Abstract: A peeling sheet on the back of a cover sheet is provided with a cover seal having a printed front surface is peeled off to partially expose an adhesive layer. A core material for cover is placed thereon. First side piece portion and second side piece portion are then peeled off and the entire surface of the first cover members, backbone member and second cover member of the core material for cover is bonded and fixed by the adhesive layer of the cover sheet for cover. Outer circumferential region of the cover seal for cover is then bent to the inside thus making a cover of a booklet. When a personal user edits electronic images and prints the electronic images on a printed sheet, the printed sheet can be fixed easily in a short time for making a booklet.

Abstract: A printing paper includes a sheet having a first surface and a second surface, an adhesive layer formed on the second surface, a release paper attached to the adhesive layer, a plurality of boundary lines including first folding direction boundary lines and second folding direction boundary lines that divide the sheet into page regions, the release paper having a plurality of release-assist formation lines, wherein when folding along the first folding direction boundary line, first partial surfaces of adjacent page regions are brought together and when folding along the second folding direction line, second partial surfaces of adjacent page regions are brought together. When folding along the first folding direction boundary line, at least one tab portion of the release paper detaches from the adhesive layer and extends outward from the second surface, and the at least one tab portion enables removal of the release paper.

Abstract: In an entire structure comprising internet network (20), a server (200) connected thereto, a base station of cell-phone network (40), a cell-phone (100), a removable medium equipped for the cell-phone (100) and a printer (30) having a slot for the removable medium, image data or character data uploaded to the server (200) from the cell-phone (100) having a camera is converted to the image data or the document data having appropriate image quality modification and layout applied thereto at the server, and then downloaded to the cell-phone (100). The data is stored in the removable media (10), and further transferred to the printer (30) so as to be printed on an appropriate medium. Herewith, by using communication network, it provides a system of applying layout to data sent from a communication terminal, converting it, and then returning it.

Abstract: A peeling sheet on the back of a cover sheet is provided with a cover seal having a printed front surface is peeled off to partially expose an adhesive layer. A core material for cover is placed thereon. First side piece portion and second side piece portion are then peeled off and the entire surface of the first cover members, backbone member and second cover member of the core material for cover is bonded and fixed by the adhesive layer of the cover sheet for cover. Outer circumferential region of the cover seal for cover is then bent to the inside thus making a cover of a booklet. When a personal user edits electronic images and prints the electronic images on a printed sheet, the printed sheet can be fixed easily in a short time for making a booklet.

Abstract: Printing data created by printing data creation means is printed by printing means in such a manner that the print position, size, direction, and order of the printing data will create a booklet. The printing paper has a cut line and a folding line and after the image is printed, the paper is folded and added by a cover.

Abstract: To provide an intermediate medium capable of forming an image without gloss and also to provide an image forming device including the intermediate medium. The transfer belt 11 is produced from polyimide by molding techniques using a mold having a surface roughness Rz of between 5 &mgr;m and 50 &mgr;m. Therefore, the transfer belt 11 produced in this manner also has surface roughness Rz of between 5 &mgr;m and 50 &mgr;m. An ink image is first formed onto the transfer belt 11, and then, transferred onto a recording sheet S by application of heat and pressure. In this way, an ink image without gloss can be obtained.

Abstract: A hot melt ink which is applicable to an ink jet printing system where the hot melt ink is jetted out to a printing medium to form an image on the printing medium includes a binder which contains a hot melt composition; a coloring material which is dispersed in the binder; and a photo-curing composition. The binder as a dispersion medium is dispersed in the photo-curing composition in the form of grains and a surface of the hot melt ink is covered with the photo-curing composition when the hot melt ink is fixed on the printing medium. An ink jet printing apparatus includes a jetting device which jets the above hot melt ink melted by heat out to a printing medium to draw an image on the printing medium; and a light source for irradiating the hot melt ink on the printing medium which is jetted out from the jetting device to cure the photo-curing composition.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording information includes a writing device that can be manually manipulated to record information on at least one sheet. An electronic device receives the information recorded on the at least one sheet. The apparatus therefore substantially simultaneously records information on at least two mediums.

Abstract: An image forming device including a plurality of image forming units each for forming an image on an intermediate transfer body using one of different colored inks. Different colored images are selectively formed in an overlapping relation on the intermediate transfer body, thereby forming a multicolor image thereon. Each different colored image is formed by a thermal transfer operation in which ink on an ink holding member is heated, melted, and then transferred directly onto the intermediate transfer body or onto an existing ink image on the intermediate transfer body. Heat to be supplied to the ink to be transferred onto the existing ink image is insufficient to melt ink in the existing ink image.

