Electrophotography inventions 06/06

20060140648 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes: a conductive supporting member; a photosensitive layer that is disposed on the conductive supporting member; and a non-contact IC tag that retains inspection information including a previously measured characteristic parameter of the photosensitive layer....

20060140647 - Method for detecting whether a cartridge installed in an imaging apparatus is potentially counterfeit: A method for detecting whether a cartridge installed in an imaging apparatus is potentially counterfeit includes determining whether a usage threshold has been reached by the cartridge; determining whether the cartridge was previously installed in the imaging apparatus; and determining that the cartridge is potentially counterfeit if the usage threshold...

20060140649 - Image forming apparatus: Upon restart of a job after the image forming apparatus is restored from document jam, a message that “If it is possible that the document might be damaged if fed by the document feeder, please press an escape key. If it is not possible that the document might be damaged...

20060140652 - Developer device and image forming apparatus: A laser printer is configured so that a process unit having a developing cartridge is detachably attachable to an apparatus body. A frame of the developing cartridge is formed with a toner chamber storing toner and a toner inlet that communicates with the toner chamber. A capping member is either...

20060140651 - Developing apparatus and image forming method: A developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic image with light chromatic toner and dark chromatic toner which have the same hue, the developing device includes a light color developing device for accommodating a developer containing the light chromatic toner and carrier to develop the electrostatic image; a dark color developing...

20060140650 - Image forming apparatus, toner counter and toner consumption calculating method: The number of toner dots to be formed or tone values of the respective dots are integrated and thus found count is multiplied by a predetermined coefficient, thereby calculating a toner consumption amount. As a value (E1 or E2) to which exposure power E is set to attain a target...

20060140653 - Image forming apparatus: A pulse-like DC voltage is applied from two power sources to transfer residual toner uniformizing means and toner charge amount control means, respectively, to expel transfer residual toner deposited on these means from these means onto a photosensitive drum. In a low humidity environment, the number of application of the...

20060140654 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus of the present invention predicts the occurrence of an image elongation, in other words, predicts that an image transferred is lengthened on a sheet due to slipping of the sheet with respect to a photoreceptor at a transfer nip portion. If the occurrence of the image...

20060140655 - Image forming: An image forming method includes measuring an electrical potential on a surface of a developer roller and adjusting a time varying component of a voltage applied to the developer roller using a measurement of the electrical potential....

20060140657 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device has a magnetic field generator; an electric power supplier for electric power supply to the magnetic field generator; electric power controller for controlling an electric power value to be supplied by the electric power supplier; a fixing member, disposed in the magnetic field, having an electroconductive layer...

20060140656 - Fixing device built in electrophotographic image forming apparatus, temperature control method for fixing device, and recording medium having embodied thereon computer program for the same: A fixing device built in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and a temperature control method for the fixing device are provided. The fixing device comprises a power supplying unit for supplying power to the fixing device; a control variable determination unit for determining control variables corresponding to operating states of...

20060140658 - Image forming apparatus, install method, and computer readable recording medium where an install program is recorded: An image forming apparatus where a program can be installed includes a determination part configured to determine a necessity of confirmation of information with respect to hardware of the image forming apparatus based on the program to be installed, the program stored in a storage medium set in the image...

20060140659 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a pair of support plates supporting the rotary shaft of a photoconductive drum at axially opposite ends of the drum. One of the support plates is openable away from the body of the apparatus and loaded with a contact forming member...

20060140660 - Method for charging a photoreceptor to extend the life of a charge receptor in a xerographic printer: A method of operating an electrostatographic printing apparatus, the apparatus including a charge-retentive member defining an imaging surface and a charging device for placing a charge on the imaging surface, including the steps of: providing a power supply to apply a bias to the bias charging roll; and applying a...

20060140662 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus provided with a fixing unit, the fixing unit comprising: a fixing member having a heating member therein; a pressing member that presses against the fixing member, wherein an image supporting material carrying a toner image is grasped and conveyed by a nipping portion formed between the...

20060140661 - Transferring and fixing system and method using a guided conveyor section and a free conveyor section: In a method and system for transfer printing of an electrostatic recharge toner image from an intermediate carrier onto a recording medium and for fixing of the transfer-printed toner image onto the recording medium, the recording medium lying on an electrostatically-chargeable conveyor belt and adhered thereto by electrostatic forces is...

20060140663 - Image forming apparatus with heat control of image bearing member: An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formed and toner deposited to form a toner image, a heater disposed at a position out of contact with the surface of the image bearing member to output radiant heat to the image bearing...

20060140664 - Process cartridge for image-forming device: A charger has a charging wire that extends in the axial direction and that has one end and another end. The charger is configured to charge the image-bearing member. A cleaning member is movable in the axial direction for cleaning the charging wire. The cleaning member is movable between a...

20060140665 - Image forming apparatus: A tandem image forming unit is provided with an adhering substance removal mode for performing a cleaning operation of a photoreceptor and an intermediate transfer body at the time other than the time of image formation. In the adhering substance removal mode, a photoreceptor cleaning unit removes excess toner from...

20060140666 - Sealing member for sealing magnetic particles and developing apparatus using the sealing member: A developing apparatus includes a developing container for containing a developer; a developer carrying member to be rotated while carrying the developer thereon, the developer carrying member being provided in an opening portion of the developer container; and a sealing member which extends in a circumferential direction of the developer...

20060140667 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming cartridges removably mounted to an apparatus body one above the other is disclosed. Structural members each partition off a space between nearby image forming cartridges mounted to the apparatus body. The apparatus is capable of obviating banding ascribable to the...

20060140669 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a housing, a series of photoconductors on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, and developing devices, which each include a developing agent carrier for holding a developing agent. Also, the apparatus may include a holder, which is removable from the housing,...

