density value for toner particles printed transferred from the second separation, wherein the second error has a second sign. The method compares the first sign of the first error and the second sign of the second error. The method converges the actual density value of the second separation to a target position when the first sign is a different sign than the second sign.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for gradually adjusting a look-up table (LUT) for a print engine in order to improve the regulation of color quality of printed images. The LUT is updated so that a target value for a particular color is achieved. This corrects for a measured or predicted change in a tone reproduction curve. Depending upon the severity of the required adjustment, a series of incremental adjustments rather than a single adjustment can be made to the LUT table over a period of time. Each adjustment in the series can be limited to a predetermined maximum delta so that any corrections made to the LUT following the generation and evaluation of one test image and before the generation and evaluation of the next test image for the same target color are gradually and imperceptibly implemented (i.e., unnoticeable).

Abstract: A communication session hand-off method of a communication device includes establishing a first communication session over a first network between a first communication interface of the communication device and a communication interface of another communication device, monitoring a predetermined condition of the communication device by the communication device, and based upon the predetermined condition, sending a request by the communication device to the another communication device for the another communication device to establish a second communication session over a second network between a second communication interface of the communication device and the communication interface of the another communication device.

Abstract: A method of establishing a one-way communication session from a first device to a second device includes transmitting initiation data to the second device to establish the one-way communication session, transmitting communication data to the second device, and terminating the one-way communication session. The initiation data causes the second device to receive the communication data and prevents the second device from transmitting communication data to the first device until after the one-way communication session has been terminated.

Abstract: A mobile communication device for communicating with a second communication device includes a first communication interface arranged to establish a first communication session with the second communication device, a second communication interface arranged to establish a second communication session with the second communication device, and a controller arranged to control, based upon information determined or measured by the mobile communication device, the first communication interface and the second communication interface to simultaneously establish the first communication session and the second communication session and to simultaneously transmit identical data packets to the second communication device using the first communication session and the second communication session.