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6628411 |
Compound document page data processing
A fast, raster-based, enhanced, data compression technique for the printing of compound documents, including pre-processing images in an original page description form of the data before the page...
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6628422 |
Image forming system and scanner having direct image forming function
In order to achieve image direct-forming from a scanner to a printer, an image forming system is provided with an image forming apparatus, a host apparatus, a selecting unit and a scanner. The host...
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6628412 |
Methods of document management and automated document tracking, and a document management system
In one aspect, the invention encompasses a method of document management. A document is printed with a printing device configured to automatically label the document with a machine-readable code....
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6623190 |
Methods and apparatus for managing a print job among a processor, an image producing device, and an external storage device
Printing a print job on an image producing device by storing print data from the print job to an external storage device, retrieving the print data from the external storage device to the image...
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6624907 |
Controller for a printing unit
A controller for a printing unit has a standard hardware board provided with a central processing unit, an I/O-unit and a central bus system connected to the central processing unit and the...
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6625331 |
Image forming apparatus
Image distortion is corrected in a color printer wherein print units for a plurality of colors are aligned to form a color image by superposing images formed by the print units. A quantity of image...
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6621585 |
Method and apparatus for register mark identification
A Color Register Control system used to maintain close registration between colors printed on a surface by various printing cylinders. The control system acquires an image of a cluster of register...
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6621593 |
Scan line non-linearity correction using an aspheric element in a ROS system
An aspheric optical element corrects the non-linearity of the scan line in a ROS. The optical element can be either the wobble correction mirror, the last optical element in the ROS, or the output...
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6621591 |
Method and apparatus for printing an information-based indicia program (IBIP) postage from a document inserter
A method and apparatus for printing an information-based indicia program (IBIP) address and postage in a document inserter mailing system is disclosed wherein a third-party word processing software...
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6621588 |
Output control method and apparatus, and output system
A rendering area of a memory resource in the unit of a band to be used by print information written in a predetermined page description language is suppressed as much as possible from not being...
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6618157 |
Interface card for coupling a computer to an external device
Apparatus for printing a graphic image on a substrate, a method performed thereby and a card for use in the apparatus, the apparatus being composed of: a computer containing a motherboard which...
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6614549 |
Print model that allows direct job submission to physical printer objects while preserving job defaulting, validation and scheduling
A print model is provided that supports job submission to either physical or logical printer objects while preserving job defaulting, validation, and scheduling. According to one aspect of the...
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6611353 |
Method for incorporating media type sensing with software applications
A method of imaging an item is provided comprising the steps of determining a media type of a first portion of an item to be imaged, determining a media type of a supply of media for an imaging...
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6608698 |
Printing apparatus and method for saving printing material
A method and apparatus for printing rasterized images while economizing printing resources, on the basis of input image data corresponding to a predetermined original format, are provided. The...
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6608691 |
Generation of exposure data having hierarchical structure
A method of generating exposure data includes the steps of generating first exposure data representing a common portion shared by different exposure images, generating second exposure data...
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6608692 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium for storing programs used therein
Trace information showing a fact that an illegal output request has been issued from any one of data processing apparatuses is managed. Under an output environment such that an output apparatus is...
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6603567 |
Container for recording medium, printing apparatus, and printing method
A plurality of sheets of photofixed-recording medium are stacked on top of each other and stored in a cartridge. An EEPROM is attached to the cartridge. The EEPROM is connecting to a memory...
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6600569 |
Printing control apparatus, printing control method, printing control system, and storage medium in which printing control program is stored
A printing control apparatus for analyzing and processing an input print job that includes printing management data for managing the print job and print data. Header information identifying the...
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6600573 |
Fast green/magenta dithering of color images
A color image is converted into a dot pattern for display by a color printer. The image is separated into Cyan, Magenta and Yellow color planes; a dither matrix is applied to the Cyan plane; an...
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6597467 |
Image processing apparatus for transmitting compressed area information to be used in editing
In an image processing method, image information described by a page descriptor language is developed by the page descriptor language into a form not pasted with to-be-pasted image information,...
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6594027 |
Image forming systems, methods of handling media, and methods of identifying locations of interchangeable media handling devices relative to one another
In one aspect, the invention encompasses a method of identifying the location of interchangeable media handling devices relative to one another and relative to an image forming device. A data...
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6594031 |
Printer control unit and method, a record medium recording a printer control program and a printer system
A printer control system including a printer control device for controlling plural printers connected thereto via a network and providing image data transmission to plural printers by using a...
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6594028 |
Status-based control over printer
A printer driver executable in a computer connectable to a driven printer. In response to initiation of a print job, the print driver obtains current status of the printer. Based on the status of...
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6594026 |
Software-controlled printer/perforator unit
A printer/perforator unit for connection to a conventional personal computer allows documents to be conveniently perforated, both printing and perforating functions being controllable in response...
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6583892 |
Output control apparatus and output control method to recognize a drawing ability of a printer
In an output control apparatus and output control method for controlling a printer in accordance with its printing ability when graphics prepared by a graphics system are to be printed, the figure...
