Match Document Document Title
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...
6538766 Conversion of digital data into bit-map mode  
The invention concerns a method of converting, into bit-map mode, digital data representing physical quantities, in order to transmit the converted data from a first data processing device to a...
6535299 Bar code verification and printing system  
This disclosure sets forth a verifier for verifying the quality of print such as bar codes in combination with a printer wherein the printer can be controlled to provide proper printing functions...
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...
6532078 Split image-forming method and device and split image-printing method and device for tape printing apparatus  
There are provided a split image-forming method and device for dividing a basic image comprised of m lines of character string images and a background image including at least one of an outer frame...
6529285 Relabelling of tokenized symbols in fontless structured document image representations  
A processor is provided with a first set of digital information that includes a first structured representation of a document. From the first set of digital information, the processor produces a...
6519053 Method and apparatus for smart job ticket processing for print streams  
A method and system of print job processing initiated by a client communicating-computer communicating with a printer server system comprising operations performed by the client...
6519052 Image processing method and apparatus to select a data compression method according to a size of an output image  
An image processing apparatus for inputting image data from an external image input device and outputting the inputted image data to an external image output device after processing the data, the...
6519047 Multifunctional machine performing a shuttle-scanning  
A multifunctional machine prevents contamination caused by the contact of a document and a printhead by placing the printhead to face a base frame supporting a printable mediumu, and by placing a...
6509974 Automated job creation for job preparation  
A system and method are disclosed for providing production printing instructions for a printed end document to a job preparation station. The printed end document is made up of a plurality of other...
6507409 Method for controlling information relating to the state of use in a printing apparatus, and a printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus can process all information relating to past states of use of the printing apparatus and appropriately notify the user of the state of use of the printing apparatus. A number...
6501556 Image forming apparatus having a trial print mode  
An image forming apparatus has a normal print mode in which input image data for a plurality of pages are processed into images on the same number of pages of paper, and a trial print mode in which...
6498655 Self validating printer with ticket voiding and reprint features  
Methods and apparatus are provided for printing and validating a document, such as a ticket or voucher printed on a substrate such as paper. After the document is printed, at least a portion...
6493098 Desk-top printer and related method for two-sided printing  
A printing apparatus has a desk-top printer housing having a paper input port, a paper output port and a data input port. A digital processor is disposed in the housing and is operatively connected...
6493106 Method for synchronizing pixel deposition frequencies between a plurality of print engines  
The present invention provides a system and method for simultaneously controlling a plurality of print engines connected together (in series, in parallel or otherwise) that facilitates electronic...
6490050 Printing apparatus and control method for same, and a data storage medium recording the control method  
Paper jams and damage to a printing medium resulting from movement of a print head carriage are prevented in a printing apparatus in which the print head unit moves orthogonally to the direction in...
6483603 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus of the present invention continuously conveys a first and a second document set on an ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) and having a reference image size to a document...
6476923 Tandem printer printing apparatus  
A printing assembly comprises a first printer for printing documents encoded in computer generated signals and a second printer for printing documents encoded in computer generated signals, the...
6467410 Method and apparatus for using a vacuum to reduce cockle in printers  
In a printer, liquid ink is applied to a print medium as the medium is passed through the printer. A low pressure zone is generated along one surface of the print medium to hold a portion of the...
6466326 Printer and printing method  
Print requests issued by an interpretation section 13 are stored in an execution or wait queue of a storage section 21 by way of a print request receiving section 22 . The print requests...
6462830 Image processing apparatus and method, image forming system, image forming apparatus and method  
An image forming system in which a PDL controller develops a raster image from entered PDL image data and sends a number Pr of items of prepared raster image data to a copier together with the...
6456386 Image forming system including sorter unit  
An object of the present invention is to improve an efficiency in using bins in a sorter of an image forming system, to which a plurality of personal computers are connected. If the number of the...
6452694 Design of text and graphic imagery on flag or tab media  
Printed articles such as flag or tab media can be printed with text and/or graphic objects specified by a user. The flag or tab media are useful in marking and indexing functions. The printed text...
6449052 Multi-purpose image generator for driving multiple output devices  
A set of hardware and/or software elements, typically embedded as part of the input or output device, which operate cooperatively to select from a set of personality parameters to enable the...
6441913 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
Image data combined of a first piece of and a second piece of image data and selection data to selectively designate one of the first piece or the second piece of image data is input to an input...
6433886 Image forming method and image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes a document feeder having a stand on which documents are placed and a pair of guide members which move from a center of the stand to sides of the stand. The...