20060140670 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a scanning unit for reading images of a document, and a printing unit that includes an exposing unit to form an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image read by the scanning unit. The exposing unit is mounted on the scanning unit to be moved...

20060140668 - Image forming apparatus and cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a belt unit, a plurality of photosensitive drums, a cartridge, a casing, a cartridge holding unit and a first guide unit. The looped belt has a first surface outside of the loop, and is stretched to form a substantially straight portion on the loop that...

20060140671 - Image carrying member cartridge and image forming apparatus: An image carrying member cartridge includes an image carrying member; a charging device disposed along an axial direction of the image carrying member for charging the image carrying member; a cleaning member disposed below the charging device and along the axial direction of the image carrying member and provided to...

20060140672 - Photoreceptor drums, methods and apparatus for assembling the same, and image-forming apparatus employing the same: An object of the invention is to provide a photoreceptor drum exceedingly advantageous for obtaining clear images free from positional image shifting and image blurring. In the invention, a photoreceptor drum (12) is constituted of a drum main body (14) and a first and second flange member (16) and (18)...

20060140674 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes: a main body; at least one photosensitive member; an exposing unit; a plurality of developing units; a transferring unit; and a first holding unit. The photosensitive member has an axis. The first holding unit holds the plurality of developing units that are arranged in a row...

20060140673 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes: a main body; at least one photosensitive member; a plurality of developing units; a transferring unit; a first holding unit; and a guiding unit. The photosensitive member has a support shaft. Each developing unit has a developer-accommodating section that accommodates developer. The developer-accommodating section has an...

20060140675 - Electrophotographic image forming device: An electrophotographic image forming device includes an image forming unit to apply a developer to a paper and to form an image thereon. The electrophotographic image forming device further includes a fusing unit having a fusing roller to receive the paper from the image forming unit, to fix the developer...

20060140676 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes photosensitive drums, a drum gear, a drum gear rotating body, a drum drive gear, and a drum drive gear rotating body. The drum gear is provided on an axial end of each photosensitive drum. The drum gear rotating body is provided adjacent to the drum gear...

20060140677 - Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method: The image-forming apparatus and an image-forming method of the present invention stably provides a high-quality image having a surface with a uniform gloss value, without reduction in image density, and with good fixability. The image-forming apparatus and image-forming method of the present invention provide are characterized in that white toner...

20060140678 - Developing unit and wet image forming apparatus having the same: The developing unit has a developer receptacle containing liquid developer, a deposit roller rotatively disposed substantially below a surface of the liquid developer of the developer receptacle, a developing roller rotatively disposed over the deposit roller so that a part thereof submerges in the liquid developer and a metering roller...

20060140679 - Developing apparatus having improved agitation effect: A developing apparatus for use in an image forming apparatus includes a developing roller, a developing agent, a refilling port, a transport member, and an agitation enhancer. The developing agent includes toner particles and carrier particles and is refilled to the developing apparatus from the refilling port. The transport member...

20060140681 - Developing apparatus, developer container, and image forming apparatus: In a developing apparatus provided with developer container attaching and detaching means that makes a developer container attachable to and detachable from a developing device, inadvertent operation preventing means is provided that disables, when the developing apparatus is detached from an image forming apparatus main body, operation of the developer...

20060140680 - Feeding of toner: Device and method for feeding of toner powder to a manifold apparatus (1) comprising at least one toner container (2), which device (3) comprises at least one receptacle (4) for toner powder, a feeding device (5) and a delivery conduit (6) in communication with the receptacle (4). The invention is...

20060140682 - Image forming apparatus: An electrostatic latent image is formed on an image carrier. A developer includes a container containing toner, a first roller facing the image carrier and rotated to cause the toner to adhere onto the image carrier to develop the electrostatic latent image as a toner image, a second roller supplying...

20060140683 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A cartridge includes a developing roller that contacts a photosensitive member along an axial direction thereof and carries and supplies a developing agent to the photosensitive member. A developing agent regulating device is provided in the cartridge to regulate an amount of developing agent provided on the developing roller. The...

20060140684 - Image formation apparatus: In a printer 10 provided with image formation units 60a to 60d arranged in tandem so as to be in contact with an intermediate transfer belt 52 that is stretched taut between a driving roller 53 and driven rollers 56a to 56c, the intermediate transfer belt 52 moves at speed...

20060140685 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: If a velocity calculated by a velocity calculating unit deviates from a normal range, a target velocity is used as a feedback amount, an actuation amount corresponding to a deviation Ve=0 between the feedback amount Vf=Vt and the target velocity Vt is calculated, and a driving power corresponding to this...

20060140686 - Method of determining color register and/or register errors in a printing machine: Color register and/or register errors are detected in a printing machine by using triangles serving as register marks. A first triangle is printed onto a sheet near the leading edge and a second triangle is printed onto a sheet near its trailing edge. The first triangle and the second triangle...

20060140687 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus: A transfer device includes a transfer roller that is rotatably provided facing an image carrying member, an urging device that urges the transfer roller in a direction that the transfer roller presses the image carrying member, and a regulating roller that is provided to a shaft commonly used with the...

20060140689 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same: A fixing device for fixing image information on a recording medium passing a nip of the present invention includes a rotatable member for transferring and conveying a non-fixed image, a first heating means for heating an image present on the rotatable member and a rotatable pressing member forming a nip...

20060140688 - Foam filling member: A foam filling member that can hold a foam sheet in a looped shape stably, without increasing the number of components, to provide improved vibration suppression and sound insulation. The strip-like foam sheet is formed in a looped shape by bending round it, so that both end portions of the...