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6574000 |
System for the enhancement of information based indicia and postage security devices
A system that supplies permanent and human and machine readable evidence that a approved printer was used to print the indicia affixed to a mail piece. The system will first capture the postal...
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6574002 |
Selection of printing features at print time
A method allows selection of printing features at print time. Upon a user selecting to perform a first print job from an application, a print dialog box is displayed. Upon the user closing the...
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6570665 |
Method for printing multi-page images
A method of printing a multi-page job including producing separate non-bit mapped files for each page of the multi-page job, producing a page file for each page of the multi-page job, storing the...
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6570671 |
Image forming apparatus and recording control device
An image forming apparatus has a recording element array including plural recording elements, an image forming section for causing a relative movement between the recording element array and a...
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6567182 |
Scan conversion of polygons for printing file in a page description language
This invention cures many inefficiencies with known scan conversion methods. This invention employs a edge array rather than a set linked list from an array of pointers equal in number to the...
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6563595 |
Method of communicating with a SCSI bus device that does not have an assigned SCSI address
A SCSI device resides and communicates on the SCSI bus without that device being assigned a SCSI address or corresponding SCSI ID. The driver software on the host computer directs the SCSI...
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6563598 |
Method and apparatus for digital document control
A multi-function printer device is configured for use with job control sheets having machine readable indicia thereon, the multi-function printer device including a housing; an imaging area...
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6563601 |
System for printing image data divided at a break point
A printing system in which an image is printed within multiple printable areas of a recording medium, the multiple printable areas defining an overlapped printing area, includes detection of a...
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6559968 |
Copying selected regions of documents
Disclosed is a method for selective copying of regions of a printed sheet ( 101 ). The printed sheet ( 101 ) comprises a plurality of said regions ( 111,112,113, and 114 ) having recorded therein...
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6559956 |
Butted sensor array with supplemental chip in abutment region
The present invention relates to photosensitive chips for creating electrical signals from an original image, as would be found for example in a digital scanner, copier, facsimile machine, or other...
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6552813 |
Directing print jobs in a network printing system
A virtual printer for print jobs printed on networked printers. First, the virtual printer checks a user's preferences regarding a print job the user wishes to send such as speed and image quality....
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6549295 |
Method for making products having merged images
A method for making display products that generate special visual effects with autostereographic, dynamic, alternating, animated, and morphed images used in conjunction with lenticulated arrays for...
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6549300 |
Method and apparatus for tab printing
A method and apparatus which configures a printer for printing ordered stock by using a template. The template has various parameters which the user inputs. Examples of input parameters involve the...
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6545767 |
Print server, printing control method, image forming apparatus, image forming method, image forming system, and storage medium
An image forming system includes a print server and an image forming apparatus communicating with the print server, the print server including a first storage device for storing an identifier for...
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6545772 |
Apparatus and techniques for computerized printing
An integrated computerized system for use in color printing having at least one digital representation of a color characteristic of at least one page to be printed and a digital storage memory for...
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6545769 |
Digital copying apparatus with a personal data storage system
A digital image reproduction apparatus including a scanner unit, a printer unit, a memory, an operator control unit integrated in the apparatus and provided with an input device and a display for...
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6538757 |
Method for automatically reading electronic tickets
An automatic method for reading a graphic field on a ticket so that the ticket may be processed quickly without human error. The graphic field is designed to produce a “tell”, a visible known...
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6538761 |
Computer system
A computer system which can be freely used by many and unspecified persons. A recording medium is loaded in a computer terminal (public terminal), and use condition confirmation processing is...
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6538763 |
Printer driver architectures and methods of providing adaptable printer driver architectures
Printer driver architectures and methods of providing adaptable printer driver architectures are described. In one embodiment, a printer driver architecture includes a kernel which is configured to...
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6535297 |
Programmable auditron for multifunctional printing system
An auditron system is provided for a multifunctional printing system including a printing machine with a plurality of document processing services, the auditron system includes a user interface and...
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6529288 |
Digital printing system
When printing an image frame on the basis of digital image data, a printer produces a bar code representative of a memory location storing the image data, and prints it on one side of the image...
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6529286 |
Dynamic printing interface for routing print jobs in a computer network
A dynamically shared printing interface (DDSPI) in a computer network that routes print jobs to printers in a user defined preferred printer list (PPL) based upon a printer's capability to print a...
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6525830 |
Printing method for improving speed
In a printing method, a printer driver and a printer employ the same image compression and decompression methods so as to improve printing speed. Image data compressed by a predetermined...
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6525833 |
Information processing method and apparatus and memory medium
An information processing method is constructed by a converting step of converting information described by a predetermined language into information described by an intermediate language, a...
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6525831 |
Non-format violating PDL guessing technique to determine the page description language in which a print job is written
A printing system produces prints from a print job written in one of a plurality of page description languages with the print job assuming the form of a print job stream. The printing system...
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