Abstract: An ink cartridge includes a bag filled with ink and sealed. The bag is housed in a cartridge case. The bag is formed out of a laminate including a ductile film and a rigid film which are laminated together. The case has a hole, through which a hollow needle can protrude from the outside into the case and pierce the bag to take out ink from the bag. The laminate has such a sealing effect that, when it is pierced by the needle, the pierced hole is blocked. The cartridge is suitable for an ink jet printer.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording medium comprising a base material and formed thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least yellow color-forming particles containing a first photosensitive component having a maximum hardening sensitivity to light with wavelength L1, magenta color-forming particles containing a second photosensitive component having a maximum hardening sensitivity to light with wavelength L2 and cyan color-forming particles containing a third photosensitive component having a maximum hardening sensitivity to light with wavelength L3. All the wavelengths L1, L2 and L3 are wavelengths longer than 500 nm.

Abstract: An input device including a medium support for supporting a medium; a reading unit for reading an image from the medium and for generating image data accordingly; and a movement mechanism for generating relative movement between the medium support and the reading unit.

Abstract: An electric pen is used as a data input/output device with the same feel as though writing on paper with an ordinary pen. The electric pen can be used in conjunction with an external data processor, such as a compact portable electric note book. Hand written characters inputted by the electric pen is data processed in the external data processor and characters can be printed in a designated print area on paper or the like in print form.

Abstract: Steel having excellent workability and deep drawability is produced by an electric furnace-vacuum degassing process. The steel has a composition which comprises about:C: 0.0050 wt % or lessSi: 1.5 wt % or lessMn: 1.5 wt % or lessP: 0.10 wt % or lessAl: 0.10 wt % or lessS: 0.020 wt % or lessO: 0.01 wt % or lessCu: 0.02-1.5 wt %Ni: 0.02-2.0 wt %Ti and/or Nb: from 0.001 to 0.10 wt %N: from 0.0040 to 0.0090 wt %.

Abstract: The present invention provides a life detecting system that accurately detects the end of the useful life of a process unit used in electrophotographic printers. The life detecting system comprises a RAM that stores a count of the number of driving pulses generated at an exposure unit and a ROM that stores a predetermined reference count that represents the useful life of the process unit in terms of a driving pulse count. The system indicates that the end of the useful life of the process unit has been reached when it determines that the count stored in the RAM is greater than or equal to the predetermined reference count stored in the ROM.

Abstract: The image developing part 10 is constructed from the developing agent storing part 20 storing the fluid developing agent 18 and the developing agent supplying part 22 confronting the surface of the photosensitive drum 12 via the minute opening 25. The developing agent supplying part 22 includes a pair of, upper and lower, flat plates 24a and 24b which are placed in parallel and which define the uniform minute opening 25 over an entire width of the photosensitive drum 12. The flat plates 24a and 24b are formed with the electrodes 26a and 26b, respectively. It is possible to finely adjust the gap between the flat plates 24a and 24b through operating the minute displacement actuator 28 placed at the gap between the flat plates 24a and 24b. It is therefore possible to control the pressure to be exerted upon the fluid developing agent 18.

Abstract: A resistance heating element member formed with a resistor member on a polyimide film or resin sheet is fixed to the inner circumferential surface of a roller drum by blow-molding with a heat-resistant resin member. The resistor member includes a metal foil and meanders several times in a predetermined belt-like or serpentine pattern, and electrically contacts slide electrodes arranged on the roller at each side of the roller.

Abstract: When a mobile data communication device is rocked due to an input/output operation, a rotary shaft of a generator coupled with a weight is rotated, and power is generated. The generated power is stored in a capacitor. The power stored in the capacitor is controlled to constant voltage by a voltage stabilizing circuit and is supplied to a control circuit. In the control circuit, based on information inputted in a pointing device by supplied power, data are transmitted and received with an external data processing device through an infrared data transmitting/receiving device. Alternatively, power may be supplied from the outside of the mobile data communication device by electromagnetic induction. According to the above-mentioned configuration, not using a battery or a wire system, the mobile data communication device is capable of easily supplying power.

Abstract: A non-oxidizing heating method and apparatus in which a non-oxidizing gas of high temperature is continuously generated and supplied into a furnace by changing over a plurality of heat storage type heaters alternately while repeating an operation in which one heater stores heat and the other heater heats and blows the non-oxidizing gas. Since it is possible to heat by producing a completely non-oxidizing atmosphere within the furnace, the method and apparatus can be effectively utilized in furnaces which require heating in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, for example, various furnaces such as a ladle, tundish, etc. used in a field of steel manufacturing and continuous casting, and various furnaces used in a field of heating and heat treatment of metallic materials, and thus, it is effective to achieve reduction of operational cost, improvement of product quality, and improvement of product yield.

Abstract: An article which bears information representative of a convertible value thereof is deposited by a consumer for retrieval by the manufacturer of the article. The information is represented by a bar code on the article and read by a bar-code reader. A valuable return, such as a monetary payment, to the consumer is prepared based on the convertible value represented by the information read by the bar code reader. The valuable return is actually made to the consumer based on information borne by a consumer's recording card and updated based on the information read by the bar-code reader.