20060140690 - Fixing unit: A fixing unit includes: a heat roller that is rotatably supported and that supplies heat for fixing; and a first and a second tubular heaters that are disposed in parallel in the heat roller along an axis thereof and that each have on an outer circumferential surface thereof one protruding...

20060140691 - Image printer with common filter to filter common operating frequency band of fixing module and switch mode power supply module: An image printer uses a common filter to remove harmonic waves generated at a common operating frequency band of a fixing module to fix toner onto a print medium using high frequency power generated from a high frequency generator and a switch mode power supply module to supply operating power...

20060140692 - Cleaning blade member and method for producing the same: The invention provides a cleaning blade member having a controlled friction coefficient and a method for producing the same. The cleaning blade member, for use in a cleaning part for removing toner deposits, is formed of a polyurethane having a ratio of rebound resilience at 25° C. to Young's modulus...

20060140693 - Image reading apparatus: An image reading apparatus which can prevent floating of an original disposed on an original table due to wind pressure when an original cover is opened. As an original holding mechanism having a thrust pin which is slidably guided in a direction perpendicular to an inner face of an original...

20060140694 - Image formation apparatus and sheet conveyance apparatus: A sheet conveyance apparatus, includes: a paper feed cassette which is detachably attached to an apparatus body; a conveyance unit which separates and conveys a sheet from the paper feed cassette; a swing member which is swingably supported about a shaft relative to the apparatus body, and whose swing positions...

20060140695 - Sheet cassette and image forming apparatus: A sheet cassette (1) according to the present invention has a double structure portion (10) including an upper plate (11) and a lower plate (12). The lower plate (12) has a first guide groove (13) elongated widthwise of a sheet to be contained in the cassette and having a plurality...

20060140696 - Curl-correcting device for image-forming apparatus: A curl-correcting device includes a first curl-correcting section and a second curl-correcting section. The first curl-correcting section is disposed on a conveying path along which a recording medium is conveyed in a conveying direction. The first curl-correcting section corrects curl in a recording medium having a first thickness. The second...

20060133830 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus and method where a first terminal group comprises one or more host terminals, a second terminal group is connected to the first terminal group via a network and comprises one or more host terminals, and an image forming apparatus is connected to the first and second...

20060133829 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and network image processing system: An image processing apparatus according to an aspect of this invention comprises an image processing unit which processes an image, a managing unit which manages history information about the image processing, and an output unit which outputs the history information of a general-purpose format....

20060133828 - Method of providing device usage data: A data retrieval method is provided that includes providing a device that comprises a unit, storing usage data of the device in a database based on information stored in a CRUM used in the unit, providing access to the database to a user, and providing the usage data to the...

20060133831 - Device identification method and system: A product identification method and associated system may include providing an identification element that corresponds to a consumable product, the identification element at least one of being portable by a user and being readable by a scanner; and at least one of marking information related to the consumable product on...

20060133832 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The attenuation characteristic of the surface potential of a photosensitive drum 20 is periodically detected. A target value −Vgt for a grid bias voltage −Vg applied to a charging unit 24, which is necessary to maintain, at a set value −Vods, the charging potential −Vod of the developing portion of...

20060133833 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including first and second image forming portions, and a device for detecting a type of an image display medium, image formation by the first image forming portion being allowed when the medium type is a normal image display medium (PP), and image formation by the second...

20060133834 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively preventing resonance of frequencies: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging member, and a measuring member. The image forming member is configured to bear an image. The charging member is configured to charge a surface of the image bearing member when a direct current bias voltage is added to at...

20060133835 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for carrying out an image forming process with a detachably mountable image forming unit mounted thereon, when the mounting of the image forming unit has been detected, whether the mounted image forming unit is a new one is discriminated. Then, unit control information held by an...

20060133836 - Image heating apparatus and glossiness increasing apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes first image heating means for heating a toner image on a recording material; first temperature detecting means for detecting a temperature of the first image heating means; second image heating means for heating the toner image on the recording material heated by the first image...

20060133837 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that can prevent the generation of filming with the simplest possible configuration even if a plurality of photosensitive member linear velocities are provided and the AC frequency of the charge apparatus is fixed. A charge apparatus that charges by uniformly superimposing on a photosensitive member an...

20060133838 - Image forming apparatus and method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes an image data input unit; an image forming unit adapted to print an image on a printing sheet in accordance with image data from the image data input unit; a control unit connected to the image forming unit; and a billing setting unit adapted to...

20060133841 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus provided with: An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section for forming an image based on image data; a user-interface for accepting inputs from an operator and for displaying a display screen for the operator; a memory for storing the display screen; a...

20060133840 - Operation panel and image forming apparatus: An operation panel includes a panel surface, a key mounting surface, and a key. The panel surface is exposed to outside of a main apparatus. The key mounting surface is recessed by a predetermined length from the panel surface. The key is mounted on the key mounting surface to protrude...

20060133839 - Simple adjustment of printing image and machine parameters for an electrophotographic printer or copier: In a method or system for operation of at least one electrophotographic printing or copying system, at least one setting value of a parameter of a printing unit of the printing or copying system is displayed via a graphical user interface with a graphical representation. At least the setting value...

20060133843 - Color image forming apparatus, and program and method of controlling a color image forming apparatus: In a color image forming apparatus, a color mode is switched from a full color mode to a single color mode as follows. When the length of an image of a last page in the full color mode is less than the distance from a first-transferring position of a most...

20060133842 - Printing apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether image data associated with printing setting data indicative of a printing setting can be printed at the printing setting, a first printing processing unit configured to print the image data at the printing setting when the determination unit...

