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6747752 Demonstration control adjunct device for printers  
A printer, such as an ink-jet or laser printer is provided with a demonstration and activation member to illustrate operability of the printer. The print out is randomly, sequentially or a...
6739245 Method for controlling printing in a mail-processing device  
A method for controlling the printing in a mail processing device proceeds on the basis of a word-by-word storage of binary pixel data in the pixel memory with a predefined number of successive...
6738149 Method and apparatus for selecting a preferential font  
An outputting apparatus such as a laser beam printer comprises a memory to store designation information to designate a selection-impossible font from a plurality of fonts and a selector to select...
6738157 Image recording apparatus  
An image recording apparatus is provided which includes a selection information storage ( 62 ) made of a non-volatile memory for holding information on one of paper trays ( 42 ), ( 45 ), ( 48 )...
6738152 Event-based printing  
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for printing to a selected destination in a computer system. A centralized print manager provides the implementation and control of operation for...
6733194 Arrangement for controlling printing in a mail-processing device  
An arrangement for controlling the printing in a mail-processing device has a print data controller for pixel data editing while printing with a print heads. The print data controller is composed...
6731395 Network printer with watch dog timer  
A single CPU within a network printer executes in multiplex a communication task for extracting print job data from a packet received from the network in accordance with the communication protocol,...
6731394 Controlling the drawing ability of the printers connected to a communication medium  
A protocol control unit obtains a setting information file to be set to a drawing unit from one of a plurality of host computers at a certain timing, the setting information file is analyzed and...
6731398 Printing apparatus, method of printing, and recording medium to actualize the method  
In a printer that enables creation of at least two variable-size dots, that is, a larger-size dot and a smaller-size dot, the technique of the present invention extracts pixels constituting the...
6728013 Printing apparatus and color image printing method  
A printing apparatus comprises CPUs provided for corresponding one of a plurality of colors, each of which generates image data of a specified color; memories, each of which stores the image data...
6724492 Image forming apparatus capable of performing trial printing, and image forming system  
An image forming apparatus having a receipt interface I/F, a hard disk, and a printer section. The receipt interface I/F receives pages of image data transmitted and a partial print request signal...
6717686 Electronic printing system and method  
A user of an electronic printing system in accordance with the invention may create custom print designs locally and provide those custom print designs to a local or remote printer for printing....
6717695 Method and circuit for the production of compressed or expanded images, and printer with such circuit  
A method for producing compressed or expanded images is provided. For compression or expansion in a direction of the lines of the image, a line factor is determined as a starting value for a line...
6717691 Method for controlling a printer with a plurality of input locations for carrier material  
A method and apparatus for inputting a recording medium, such as paper, into a printer includes a plurality of input stations and each station having a plurality input compartments. The input...
6717689 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, and storage medium for storing information processing program  
There is disclosed an information processing apparatus which is handy for a user. In the information processing apparatus, a user interface of a control program for controlling a peripheral is...
6717687 Peripheral with selectable control program  
An image outputting apparatus has a removably mounted auxiliary memory device for prestoring control programs process print information conforming to a command system. The auxiliary memory device...
6714313 Image output method and apparatus therefor  
A virtual ejection port is selected by assigning virtual ejection ports to the virtual N ejection ports, then an ejection port of the apparatus is selected for output, and, in response to the entry...
6714314 Photographic print producing system  
In a print system provided with a printer and a first inputting device to input image data and first print service dealing information into the printer; there is further provided a second inputting...
6710891 Sheet media system having radio-frequency identification transponder  
A sheet media system comprising an apparatus for utilizing sheet media; and a radio-frequency identification transceiver associated with said apparatus for communicating with a transponder...
6707568 Printer driver filter and method of printing with the same  
A printer filter including a companion script file and which filters a standard printer data stream to perform a user-specified print job. In particular, the filter is a computer program which may...
6702278 Paper hold mechanism for stacked paper handlers  
This invention includes a weighted apparatus for gently holding an existing stack of paper at opposite sides thereof so that a new job may be deposited over the existing stack without degrading the...
6700672 Anti-aliasing with line samples  
A method, using a filter function, generates an anti-aliased discrete image from a continuous image including an edge. The method defines a line sample. A progressive convolution is derived from...
6692167 Multifunction apparatus and method for display apparatus for multifunction apparatus  
The present invention provides a plurality of destination screens having a plurality of pages, in which a plurality of destination selection keys are displayed. The destination screens are...
6687018 System and method for distributing print jobs  
A printing system for distributing print requests submitted by one or more clients includes a server that receives the print requests, generates a print job from one or more print requests, and...
6683696 Filter based data imaging method for an image forming device  
The present invention includes data imaging methods and image forming devices. One aspect of the present invention provides a data imaging method including the steps of providing an image forming...