6429945 Method of correcting the position of an image to be printed on a printing material  
A method for image position correction in printing on a printing material, wherein the printing material is traveling along a travel path through a printing machine by devices of a transporting...
6421138 Page allocation/deallocation procedure for a printer/copier with accessory media sheet handling apparatus  
The invention assures that page data in a printer/copier memory is retained until the corresponding page is successfully output to an attached page handling accessory. The system incorporating the...
6421139 Image forming apparatus for forming image on free-size sheet having arbitrary size  
There is provided an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit for forming an image on either a free-size sheet of an arbitrary size other than a regular size or a regular-size sheet,...
6417931 Print layout device, print layout method, and storage medium  
Provided are a print layout device, a print layout method and a storage medium therefor with which all data can always be printed by ensuring that data to be printed do not extend out beyond the...
6407820 Efficient use of print resources within a job stream  
A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow...
6407823 Network system, information processing device and information memory medium  
A network system which comprises a client printer 40 a and a server device which has high processing ability, which are connected via a communication line is presented. The client printer...
6406199 Printing control apparatus and method  
A printer having a stapling function is controlled. If the size of a sheet of paper to be printed on is set when the user designates a stapling position, positions at which stapling is possible are...
6384931 Method and system for capturing destination addresses from label data  
The invention is a method and system of capturing a destination address from a label print stream in a data processing system which is capable of supporting an object oriented programming...
6384928 Image processing apparatus and system  
An image processing apparatus and system, which can effectively use the functions of an interface and which can fully use an image forming apparatus, is connected to a plurality of image forming...
6377355 Color gamut displaying method, an image processing method, and apparatus utilizing these methods  
The host computer 2 defines a color gamut as a solid of a three dimensional space to represent a color reproduction area of a color reproduction device, and instructs to display the color gamut...
6359701 Multi-head printing with differing resolutions  
A printer having at least first and second print heads, each with independently controllable print resolution, controllably prints text data with a first resolution and non-text data with a second...
6351317 Printing system using communication network  
A printing system has at least one data processing apparatus for generating data to form an image and a printing apparatus for printing the image. The data processing apparatus and the printing...
6348977 Color-controlled conversion of color data  
A color data processing apparatus in which a type of received data is discriminated and, based on a discriminated type of the received data, a first process is executed to convert the received data...
6333789 Printing system, method and apparatus for processing a plurality of types of information different in priority  
To process a plurality of types of information having different priority according to the priority, multiple logical channels are generated by combining a protocol in a transport layer of a network...
6332170 Printing apparatus with job interrupt capabilities and control method thereof  
A printing environment is provided, in which the user can obtain prints of special print jobs without stagnation of ordinary print jobs which otherwise might be caused by the loading of a special...
6331900 Controller for image forming apparatus  
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus having a memory recall function and a serial number printing function. In a case where a user selects the both function after printing of a specific print...
6327042 Electronic page inverter for a mail processing system, and a folder-inserter including such an inverter  
The inverter makes it possible to use a very simple conveyor for coupling the outlet of a printer in a word processor system to the inlet of a folder-inserter, even though the printer outputs...
6320674 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus is equipped with a document reading device for reading image data on a document at a reading section; a memory to store the image data therein, the memory capable of...
6320669 Method and apparatus for obtaining consumer video segments for the purpose of creating motion sequence cards  
A method for obtaining a consumer video segment for the creation of motion sequence cards having a first step of selecting from a consumer's recording media the motion segment that is to be...
6310691 Technique for scanning documents using a spiral path locus  
An optical scanning technique employs an optical sensor array for collecting image pixel data from a flat medium during a scanning cycle. A motion apparatus provides relative motion between the...
6307638 Image processing apparatus and electronic equipment and their control method  
When an image processing apparatus having a binarizing unit for binarizing by a hardware process allows an image signal received from an electronic equipment having a binarizing unit for binarizing...
6304336 Output control device and image processing apparatus and method and storage medium  
System according to the present invention is adapted so that form data is registered according to form caching instruction data. Thus, the form data, which is a user resource, can be reused without...
6288787 Method for processing graphic data in a laser printer  
Disclosed is a method for processing graphic data in a laser printer capable of improving an effect of processing the graphic data, in which the graphic data are processed even though...
6271931 Data addition to optical storage cards using ink dots  
A method of information distribution on printed cards is disclosed including the steps of dividing the surface of the card into a number of predetermined areas; printing a first collection of data...