20060133844 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A multi-function printing apparatus for executing a duplex print job for printing on both surfaces of a sheet is provided. The multi-function printing apparatus includes a network controller for inputting the duplex print job, a hard disk drive for storing the duplex print job, a printing unit for printing on...

20060133845 - Paper control of document processing: A method and apparatus for using a sheet of paper to control document processing is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises scanning a first sheet of paper and a first document, identifying one or more processing operations identified on the first sheet of paper, performing the one or more...

20060133846 - Heating device, fuser device, and image forming apparatus: A heating device includes a heating unit, a main power supply device configured to supply an electric power to the heating unit from an external power supply, an auxiliary power supply device configured to be chargeable by use of the external power supply, and a charger configured to charge the...

20060133847 - System and a method for sealing a cartridge: A system and a method are provided for sealing a cartridge during a recharging or a refilling of a toner hopper of the cartridge with a toner. The cartridge is filled with the toner through a toner port of the toner hopper. The toner hopper and a shutter drum assembly...

20060133848 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: A dual-gasket seal for a toner cartridge includes a first gasket, a second gasket, a removable seal disposed between the first gasket and the second gasket, and a lubricating element attached a first end of the second gasket and adapted to aid the sliding of the removable seal when the...

20060133849 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner section, an image forming section, and a functional unit. The scanner section is configured to read image information by scanning an image bearing side of a document sheet. The image forming section is located above or below the scanner section with a space...

20060133850 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus that includes a drum cartridge, a developer cartridge, a coupling mechanism for interlocking the drum cartridge and the developer cartridge, a releasing cam for releasing the interlock provided by the coupling mechanism, and a toner accommodating chamber for accommodating toner. When the amount of toner accommodated in...

20060133851 - Developing apparatus: A developing device includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member with a developer, wherein an oscillating electric field is formed between the developer carrying member and the image bearing member; a jumping developer blocking member, provided between...

20060133852 - Developer cartridge: A developer cartridge for a wet-type image forming apparatus comprises a cartridge body in which developer is stored. The cartridge body has a supply hole formed thereon to supply the developer in the cartridge to the image forming apparatus. A filter is disposed in the cartridge body to improve the...

20060133853 - Wet-type image forming apparatus and method thereof: A wet-type image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer medium for receiving images which are formed in a plurality of photosensitive media and overlapped thereon to form an image and transferring the image to a print medium. The intermediate transfer medium runs along a predetermined path. A drying unit heats...

20060133855 - Developer supply container and coupling member used therefor: A coupling member to be engaged by snap hooking with an engaging hole provided to a driving portion of a main assembly of an image forming apparatus is provided with a snap hook portion at an entire peripheral surface thereof so as to prevent idle running at the time of...

20060133854 - Systems and methods for in-situ replenishment of consumable items: A self-replenishing image forming apparatus replenishes reservoirs of consumable materials using packages of the consumable materials transported in the marking media path of the image forming apparatus. The packages are separated from the regular marking media at a sheet diverter, the consumable material is unpackaged, and transformed into a form...

20060133856 - Developer receiving vessel and image forming device: An object of the invention is to provide a developer container without a complicated mechanism that allows a powdered developer to be supplied to the main body of an image forming apparatus while the developer container main body containing a developer is rotatably supported stably and the developer contained therein...

20060133857 - Image forming apparatus: There is described an image forming apparatus for forming a high-density image by using the reversal developing method and suppressing an occurrence of irregularities. The apparatus includes an image bearing member, a latent image forming device to form an electrostatic latent image, a magnetic field generating device to generate a...

20060133858 - Image forming apparatus, developing apparatus, and finely-divided toner particle collecting apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image by developing a latent image formed on an image carrier, using a developer including a toner and a carrier. The image forming apparatus comprises: a developer conveying member that conveys the developer; a first collecting unit that collects, by generating a first...

20060133859 - Developing device and image forming apparatus adopting the same: A developing device prevents deterioration of toner, i.e., prevent the toner from being damaged, or fused onto the blade, to realize a more reliable developing operation. In the developing device, an electron emitting section is provided onto the toner regulation blade in which apertures (151) are formed, wherein each of...

20060133860 - Image forming apparatus and method thereof: An image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image with liquid developer, and a method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photoconductors on which developer images having carrier rates different from each other are formed with corresponding liquid developers. An image transfer member is disposed to...

20060133861 - Device and method for belt speed control, and image forming apparatus: A scale including equally spaced marks is attached to a belt in a direction of movement of the belt such that a gap is formed between a first end and a second end of the scale. A first sensor and a second sensor detect the marks on the scale and...

20060133862 - Transfer apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method of correcting moving speed of belt: A scale is provided along at least one side of a portion of the belt. A sensor reads the scale on the belt to obtain scale information. An actual speed calculating unit calculates a speed of the belt from the scale information. A speed calculating unit calculates a speed of...

20060133863 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided in which a toner is prevented from flowing and being agglomerated, at the time of application of a fixer fluid to a toner image so as to fix the toner image to a recording medium, and the recording medium is prevented from generating curl...

20060133864 - Fixing device: A fixing apparatus is provided that enables a recording medium that has undergone heat-fixing to be separated smoothly from a heating medium without causing a sheet jam or image disturbance. In this apparatus, there are provided on the guide surface of a separator two step parts raised along the guide...

20060133865 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a conveying unit including plural conveying paths, a cooling fan, an air duct including a first air-blowing outlet and a second air-blowing outlet for conducting air from the cooling fan to an interior of the apparatus, and an...

20060133866 - Image forming apparatus and fixer fluid applying roller: An image forming apparatus is provided in which a toner image is fixed onto a recording medium with use of a fixer fluid in liquid form without causing generation of curls and wrinkles in the recording medium, the amount of the fixer fluid to be used can be reduced, even...

