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7242496 Facsimile machine and data conversion device  
A facsimile machine provides file specifying information of a transmission file to an agent software. The agent software runs an appropriate application program in accordance with the file...
7239402 Spot color application in printer device  
To translate a physical color to a color space of a printer device, a color patch is scanned using a printer's internal scanner. The printer then automatically prints that scanned color, together...
7239411 Method and apparatus for controlling printing of electronic applications  
A method and apparatus for controlling printable content from textual and graphical sources, and reducing consumable print medium such as toner, ink, and paper. The method and apparatus includes a...
7239409 Remote access to print job retention  
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for remotely managing and accessing print jobs stored in job retention of a printing device, including displaying, printing, canceling,...
7236268 Adaptive screening in raster image processing of complex pages  
A method of data processing is described for generating a screened bitmap in an adaptive manner. The page being printed is subdivided into a plurality of smaller areas, and the optimal screening...
7236258 Personalized photo greeting cards  
A method for producing personalized greeting cards includes receiving a plurality of greeting card orders from users and separating the ordered greeting cards into batches. The ordered greeting...
7233404 System for processing print jobs  
A flexible and extensible job processing system is described. A print job processing server manages a plurality of data receivers and printer emulators. Data receivers receive jobs from the print...
7233417 Print job management apparatus  
The technique of the present invention increases a variation in status used for management of print jobs, thereby enhancing utility of a printer. In a printing system constructed via a network LAN,...
7233405 Planning and scheduling reconfigurable systems with regular and diagnostic jobs  
A system is provided to allow for automated planning and scheduling the work flow for reconfigurable production systems having a plurality of modules, with each module having alternative...
7229225 Methods and apparatus for media selection in cluster printing systems  
Methods and apparatus are provided for specifying media in cluster printing systems that include printers that use device-specific media selection techniques, such as paper catalogs, media tray...
7230736 Planning and scheduling reconfigurable systems with alternative capabilities  
A system is provided to allow automated planning and scheduling of the work flow for reconfigurable production systems having a plurality of modules, with each module having alternative...
7229224 Printing system and printing apparatus  
To provide a printing system and a printing apparatus which can ensure high-speed, normal printing with small memory requirements even when lots of print commands are sent to a printer. The...
7230734 Television broadcast receiving apparatus, television broadcast receiving method, and television broadcast receiving program  
In a system for receiving a television broadcast, when a printer is connected to a receiving apparatus for use, a printer driver which controls the printer is automatically registered. For this...
7230729 Printer pipeline bypass in hardware-ready format  
An apparatus for generating a data processing pathway in a hardware-ready format is provided which includes a computer-based client and an output device. The client has processing circuitry,...
7227664 Method of printing application data  
The present invention provides a method of printing application data. In this method, a print request and ASP certification data for accessing an application server are transmitted from a client...
7228339 Information storage output system and information storage output service  
There is provided an information storage output system enhanced in mobility and improved in convenience to use. In the information storage output system for storing predetermined storage data in a...
7227657 Printer management protocol  
A protocol, or method, for managing the printers and printer connections for users on a computer network based on the user's group membership, user name, terminal name (client name) and computer...
7227650 Output handling of printed media  
A printing system includes a printer and a first accessory device coupled to receive printed pages from the printer. The first accessory device contains a straight-through paper path and a...
7227663 Printing an electronic document to multiple output mechanisms  
A manner of specifying a document to be printed to multiple output mechanisms, including multiple printers and multiple output bins of each printer. Print specification data is received for an...
7227668 Method for producing a mixed color that is mixed from primary colors and corresponds to a prescribed target color  
In order to be able to print a prescribed target color with a printing system, the color data of the target color and of the mixed color compounded with parts of the primary colors are compared,...
7227651 Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium  
To be able to effectively use an image processing apparatus having plural functions and execute an effective use of the image processing apparatus under a condition of reflecting user's will, use...
7224476 Control device and control method for network-connected device  
A system for selecting a network-connected image forming apparatus wherein there are provided a plurality of network-connected image forming apparatuses and job registration means which distributes...
7224477 Printer and printing system capable of high secret printing  
When a printer ( 30 ) prints a printing job of confidential printing which is a kind of printing of secret documents, even if the printer ( 30 ) itself is set to hold printing job data after...
7221464 Image recording apparatus and test pattern for evaluating recorded image  
The invention concerns an image recording apparatus suitable for forming a medical image that is used for a medical diagnosis, and a test pattern for evaluating a quality of the medical image. The...
7221470 Image output device, image forming device and method for generating video hard copy  
A video buffer that updates and holds an inputted video signal by a unit of a frame image includes: an image data holding unit having a first image data holding unit that holds the latest frame...
