Xerox Corporation

Eugene L Smith

Joseph L Filion

Dale T Platteter

James B Williams

Robert S Westfall

Thomas J Herceg

William M OuYang

Donald L Miller

John R Hill, Jr

Julie A Lapp

Stephanie P Burton

David P Cropek

Richard K Patterson

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An apparatus for mechanically assisting the transfer of an image from an image bearing member onto a substrate. The apparatus includes a transfer assist blade that forces a substrate toward an image bearing member, a motor, a mechanical assembly for coupling the motor to the transfer assist blade such that motor operation changes the transfer assist blade force, and a controller that controls the motor operation. The controller might receive inputs from a substrate sensor, an operator control panel, and/or a service adjustment. The controller might use those inputs to control the motor operation, and thus the transfer force. Alternatively, the controller might control the transfer force as a result of the operation of the overall machine, such as by changing the transfer force during duplex printing or during the transfer of various color images.

Variable transfer assist blade force

The method of changing system files to be able to change either the primary or secondary language or both on a rigid disk to another language, and to provide the operator with the option of selecting either the primary or secondary language as the medium for the display messages and prompts by providing the language requirements on a floppy disk, identifying the specific files of the control to be altered to produce the language requirements, loading the floppy disk into a floppy disk drive, and transferring the language requirements to the rigid disk.

Multilingual operator prompting system which compares language control

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Eugene L Smith