20060133867 - Method of preventing media wrinkling: An apparatus and method are provided for the reduction of wrinkles formed in sheets of paper media which may contain various levels of absorbed moisture across the surface and which are processed through a fuser section of a printing or copying device. Protruding features may be provided laterally spaced apart...

20060133868 - Image forming apparatus: An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material, including a heating unit having a heater and a flexible sleeve to be rotated in contact with the heater; an elastic roller for constituting a nip portion, in cooperation with the heater and through the flexible sleeve,...

20060133869 - Image forming apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material in a nip; nip forming means for cooperating with the belt to form the nip; swing means for swing the belt in a widthwise direction of the belt; and returning means for reducing, when...

20060133871 - Image forming apparatus: Using an adhesive toner that is lower in a lower-limit temperature of a fixable temperature than an image forming toner, the image forming toner and the adhesive toner are formed on one and the same transfer material. A document is sealed by an adhesive force of the adhesive toner, at...

20060133870 - Method and apparatus for printing using a tandem electrostatographic printer: A tandem color electrostatographic printer apparatus has five or more color printing stations or modules for applying respective color separation toner images to a receiver member to form a pentachrome color image in a single pass. A fuser station fuses the pentachrome color image. A clear toner overcoat is then...

20060133872 - Lubricant applying unit and image forming apparatus: A lubricant applying unit includes a lubricant applying member, and a leveling member for use in an image forming apparatus having a photosensitive member. The lubricant applying member applies lubricant on a surface of the photosensitive member, and the leveling member levels off the lubricant on the surface of the...

20060133873 - Belt drive controlling method, belt drive controlling apparatus, belt apparatus, image forming apparatus, and computer product: An endless belt is spanned around at least one driving member and at least one supporting member. The driving member is driven by a pulse motor. An angular displacement of the driving member is detected, a difference between detected angular displacement and a target angular displacement is calculated, a frequency...

20060133875 - Image forming apparatus, paper sheet transporting device, and paper sheet feeding device: An image forming apparatus 1 is arranged such that a manual paper sheet feeding section 14 is detachably installed in a position corresponding to a manual transportation path 13. Further, the manual paper sheet feeding section 14 may be detached from the manual transportation path 13. With this, a paper...

20060133874 - Printing control apparatus to set paper feed standby time during manual feed and method thereof: A printing control apparatus and a method of setting a paper feed standby time during a printing operation in a manual paper feed mode includes a printer driver which transmits a document to print and generates a command regarding a preset paper feed standby time, and a communication interface which...

20060133876 - Image recording sheet moistening device and image printing apparatus: A sheet moistening device comprises a pair of moistening rollers which respectively have porous layers and form a nip to convey a sheet, and a dampening mechanism which supplies water to at least one of the pair of moistening rollers through a surface thereof. In the sheet moistening device, a...

20060127105 - Image forming apparatus having a discrimination function about refilled toner and method thereof: An image forming apparatus capable of determining whether a toner cartridge is a refilled toner cartridge and method thereof is provided. The image forming apparatus comprises a cartridge mount part configured to receive a toner cartridge with a toner memory. The toner memory stores information for determining whether a toner...

20060127106 - Conveying mechanism: The present invention provides a conveying mechanism capable of accurately detecting a conveyance amount of an object to be conveyed with a simple configuration. A magnetic sensor is fixed to a casing along a locus of a contact point between a sheet and a conveying roller on the basis of...

20060127107 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling apparatus: Periodically, the dark attenuation characteristic of the electric potential on the surface of the photo conductor drum 20 is detected. Then, the target value −Vgt of the grid bias voltage −Vg of the charging unit 24 necessary for maintaining the charged electric potential −Vod of the developing position of the...

20060127109 - Image forming apparatus, toner density control method, toner density control program and storage medium for storing the program: An amount of toner consumption accompanying development of an image corresponding to the image data is calculated based on image data, and a corrected consumption amount is calculated by multiplying the calculated amount of toner consumption by a predetermined correction ratio that is less than 1. Further, toner is supplied...

20060127108 - Image forming device and toner consumption amount estimating method: An image forming apparatus includes: toner supply amount detecting means for detecting a toner supply amount to a developer tank; detecting means for detecting a signal value of each pixel of an image; and toner consumption amount estimating means for estimating a toner consumption amount, based on the signal value....

20060127110 - In-situ optical sensor for measurement of toner concentration: A developer apparatus for developing an image, including a sump for storing a quantity of developer material comprised of toner of a first color and carrier material, a donor member for developing the image with toner; an auger for transporting developer material within the sump; a toner concentration sensor for...

20060127111 - Toner concentration sensor: A toner concentration sensor used in an electrophotographic recording apparatus using a 2-component developing method, includes a storage storing a developer including a toner and a carrier, a first oscillator including a first resonance circuit including a coil and a condenser, the coil of the first resonance circuit being disposed...

20060127112 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of performing an image forming operation together with temperature rise by heating of a fixing apparatus to ensure a good fixability and a shortest first print out time and to prevent loss of power consumption without burdening a constitutional member of the image forming apparatus...

20060127113 - Image forming apparatus and method for forming images: An image forming apparatus configured to carry out development using a light toner and a dark toner having substantially the same hue, includes a pattern forming unit configured to form a pattern using a dark toner and a light toner, a pattern reading unit configured to read the density of...

20060127114 - Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method: In an image-forming apparatus being selectable between a four-color mode forming images using only cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toner and a six-color mode forming images using light cyan and light magenta toner in addition to the four-color toner, by automatically selecting the correction between density correction and gradation correction...