7221469 Image communication and processing with common performance of processing of a file preparatory to further processing by different applications  
In a case where a conversion result image corresponding to a former image has been stored in a memory, control is performed to transmit this conversion result image without performing any image...
7221466 Image processing device, image processing method and image forming apparatus  
A plurality of image production processing parts each of which generates drawing data for image drawing processing from image drawing instructions obtained through data compression. A dividing part...
7221477 Method for adapting the colors printed by a second printing system to the colors printed by a first printing system  
In order to adapt the colors of a second printing system to those of a first printing system, the primary colors of the two printing systems that deviate from one another are first identified....
7218404 Printing apparatus, print control method, and recording medium storing print control program therein  
A printing apparatus discriminates whether received print data is print data converted into a job packet constructed by a header portion and a data portion or print data which is not converted into...
7218409 Peer-to-peer, plural-computing-device rendering/rasterizing structure and methodology for grid-distributed printing  
A distributed printing process which involves intercepting a print-job data stream, dividing that stream into data components on the basis of a pre-assessment made with respect to the...
7218410 Driverless, selectable multi-option tiff printing  
Proposed by the present invention is (a) a method, (b) structure for implementing the method, and (c) a resulting data structure that comes from implementation of the method, relating to...
7216092 Intelligent personalization system and method  
A system and method for facilitating the creation of personalized products is disclosed, wherein a user on a user computer can access a host merchant computer via a communication network, such as...
7212296 Use of queues  
A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to...
7212306 System and method for allocating random access memory in a multifunction peripheral device  
A system and method are provided for adaptively allocating random access memory (RAM) in an multifunctional peripheral (MFP) device with a plurality of components. The method comprises: supplying...
7212298 Image processing apparatus and image communication apparatus for protecting image information, and method for controlling the same  
An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving image information, a storage unit for storing the image information received by the receiving unit, an output unit for...
7212304 Sending/receiving raster/image data using a multifunction product  
A method and system for transferring raster/image data via a mail user agent using a multifunction device and standard Internet mail transfer mechanisms. An image is acquired in the multifunction...
7212299 Printing system having a plurality of printer drivers for different emulations  
A printing system includes a computer and a printer. The computer includes a plurality of printer drivers provided for different kinds of emulations, respectively. The computer compares...
7212297 Universal printing system  
A method and system for printing content from a computing device is provided. Content from the computing device is converted to a device independent format and printed in the device independent...
7209261 Color management system  
A method for applying individualized rendering parameters a single page basis to enable rendering of image data associated with a job having a plurality of pages includes: assigning a first set of...
7209256 Document processing method  
A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, the method including the steps of: directing the printer...
7209245 Printing systems, softwares, and methods for user characterization of unknown printer media  
Printing systems, softwares and methods permit an untrained user to characterize unknown printing media. A printing system includes a printing device that prints on a medium according to settings....
7209249 Method of and apparatus for image formation, and computer product  
Common portions of applications are extracted as common system service. A platform is formed by the common system service and a general purpose OS. A printer application, a copy application, and...
7209250 Data processing apparatus, print-setting method, and recording medium  
In the data processing apparatus which performs a predetermined process over data to be printed on a printer according to the printer, and then transfers the data, groups of various printing...
7206090 Method and apparatus for print order processing and program therefor  
When a print order is placed regarding image data, the deadline of printing processing can be estimated accurately. A user reserves the deadline and places the print order from an order reception...
7206091 Network printing device, and method and control program in device thereof  
In controlling a network printer, a driver program of the printer connected through the network is installed. A first network group identifier step acquires a group identifier of the network...
7206092 Image-forming system, control method therefor, image-forming apparatus, data processing method, and storage medium  
In an image-forming apparatus such as a digital copying apparatus, even when a digital copying apparatus having print data desired by a user is used by someone else or is in trouble, the apparatus...
7206082 Method and apparatus for routing pages to printers in a multi-print engine as a function of print job parameters  
A method and apparatus for routing page data of a print job to the printers in a multi-print engine based on print job parameters associated with the page data of the print job is disclosed. One or...
7206081 Method of setting output conditions of output apparatus, output system, and printing apparatus  
When data to be output in accordance with a predetermined protocol and attached information of the data are input in setting output conditions of an output apparatus capable of setting a plurality...
7206089 Serial communication apparatus and serial communication method  
At the time when the control signal line of a printer controller is connected to the input terminal of a three-state buffer, the control signal line is connected also to the D input terminal of the...
7202972 Method, computer program product and system for the transmission of computer data to an output device  
A method and system for outputting data from a computer to an output device, such as a computer, defines a master document in which variable and static data areas are defined. A variable data area...