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7636176 |
Image forming apparatus, method and storage medium
The invention seeks to suitably adjust the amount of a toner reduction in accordance with the type of image (object). To attain this object, an image forming apparatus according to the present...
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7623263 |
Settings for monotone printing and color printing
An inkjet printer performs printing by scanning a printing head having a plurality of ink nozzles, and has a monotone printing mode and a color printing mode. Under the condition of using the same...
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7612914 |
Production of color space conversion profile based on correspondence of grid points and ink amounts
A method for producing a profile specifying the correspondence relationship of values in different color spaces, includes a step of acquiring a first correspondence relationship that is a...
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7611219 |
Ejection control of quality-enhancing ink
A printing control method of generating dot data representing a state of dot formation at each pixel in a printed image represented by an given image data, by formation of dots in respective pixels...
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7593139 |
Light guide, illuminating device having the light guide, and image reading device and information processing apparatus having the illuminating device
In an illumination device, a light guide is adapted to emit the light from a face thereof and is provided with an area, on a face opposite to the light emitting face, for diffusing and/or...
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7583979 |
Mobile phone for capturing and printing images
A mobile phone is provided for capturing and printing images. The phone comprises a phone body defining front and rear faces. The front face has a keypad and display, and the rear face has a...
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7564580 |
Mobile telephone with printer and print media dispenser
A mobile telephone has a support structure and a camera device positioned on the support structure for electronically capturing and processing an image. A receptacle of the telephone body receives...
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7561316 |
Adjusting ink-usage parameters to reduce ink usage
One or more ink-usage parameters are adjusted based on ink remaining and historical ink usage, to reduce ink usage for an image to be printed on a sheet of media with ink. The image is printed on...
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7554690 |
Array type inkjet printer system including print head, resolution adjusting unit, rendering unit and scaler
An array type inkjet printer system having a print head with a plurality of nozzles formed therein in the horizontal scan direction includes a resolution adjusting unit for reducing a resolution in...
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7536129 |
Power transmitting apparatus, power switching apparatus, and driving apparatus of multi-function machine using the same
A driving apparatus of a multi-function machine includes a scanner unit scanning data recorded on a sheet of document and a document transport part to transport the sheet of document. A printer...
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7528989 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method which perform image processing for drawing information which includes image information and color correction information are provided....
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7529005 |
Method for processing a multi-colour image
A method is provided for processing digital multi-color images for the reproduction thereof on a color printing and/or copying system provided with a plurality of process colors defining a gamut....
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7512273 |
Digital ink labeling
Digital ink strokes may be fragmented to form a training data set. A neighborhood graph may be formed as a plurality of connected nodes. Relevant features of the training data may be determined in...
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7468808 |
Inkjet printer with retractable support and cover
An inkjet printer includes a body housing a print engine. The print engine is configured to transport and print upon print media. A retractable cover is pivotally mounted relative to the body and...
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7468810 |
Mobile phone with printhead and ink supply module
A mobile phone includes an elongate body defining a transverse print media path along which print media can be fed. A storage device is provided in which an image to be printed can be stored. A...
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7428073 |
Post card making device
To make it possible with a post card making device composed of an original reading device and an image printing device that an image is prepared on an upward facing original image preparation...
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7417768 |
Apparatus and method for mitigating colorant-deposition errors in incremental printing
CDE is measured for each nozzle array, to enable modification of a mapping between input image data and intended printing marks to compensate for the CDE. Printing proceeds using the modified...
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7408676 |
Ink jet printing with switched use of particular color ink depending on number of print head passes corresponding to print quality and speed
When three primary color inks and a particular color ink having a hue different from those of the three colors are used, the number of passes with regard to the same printing area is changeable,...
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7394564 |
Printing machine with a control unit that displays a plurality of key operation switches to control ink keys
In an initial state, a key control switch for adjusting opening degrees of ink keys and a display changeover switch are displayed on a display screen of a touch sensitive control panel. The key...
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7385730 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and printing apparatus and printing system using the image processing apparatus
In an apparatus for performing printing using a color ink-jet head having a plurality of ink-discharge-port strings corresponding to ink materials having different color tones, a high-quality image...
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7365874 |
Printer for authenticating a replaceable ink cartridge
A printer is provided for authenticating a replaceable ink cartridge. The printer includes a processor. The replaceable ink cartridge can be releasably coupled to the processor and includes a first...
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7306312 |
Image forming apparatus and image processing method
The image forming apparatus forms an image on a prescribed recording medium by carrying out digital halftoning using a threshold value matrix. The image forming apparatus comprises: a plurality of...
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7298522 |
Print control system and medium
A print control system for controlling a print of print target data containing color specifying information includes a data distinguishing module ( 12 ) for distinguishing between pieces of element...
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7298531 |
Digital image optimization incorporating paper evaluation
A system and method are provided for determining ink jet printing system parameters by selecting an appropriate linearizing transformation for application to images to be printed on a printing...
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7292364 |
Printing apparatus and print control method
When print data is stored as index data, a dedicated FIFO memory is interposed between a data processing circuit before index expansion, and an index expansion circuit, and temporarily stores the...