20060127115 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: It is an object of the preset invention to prevent jamming with small-sized print materials without disturbing an image located at a trailing end of a print material. An image forming apparatus has a photosensitive drum that carries a toner image, a transfer device which can apply a transfer bias...

20060127116 - Transfer device for forming a stable transfer electric field, and an image forming apparatus including the transfer device: A transfer device transfers a visual image from an image carrier to a recording medium. The transfer device includes a first transfer element that moves and receives the visual image from the image carrier on a first surface of the first transfer element, a second transfer element provided opposite to...

20060127117 - User interface for differential gloss images: The present disclosure relates to providing a user interface for the effective generation of differential gloss images. The user is instructed to indicate the base primary image data, and the desired gloss image data. This data may be displayed for verification and position adjustment by superimposition of the gloss image...

20060127119 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device for fixing developer on a recording medium; a heating device for heating the fixing device; a cooling device for cooling the fixing device; a temperature detecting device for detecting a temperature of the fixing device; a heating device control unit for controlling...

20060127118 - Image forming apparatus and method to supply power to a fixing device: A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording material in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member configured to fix an image formed on the recording material, a heating part that heats the fixing member, a storage unit that is charged by an external power source...

20060127120 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a development unit, a transfer member, and a blade member. The development unit develops a latent image on an image bearing member and forms a toner image. The transfer member transfers the toner image on the image bearing member to a transfer material. The blade...

20060127121 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus 1 capable of reserving a plurality of printing jobs, the suspended state retention time for retaining the suspended state is preset by the operation of an operation section 142. When a printing job during output operation has been suspended, a timing section 17 starts to...

20060127122 - Image forming system: There is described an image forming system comprising an image forming section, a finishing process section, wherein restriction contents of finishing process function are set in the image forming system, and a finishing process function resetting section that resets the restriction contents of the finishing process function in accordance with...

20060127123 - Image forming apparatus, process cartridge and charger: Dust collection portions are installed at both ends of a holding plate installed on a shield plate of a charger. On the other hand, in a cleaning device, a dust collection member is installed so as to make contact with the shield plate and holding plate. Dust such as discharge...

20060127124 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed, a development unit which develops the electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member using a developer and forms a developer image, a first transfer member which transfers the developer image on the image...

20060127125 - Toner transport roller: A toner transport roller (10) including a sealing member (3), for preventing leak of toner, which contacts a peripheral surface of a rubber roller (1) thereof slidably. The toner transport roller (10) contains 3 to 50 parts by mass of alumina for 100 parts by mass of an ionic-conductive rubber...

20060127126 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus includes an organic photo conductor, an OPC frame part to support the organic photo conductor, a developing roller to develop a latent image formed on the organic photo conductor by supplying a developer, a developing roller frame part to support the developing roller, a developer storing part...

20060127127 - Duplex printing apparatus: A duplex printing apparatus having a main body housing, an image forming part accommodated in the main body housing for forming images, a fixing part for supplying heat and pressure to a paper, and a duplex printing part to reverse the paper passing through the fixing part on a conveyance...

20060127129 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: Provided is an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a print unit printing having a plurality of developer cartridges, each of which has a photoreceptor drum disposed therein. A plurality of fixing members are movable between a first position where the developer cartridges are installed and removed and...

20060127128 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus to which a process cartridge and a developer cartridge for supplying a developer to the process cartridge independently from each other, includes i) the process cartridge including, an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a developing roller for developing a latent image formed on the drum; a first...

20060127130 - Recording medium conveying unit and image forming apparatus: A pair of resist rollers, a transferring device, a fixing device, a recording medium discharging device, and a recording medium reversing device are integrated into a recording medium conveying unit. The recording medium conveying unit can be drawn out of a main unit of an image forming apparatus....

20060127131 - Image forming apparatus, drum unit, image forming module, and method of insertion and removal of a damper into and from an image carrier drum: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor belt formed by either a belt or a thin-walled cylinder. A charging unit that sets bias characteristics of the photoreceptor belt has an arrangement to approach towards the photoreceptor belt. A damper is provided on a side of the photoreceptor belt opposite to...

20060127133 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having an image bearing member rotatable with an electrostatic image borne thereon, a developer carrying member rotated with a developer carried thereon and conveying the developer to a developing portion to effect the development of the electrostatic image, and an image bearing member speed controlling device...

20060127132 - Method and apparatus for characterizing and compensating drive train rotational velocity errors: Drive train motor speed is varied in a manner that compensates for characteristic rotational velocity errors of the associated drive train, such as by modulating a drive train motor speed control signal at a modulation phase and amplitude derived from the characterized rotational velocity error. Characterization can be performed on...

20060127134 - Image forming apparatus featuring a transparent image forming station to achieve uniform gloss: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming stations and a transferring device. Each image forming station includes an image carrier for carrying an electrostatic image and a developing device for developing the electrostatic image with toner. The transferring device transfers toner images formed by the plurality of...

20060127135 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus has a developing device, in which are integrated a plurality of developers; a photosensitive member, on which are formed toner images by means of the plurality of developers; a transfer member, onto which the toner images of the photosensitive member are transferred; a control portion, which,...

20060127136 - Developing device and process cartridge for an image forming apparatus: A method of developing a latent image formed on an image carrier with toner, including causing a developer carrier, which faces the image carrier and accommodates a magnet therein, to support a developer having a toner and a magnetic carrier supporting the toner and convey the developer to a developing...

20060127137 - Method and device for doctor blade retention: A toner cartridge for an image forming apparatus, the cartridge having: a housing defining a toner reservoir; a developer roller supported by the housing; a doctor blade supported by the housing and positioned adjacent the developer roller; and a retainer connected to the housing and positioned over a side of...