6680785 Digital printer and its printing method  
Each pixel receives a digital picture data having a multi-gradation data. A line composed of printing pixels having a thickness difference of multi-gradations is obtained on a recording paper by...
6678068 Client print server link for output peripheral device  
A client print server link is provided, which uses two-way communication between a client computer and a printing system typically comprised of networked output devices and print servers. The...
6678066 Print control method and system, and a recording medium  
In a print processing section ( 12 ), print commands are converted into the form of a packet, and a header indicative of a print-end position is attached to the packet. The packet with the header...
6671062 Journaling technique for reverse order printing  
A method for reverse order printing. The control instructions that direct printing of a document on a printer are used to create journal files of the document, with each page of the document having...
6671060 Image forming system and method of operating an image forming system  
The present invention includes an image forming system and method of operating an image forming system. According to one aspect, the present invention provides an image forming system including an...
6671066 Computer program product intended for processing print data, and apparatus and method for processing print data  
A program, method and apparatus which are capable of processing print data, in which one job consists of multiple sets of print data with no break, so that features required to processing by the...
6667814 Automatic up image printing  
A method, for use with an advanced function printer, for automatically printing a source document in a print copy format having the largest acceptable print page image size on the fewest number of...
6666535 Method and apparatus for preventing satellite induced banding by selective pixel compensation  
A method and apparatus prevents satellite induced banding caused in bi-directional printing in which a print head alternatively moves in a first printing direction and in a second printing...
6665091 Printing apparatus, method of printing, and recording medium to actualize the printing apparatus  
An ink jet printer enabling dual-way printing has a head that can create different types of dots having different diameters. The printer creates small dots in the course of the backward movement of...
6654137 Print system, server, information processing apparatus, print control method, and recording medium  
A print system is provided which is capable of selecting a client to which detailed print information is transmitted from among a plurality of clients when a user performs manual-feed printing in a...
6654134 Method of printing on both sides of a sheet with data resending following a jam and an apparatus for use therewith  
A printing control method causes the printer to print data of even pages on one side of respective recording media; causes the printer to print data of odd pages to be printed on the recording...
6654135 Printing control system, a print controller, an image server, an information processing apparatus and a method therefor, and a storage medium storing a program readable by a computer  
A printing control system utilizes the resources of the printer system effectively when the documentary image is printed including images. The format is used, in which image information is managed...
6654139 Printer system with image processing system in which drawing operations are executed in parallel  
A printer system with an image processing unit includes a separating section, a plurality of drawing sections and an output controller. The separating section divides drawing instructions for a...
6650946 Apparatus and method for planning and controlling production sequences  
An apparatus for planning and controlling production sequences, in particular printing processes in a printing system. The apparatus includes a sequence control apparatus formed of at least one...
6650430 Security printing and unlocking mechanism for high security printers  
A printer is provided with a smart card encoding device that is externally accessible. The smart card is a key with an integrated circuit including a memory that will retain a discrete password and...
6650436 Automatic sheet feed control  
A printer in which the speed at which the recording medium is loaded into the printer prior to printing, at which the recording medium is moved through the printer during printing, and at which the...
6646754 Backprinting image prints  
A system and method of backprinting image prints in which an order is received specifying one or more recipients and, for each specified recipient, a set of one or more images associated with that...
6639687 Progress indicator for multiple actions  
Disclosed is a progress indicator generated on a computer display. Program logic in a computer system monitors the execution of a plurality of tasks, such as the transmission of print jobs, and...
6633397 Output apparatus and output environment setting method in output apparatus  
An output apparatus for forming output information on the basis of input information inputted from an external apparatus and outputting is constructed by a connector for connecting the output...
6633403 Image forming apparatus and image processing method for limiting the communication between print controller and print engine based on load of the print engine  
The state of an engine control section is detected, it is determined on the basis of the state of the engine control section whether communication between a printer controller and the engine...
6633404 Image forming apparatus capable of repeatedly reading out and printing stored image data  
In order to efficiently utilize a memory in a digital copying machine which reads image data from an original and stores the read image data, whether or not to store image data in the memory is...
6633400 Print system  
A print system has: a client apparatus for outputting print data; a printer server apparatus for receiving the print data from the client apparatus, and controlling an output of the print data...
6633401 Image forming device that saves recording medium when printing communication data  
When a specified type of communication data is received by a specified interface, the communication data is processed into intermediate data based on a sheet-saving print format. Upon receiving...
6631010 Web-based imaging system utilizing “cookies” to provide a single-action printing option  
The user goes to a Web imaging homepage to print a document that was recently submitted to the Web-based imaging system. The user selects a printer from the list of available printers. The user...
6631012 Apparatus and method for printing two-dimensional barcode and articles incorporating such barcode  
A method and system for printing a 2D-barcode corresponding to a binary data array and a substrate imprinted with such barcode. The barcode has I first columns of modules and J rows of modules...