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7292368 |
Halftone proofing with inkjet printers
Techniques are described for preparing halftone bitmap images for printing on inkjet printers. The techniques may involve exclusive use of low-density inks to reproduce highlight colors and means...
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7289243 |
Apparatus and method for data compression optimized by print head architecture
An apparatus and method to compress data for a print head divides print head nozzle firetime instructions into a plurality of bytes. A control word represents each byte by one bit. Bytes containing...
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7289248 |
Image recording apparatus and image correction method
The image recording apparatus comprises: a recording head including recording elements which record an image onto a recording medium; an abnormal recording element specification device which...
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7280258 |
Logo data generating system, logo data generating method, and data storage medium
A logo data generating system and logo data generating method indicate the amount of ink required to print a logo during the logo editing and creation process. The system includes a source image...
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7245756 |
Liquid ejection inspecting method, liquid ejection inspector, and image forming apparatus
A printhead of an ink jet printer includes plural ejection nozzles for ejecting ink. In an ink ejection inspecting method for the printhead, the ejection nozzles are photographed in the printhead,...
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7245397 |
Apparatus and method for halftoning color image by quantizing tone level of subject pixel based on tone levels of neighboring pixels
An image forming apparatus is disclosed in which a quantization is effected for a halftone color image decomposed into pixels, in which a comparison is made, for respective separate...
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7245399 |
Method of printing page data with a pagewidth inkjet printhead
Compressed page data incorporating compressed contone CMYK data and bi-level black data is received. The contone CMYK data and bi-level black data are expanded in parallel operations. The CMYK...
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7202964 |
Determining raster image processor cycle count to fully utilize a printer
Commercial printers operate more efficiently when they run continuously after being started on a print job. Print job image data is processed by a predetermined number of raster image processors...
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7202970 |
Method and system of printing identification card (ID) using an inkjet printer
The present invention is embodied in a printing system for printing identification cards with durable full-color images using an inkjet printing device. In general, the present invention provides...
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7199896 |
Systems and methods for efficiently generating and supplying image data for tandem printers
A page to be printed is organized into a plurality of strips. To rendered the page using a tandem printer, each strip is rendered a plurality of times, once for each print engine of the tandem...
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7196814 |
Inkjet printer printhead interface circuit
An inkjet printer includes a processor that communicates, via a printhead interface circuit, with an electromechanical printhead having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles. The printhead interface...
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7196817 |
Printing of digital images using reduced colorant amounts while preserving perceived color
A method for modifying an input digital image having an (x,y) array of image pixels, each image pixel having an input code value for each of four or more color channels, to produce a depleted...
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7190485 |
Method for multilevel printing of digital images using reduced colorant amounts
A method for modifying an input digital image having an (x, y) array of pixels, each pixel having an input code value for one or more color channels, wherein said input code value has a nonlinear...
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7187469 |
Pagewidth inkjet printer with high data rate printer architecture
A pagewidth inkjet printer includes a support structure. A pagewidth inkjet printhead is mounted on the support structure. A print media feed mechanism feeds print media along an ink path and...
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7165824 |
Dead nozzle compensation
A printer controller for supplying dot data to a printhead in a predetermined order, the printhead comprising at least first and second printhead modules, each of which comprises a plurality of...
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7145693 |
Image processing apparatus and method
In ink-jet printing apparatuses having a monochrome head which is longer than a color head, if a monochrome image is processed as a color image, the printing speed cannot be improved. Accordingly,...
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7136189 |
Color halftoning using a multi-level successive-filling halftone screening algorithm
A method is provided for rendering a color image with a plurality of separations with a multi-level successive-filling halftoning process using a single screen for a plurality of separations. For a...
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7136195 |
Fluid capping mechanism
When a printhead is not in use, it remains filled with ink. In order to prevent evaporation of the ink through the nozzles of the printhead, and the consequential depositing of ink components in...
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7130460 |
Medical-use image recording apparatus and medical-use imaging system
An image recording method for visualizing an image signal of medical diagnosis, which has the steps of: inputting the image signal of medical diagnosis; processing the image signal of medical...
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7130080 |
Image processing apparatus for color conversion
The object of the invention is to provide an image processing apparatus that greatly enhances color conversion precision by considering in-plane uniformity and nonlinearity such as a gradation...
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7061644 |
Pagewidth printhead controller circuit
An integrated circuit fabricated on a single substrate that includes a first interface to a page-width inkjet printhead and a general-purpose processor that is connected to the first interface. The...
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7050195 |
Printed medium data storage
A method of, and apparatus for, printing information on a hardcopy medium includes the acceptance of data representing a first information and the acceptance of data representing a second...
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7027182 |
Printing a true-ink reference, and refining gray accuracy, for optimum color calibration in incremental printing
Ramps are printed with ink of a particular color, and also nominally in that color but by inks of other colors. A measured actual-ink ramp is a standard to fix the other-colors ramp, and correct...
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7027177 |
Digital printing system
A digital printing system that includes a personal computer and a printer. The computer includes a printer driver that receives and compresses print data. The printer is connected to the personal...
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7023584 |
Color calibration method and apparatus
A method, includes depositing a first quantity of a first colorant corresponding to a first color value and a second quantity of a second colorant corresponding to a second color value on a region...
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