20060127138 - Semiconductive endless belt and electrophotographic apparatus: A semiconductive endless belt formed of a resin composition containing a resin capable of being formed into a film only by removing a solvent from a resin solution, and having a pencil hardness of 3H or more according to JIS K 5400 and a refractive index of 1.75 or more...

20060127139 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a plurality of developing devices, an intermediate transfer medium, primary transfer members, and a secondary transfer member for transferring toner images onto a transfer material. A full-color mode and a monocolor mode are selectively carried out. The image forming apparatus...

20060127140 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is operable in a first mode where a toner images on one of a plurality of image bearing members are transferred to an intermediate transfer belt; and in a second mode where toner images on the image bearing members are superimposedly transferred to toner images on...

20060127141 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive medium on which an image is formed. An intermediate transfer medium is disposed to contact the photosensitive medium and to rotate in a closed loop, and onto which the image formed on the photosensitive medium is transferred. A transferring and fusing unit is...

20060127143 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The present invention has as its object to provide an image forming apparatus which can well perform both-side image forming for forming an image of high gloss on one side of a recording sheet and forming an image of non-gloss or low gloss on the other side thereof, and for...

20060127144 - Image heating apparatus: A fixing apparatus has a belt-shaped rotary member, a pressure member urged against the rotary member to form a nip portion, and a heater for the rotary member. A portion of the rotary member is maintained so that the belt portion has a radius of curvature smaller than an inner...

20060127142 - Image heating device: The present invention relates to an image heating device comprising, a first belt which heats an image on a recording material at a nip, a second belt which forms the nip with the first belt, a first pressure member and a first rotating member which press the first belt at...

20060127145 - Cleaning unit and image forming apparatus loading the same: A cleaning unit that performs image formation by use of an amorphous and spherical toners of a plurality of different colors and sequentially performs cleaning for each of the colors has: toner remaining-removing switching means that is provided upstream of a blade in the rotation direction of an image carrier...

20060127146 - Cleaning member, cleaning unit, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image-forming apparatus: A cleaning member configured to remove developer from an electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a longitudinally-shaped planar elastic blade that comes into contact with the electrophotographic photosensitive member to remove the developer from a surface thereof; and a holder supporting the elastic blade. The holder includes an engaging part that engages...

20060127147 - Cleaning brush and image forming apparatus: A cleaning brush can prevent “image deletion” and “toner filming” attributable to uneven wear, a streak, an injury, etc. on an image bearing member caused by endurance, and a streak on the image bearing member or the like surface-roughened for the purposes of a long life and a high quality...

20060127148 - Image forming apparatus with paper thickness detection unit for detecting overlap of regular and insertion sheets: An image forming apparatus has a first stacking unit for stacking regular sheets on which images are formed, an image forming unit for forming an image on a regular sheet fed from the first stacking unit, a second stacking unit for stacking the insertion sheets, a delivery unit for discharging...

20060127149 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an image forming part configured to form an image on a recording medium, a feed part for feeding the recording medium, a manual feed part for manually feeding the recording medium, and a shutter member configured to open and close a manual...

20060127150 - Image forming device, image forming method, and computer readable storage medium storing image forming program: A printer, as an image forming device, identifies the direction of the shift of the tab on each of the index sheets stacked in paper trays, identifies as to whether the sheets to be fed to the printing unit with the top surface of each index sheets stacked in the...

20060127151 - Process, a printing machine, and a toner for improving one characteristic of a printing medium and/or a printed format: At least one physical characteristic of a printed format on a printing medium and/or at least one physical characteristic of the printing medium is improved. At least one essentially colorless toner containing at least one substance that affects at least one physical characteristic, is applied to the printing medium and/or...

20060127152 - Image removing method, image removing device, and image forming apparatus: An image removing method including bringing an outermost layer of a removing member into contact with an image fixed on an image support without applying a liquid to the image while heating the image and the outermost layer; and separating the removing member from the image support to remove the...

20060115281 - Image forming device, customer replaceable unit host device, and controlling methods thereof: An image forming device, a customer replaceable unit host device in communication with the image forming device, and controlling methods thereof. The image forming device includes a recording material storage medium, a customer replaceable unit memory (CRUM) associated with the recording material storage medium to store usage information for replaceable...

20060115282 - Image forming apparatus and touch panel display method of the same: When there are sheets of paper in paper cassettes of a main body of an apparatus, symbols of a paper size display of an image forming apparatus graphic displayed on a touch panel are lit and indicated at clear density. On the other hand, when the paper cassettes are empty,...

20060115283 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: Image forming histories when decolorization toner is used by a first counter or a second counter and when ordinary toner is used are counted respectively, and image forming histories of a decolorization developing device and an ordinary developing device are counted by a third counter or a fourth counter, and...

20060115284 - Semi-automatic image quality adjustment for multiple marking engine systems: Using a document scanner or other image input device of an image or document processing system to periodically scan or image printed test images from a plurality of marking engines replaces internal sensors as a feedback means in image quality control. For example, image lightness (L*) is controlled by periodically...

20060115285 - Xerographic device streak failure recovery: Disclosed is an image forming method for an electrophotographic photoreceptor, comprising: detecting a first streak in a first image; identifying the first streak location; shifting a charge device and marking a second image; identifying a second streak location; comparing the first streak location with the second streak location and determining...

20060115286 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and toner, process cartridge and image forming method therefor: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member configured to bear an electrostatic latent image; a charging device configured to charge the image bearing member by applying a DC voltage overlapped with an AC voltage to the image bearing member; an AC current detector configured to detect an AC...

20060115287 - Glossing system for use in a printing system: A sensor system for detecting gloss levels of a printed image on a substrate generated by a print engine, including: a fixing member for fixing marking particles on the substrate; an optical sensor for sensing a gloss value of the surface of the fixing member; and means for correlating the...

