Abstract: Provided is a dry lamination method, and a laminate having superior appearance obtained by the method. The method in which an adhesive having a solid matter content of 35 wt % or more diluted in a solvent is applied onto a film according to a gravure process, the solvent is volatilized, and the resulting film is adhered with another film to obtain a laminate, wherein the adhesive is applied by: a gravure cylinder in which the screen number of gravure cylinder is 135 to 270 lines/inch and cell volume is 10 to 30 cc/m2; a gravure cylinder which is engraved by an electronic engraving machine to have a stylus angle of 120 to 140° and the screen number of gravure cylinder of 120 to 270 lines/inch; or a ceramic roll in which the screen number of gravure cylinder is 135 to 350 lines/inch and cell volume is 10 to 30 cc/m2.

Abstract: In a network printer, in order to handle tincture variations, if all the waiting print jobs are held in two types of formats, that is, PDL and half-tone print data generated by expanding the PDL, a required memory capacity is increased. Moreover, if the tincture variations occurs, all the waiting print jobs need rendering again. When the print job is to be stored, the received PDL is expanded, continuous-tone data is generated, and the continuous-tone data is JPEG-compressed. If a compression rate is high, the print job (print image data) is stored in the JPEG format. Even if the compression rate is low, storage of only the PDL or of PDL and the half-tone print data is selected according to expansion time of the PDL.

Abstract: An image forming system including a plurality of image forming apparatuses installed in a plurality of areas and in communication with one another via a network includes a management unit configured to manage level information indicating a level related to information management with respect to each of the plurality of areas, and a job issuing unit configured to issue a job, including data for image formation, for causing at least one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses to perform image formation. The image forming system identifies at least one image forming apparatus that can be selected as a destination of the job issued by the job issuing unit based on the level information managed by the management unit.

Abstract: In the present invention, paper fingerprint information of a document is read (step 801) and whether the paper fingerprint information is registered is judged (step 802). If it is judged that the paper fingerprint information is registered, read image data are acquired (step 814). Super-resolution processing is then applied to the read image data and read image data, which had been acquired from the document up to a previous time, and high-resolution image data are thereby acquired (step 816). Next, paper fingerprint information of a recording sheet is read (step 808), and the paper fingerprint information and added information, including information indicating a storage location of the read image data that have been acquired up until now in regard to the document, are stored in an associated manner (step 810). An image is then formed on the recording sheet based on the high-resolution image data (step 812).

Abstract: To enable a user to easily approximate a portable information device to a position where the portable information device should be approximated so as to cause the portable information device and a communication apparatus to communicate with each other by wireless communication, there is provided a control method for controlling the communication apparatus, comprising: performing data transfer between the communication apparatus and the portable information device by the wireless communication through a communication unit; acquiring identification information for identifying the portable information device; and displaying position information which indicates the position where the portable information device should be approximated to the communication apparatus so that the portable information device identified by the acquired identification information and the communication unit perform the data transfer by the wireless communication.

Abstract: Provided is a dry lamination method, and a laminate having superior appearance obtained by the method. The method in which an adhesive having a solid matter content of 35 wt % or more diluted in a solvent is applied onto a film according to a gravure process, the solvent is volatilized, and the resulting film is adhered with another film to obtain a laminate, wherein the adhesive is applied by: a gravure cylinder in which the screen number of gravure cylinder is 135 to 270 lines/inch and cell volume is 10 to 30 cc/m2; a gravure cylinder which is engraved by an electronic engraving machine to have a stylus angle of 120 to 140° and the screen number of gravure cylinder of 120 to 270 lines/inch; or a ceramic roll in which the screen number of gravure cylinder is 135 to 350 lines/inch and cell volume is 10 to 30 cc/m2.

Abstract: In a network printer, in order to handle tincture variations, if all the waiting print jobs are held in two types of formats, that is, PDL and half-tone print data generated by expanding the PDL, a required memory capacity is increased. Moreover, if the tincture variations occurs, all the waiting print jobs need rendering again. When the print job is to be stored, the received PDL is expanded, continuous-tone data is generated, and the continuous-tone data is JPEG-compressed. If a compression rate is high, the print job (print image data) is stored in the JPEG format. Even if the compression rate is low, storage of only the PDL or of PDL and the half-tone print data is selected according to expansion time of the PDL.

Abstract: To enable a user to easily approximate a portable information device to a position where the portable information device should be approximated so as to cause the portable information device and a communication apparatus to communicate with each other by wireless communication, there is provided a control method for controlling the communication apparatus, comprising: performing data transfer between the communication apparatus and the portable information device by the wireless communication through a communication unit; acquiring identification information for identifying the portable information device; and displaying position information which indicates the position where the portable information device should be approximated to the communication apparatus so that the portable information device identified by the acquired identification information and the communication unit perform the data transfer by the wireless communication.

Abstract: In the present invention, paper fingerprint information of a document is read (step 801) and whether the paper finger print information is registered is judged (step 802). If it is judged that the paper fingerprint information is registered, read image data are acquired (step 814). Super-resolution processing is then applied to the read image data and read image data, which had been acquired from the document up to a previous time, and high-resolution image data are thereby acquired (step 816). Next, paper fingerprint information of a recording sheet is read (step 808), and the paper fingerprint information and added information, including information indicating a storage location of the read image data that have been acquired up until now in regard to the document, are stored in an associated manner (step 810). An image is then formed on the recording sheet based on the high-resolution image data (step 812).