20060115288 - Glossing system for use in a tipp architecture: In a tightly integrated parallel printing architecture having at least a first print engine and a second print engine, the first print engine and a second print engine includes a first fuser system having a first fusing member for fusing marking particles on the substrate and second fuser system having...

20060115289 - Image forming apparatus: A fixing device for an image forming apparatus includes a heating roller and a press roller. The press roller is pressed against the heating roller, and the heating roller and the press roller operate to fix an image on a document. The fixing device also includes a heat source that...

20060115290 - Image forming apparatus and output control method of the same: An image forming apparatus includes an output processing device determining an output process time in accordance with reservation information of a sheet of paper to be outputted, and a controller adjusting a paper transport interval in accordance with the output process time determined by the output processing device. Upon canceling...

20060115291 - Electro-photographic image forming apparatus: An electro-photographic image forming apparatus includes a main body provided with a first unit to perform a predetermined operation, a built-in switching mode power supply (SMPS) to rectify an input alternating current (AC) to generate a direct current (DC) to be supplied to the first unit, and first and second...

20060115292 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge capable of performing stable charging operation: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging roller for charging the image carrying member, a charging roller cleaning roller, and first and second shaft bearings. The charging roller cleaning roller contacts and cleans a surface of the charging roller. The first shaft bearing rotatably holds a...

20060115293 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a module box moves between a first position and a second position. A locking/unlocking unit locks the module box into the first position, and a biasing unit biases the module box from the first position to the second position when the locking/unlocking unit is unlocked....

20060115294 - Image forming apparatus: Provided is an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a developer operating after being inserted in a body of the image forming apparatus and forming an image on a recording medium. A cover opens or closes the body such that the developer may be inserted in or removed...

20060115295 - Image forming unit and color image forming apparatus having the same: Provided are an image forming unit and a color image forming apparatus having the image forming unit. The image forming unit includes an intermediate transfer belt, a plurality of belt roller shafts formed at both ends of each of a plurality of belt rollers allowing the intermediate transfer belt to...

20060115296 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has a charge removing unit (31) between a transfer roller (11) for transferring a toner image from a surface of a photosensitive drum (4) to a transfer member and a charging unit (3) for electrostatically charging the surface of the photosensitive drum (4) approximately uniformly, with...

20060115297 - Imaging device and imaging method: An imaging device, comprising: an image pickup device which images a subject; and a motion estimating device which estimates a motion of the subject and a motion of the imaging device based on a dynamic image or a plurality of still images which are imaged to include the subject prior...

20060115298 - Image forming device, image forming method, and program: The present invention provides for an image forming device, an image forming method, and a program intended to print out multiple documents of different sizes collectively in one output sheet with a margin upon adjustment of the magnification of the documents to an appropriate size. The image forming device used...

20060115299 - Image forming apparatus and developing gap adjusting method in image forming apparatus: In the image forming apparatus of the present invention, a developing roller is press fit into the rotor at the edge of the rotary holder of the revolver type color developing device that is positioned against the photosensitive drum and a developing gap between the photosensitive drum and the developing...

20060115300 - Waste developer dealing device of image forming apparatus and dealing method: A waste developer dealing device and a method of dealing with the waste developer is provided. The waste developer dealing device includes a developing unit forming an image using a developer supplied, a withdrawing container arranged below the developing unit to store the waste developer removed from the developing unit,...

20060115301 - Carrier remover device, a wet-type image forming apparatus having the same, and a method for removing carrier in wet-type image forming apparatus: A carrier removing device of a wet-type image forming apparatus, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises an intermediate transfer medium and a vaporizing unit. The intermediate transfer medium receives images from an image carrying medium. The vaporizing unit evaporates, at a low temperature, a liquid carrier saturating...

20060115302 - Image forming apparatus capable of effectively developing images: An image forming apparatus, a process cartridge, and a developing unit includes a developer carrying member to carry developer, first and second rotary members arranged in parallel to each other and configured to rotate to agitate and convey the developer, and an enclosure having an inside space to contain the...

20060115303 - Color registration sensing device, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus with the same: Provided are a color registration sensing device to detect color registration of a color image to adjust color registration. An electrophotographic color image forming apparatus is also provided that includes a case with a door and the color registration sensing device is disposed on the case. The color registration sensing...

20060115304 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus has a development unit with a photoconductor. A transport belt conveys a printing medium onto which a toner image is transferred from the photoconductor. A separator is disposed inside the transport belt, and is capable of extending outwardly to push the printing medium to separate...

20060115305 - Improved xerography methods and systems: Methods and apparatus for performing addressable fusing and/or heating of a substrate undergoing xerographic processing are disclosed. The apparatus includes a fuser having an array of addressable heating elements in radiative communication with a substrate through a fuser roll or fuser belt. The array of addressable heating elements is operated...

20060115306 - Addressable fusing for an integrated printing system: A printing system (10) includes at least one marking device (22A, 22B, 22C, 22D). Each of the marking devices is configured for applying images to print media. A primary fusing device (24A, 24B, 24C, 24D) is associated with each of the marking devices for applying a primary fusing treatment to...

20060115307 - Method and apparatus for sheet handling in an imaging device: A method and apparatus for adjusting the print area by positioning a sheet in an imaging device utilizing length data from a prior sheet. A first sheet length is measured and thereafter utilized to determine the print zone for a subsequent sheet....

20060115308 - Sheet storage cassette and image forming apparatus: A sheet storage cassette includes: a case provided with a storage portion; a stacking plate on which a sheet is placed; and a lifting unit that lifts the stacking plate. The lifting unit has: a driving gear that communicates with an output gear of the device main body in a...