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of types of image processes on image data includes a dividing unit adapted to divide input image data into area images, a data generation unit adapted to generate data including an area image and type information indicating a type of an image process to be performed, an image processing unit including a plurality of image processing sub-units each capable of being reconfigured so as to function as a circuit capable of performing selected one of the plurality of types of image processes, a commanding unit adapted to command at least one of the plurality of image processing sub-units to be reconfigured so as to function as a circuit for performing an image process specified by the type information, and a transfer control unit adapted to transfer the area image to the image processing sub-unit specified by the commanding unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing method which can provide appropriate image property information in accordance with the operation mode, and can realize a more preferable image process by arbitrarily switching the priority of image property information to be added. To this end, image data which contains first image property information for each predetermined unit is input from a scanner (1002), and is segmented by a tile bus (1048). Each segmented data is compressed by a tile compression section (1047). Compressed image data is stored in a memory such as a RAM (1021) or the like. In this case, if the size of the compressed image data is equal to or larger than a predetermined size, image data excluding first image property information is stored.

Abstract: An image forming system including a plurality of image forming apparatuses installed in a plurality of areas and in communication with one another via a network includes a management unit configured to manage level information indicating a level related to information management with respect to each of the plurality of areas, and a job issuing unit configured to issue a job, including data for image formation, for causing at least one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses to perform image formation. The image forming system identifies at least one image forming apparatus that can be selected as a destination of the job issued by the job issuing unit based on the level information managed by the management unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a read and analysis unit that analyzes print setting items recorded by a printer and stored in a memory card, and a generation unit that generates additional data relating to print settings required upon printing by the printer based on the print setting items analyzed. The image processing apparatus reduces the user's burden of manipulating print setting items for each printer, and avoids an incident in which print setting items that cannot be set by a printer that is to output image data are set.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive and a packaging laminate produced by using the same. The adhesive contains a polyisocyanate and a partially acid-modified polyol which is a product of reacting a polyol with anhydrotrimellitic acid and an anhydrotrimellitate ester at a ratio such that the anhydrotrimellitic acid is 10 to 70% by mass and the anhydrotrimellitate ester is 90 to 30% by mass, as the sum of the anhydrotrimellitic acid and the anhydrotrimellitate ester is 100% by mass. The packaging laminate has a first and second sheet-shaped substrates and the above adhesive through which the first and second sheet-shaped substrates are laminated.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of performing a plurality of types of image processes on image data includes a dividing unit adapted to divide input image data into area images, a data generation unit adapted to generate data including an area image and type information indicating a type of an image process to be performed, an image processing unit including a plurality of image processing sub-units each capable of being reconfigured so as to function as a circuit capable of performing selected one of the plurality of types of image processes, a commanding unit adapted to command at least one of the plurality of image processing sub-units to be reconfigured so as to function as a circuit for performing an image process specified by the type information, and a transfer control unit adapted to transfer the area image to the image processing sub-unit specified by the commanding unit.

Abstract: A clock signal is frequency-modulated and an image processing operation is executed synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal to generate image data which is stored in a memory. Image data written in the memory is read synchronously with a clock signal having a fixed frequency. The image data written in the memory synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal is therefore converted into the image data synchronizing with the clock signal having a fixed frequency. Data subjected to image processing synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal can be output on the recording apparatus side without any practical problem.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive and a packaging laminate produced by using the same. The adhesive contains a polyisocyanate and a partially acid-modified polyol which is a product of reacting a polyol with anhydrotrimellitic acid and an anhydrotrimellitate ester at a ratio such that the anhydrotrimellitic acid is 10 to 70% by mass and the anhydrotrimellitate ester is 90 to 30% by mass, as the sum of the anhydrotrimellitic acid and the anhydrotrimellitate ester is 100% by mass. The packaging laminate has a first and second sheet-shaped substrates and the above adhesive through which the first and second sheet-shaped substrates are laminated.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing method which can provide appropriate image property information in accordance with the operation mode, and can realize a more preferable image process by arbitrarily switching the priority of image property information to be added. To this end, image data which contains first image property information for each predetermined unit is input from a scanner (1002), and is segmented by a tile bus (1048). Each segmented data is compressed by a tile compression section (1047). Compressed image data is stored in a-memory such as a RAM (1021) or the like. In this case, if the size of the compressed image data is equal to or larger than a predetermined size, image data excluding first image property information is stored.

Abstract: A clock signal is frequency-modulated and an image processing operation is executed synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal to generate image data which is stored in a memory. Image data written in the memory is read synchronously with a clock signal having a fixed frequency. The image data written in the memory synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal is therefore converted into the image data synchronizing with the clock signal having a fixed frequency. Data subjected to image processing synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal can be output on the recording apparatus side without any practical problem.

Abstract: A clock signal is frequency-modulated and an image processing operation is executed synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal to generate image data which is stored in a memory. Image data written in the memory is read synchronously with a clock signal having a fixed frequency. The image data written in the memory synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal is therefore converted into the image data synchronizing with the clock signal having a fixed frequency. Data subjected to image processing synchronously with the frequency-modulated clock signal can be output on the recording apparatus side without any practical problem.