Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Gabriel Scott McDaniel

Jeffrey H Luke

Justin Pettingill

Sean Daniel Fitzgerald

Paul L Jeran

Scott K Hymas

Jeff Luke

Dennis A Abramsohn

Mark Q Shaw

Juan Guzman

David B Novak

Steven T Castle

Laurent Pizot

Brian Christopher Mayer

George Henry Kerby

Honee L Mesa

Kyle Mannari

Elijah Houle

Katelyn Christene Morse

Teresa Marie O'Keeffe

Kyle Michel

Mike Allyn

Christopher P Murschel

Benjamin D Nielsen

Ella Grace Brucker Suznevich

Jeffrey Michael Frechette

Lee Jackson

Teresa M O'keeffe

An apparatus includes a developer and an actuator moveable in response to an input stimulus during an image forming operation of an image forming device. The apparatus includes a clutch that is actuatable, during the image forming operation, by the actuator between an engaged position in which the clutch is engaged with a photoreceptor and a disengaged position in which the clutch is disengaged from the photoreceptor. The clutch when in the engaged position transfers a force of a photoreceptor drive assembly to the photoreceptor for moving the photoreceptor, and the clutch when in the disengaged position isolates the photoreceptor drive assembly from the photoreceptor.

Clutch actuation between positions

Reprocessing of a replaceable supply component may include receiving from an encoding device and using an interface communicatively coupled to the encoding device, a request blob to reprocess a replaceable supply component. The method may include in response to cryptographically verifying the request blob, extracting from the request blob, a supply identifier and raw supply data. The method further includes using the supply identifier and raw supply data, generating a reprocess structure to append or amend original manufacturing data for the replaceable supply component, and providing a response blob to the encoding device, to designate the replaceable supply component as a reprocessed supply component.

Reprocessing of a replaceable supply component

An apparatus includes a developer and a photoreceptor, where the developer is to transfer a toner to the photoreceptor. The apparatus includes a housing that is moveable in an image forming device, and an actuator assembly engaged with the housing. The actuator assembly is actuatable between different states in response to control by the image forming device during an image forming operation of the image forming device, where a first state of the different states corresponds to the housing being at a first position that disrupts a transfer of the toner to a transfer member of the image forming device during the image forming operation, and a second state of the different states corresponds to the housing being at a second position that allows the transfer of the toner to the transfer member.

Cartridge with selectively disruptable toner transfer for image forming device

An apparatus includes a developer to receive a toner, and an actuator moveable between different positions. An electrical switch is responsive to an input stimulus from the actuator to control a voltage that enables or disrupts a transfer of the toner from the developer to a photoreceptor, where the electrical switch when in a first state sets the voltage at a first level to enable the transfer of the toner from the developer to the photoreceptor, and the electrical switch when in a second state sets the voltage at a second level to disrupt the transfer of the toner from the developer to the photoreceptor.

Disruptions of toner transfers from developers to photoreceptors

An apparatus includes a developer and a moveable support that is moveable in response to actuation by an image forming device. The apparatus further includes a toner transfer modulator on the moveable support, the toner transfer modulator moveable with the moveable support between different positions to differently affect transfer of a toner to a photoreceptor or a transfer member, where the moveable support is to move the toner transfer modulator to a first position to disrupt the transfer of the toner to the photoreceptor or the transfer member during an image forming operation of the image forming device.

Toner transfer modulators

A printing device determines that a consumable item newly installed within a printing device has previously been used, based on a remaining life of the consumable item. In response to determining that the consumable item has previously been used, the printing device resets the remaining life of the consumable item.

Resetting printing device consumable item remaining life

That content on a last page of a print job having multiple pages satisfies a residue threshold is detected. In response to detecting that the content on the last page satisfies the residue threshold, the print job is modified to have one fewer page. A printing device is caused to print the modified print job.

Modifying print job to have one fewer page when content on last page satisfies residue threshold

A print material refill container includes a housing and a chamber, within the housing, to contain a print material. The print material refill container includes a physical indicator subject to modification based on an engagement of the physical indicator with an engagement member of a printing device when the print material refill container engages the printing device to deliver the print material to a reservoir of the printing device. The physical indicator indicates an unused condition of the print material refill container when the physical indicator has a first state prior to the modification, and the physical indicator indicates a used condition of the print material refill container when the physical indicator has a second state subsequent to the modification.

Physical indicators of print material refill containers

Upon fulfillment of a replacement cartridge of print material, whether projected usage of a printing device will likely deplete a current cartridge of print material prior to anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge is determined. Responsive to determination that the projected usage will likely deplete the current cartridge prior to the anticipated arrival of the replacement cartridge, the printing device is to enter a reduced print material usage mode during subsequent actual usage of the printing device.

Printing device entry into reduced print material usage mode

An example of a container is disclosed. The example disclosed herein comprises an impermeable container wall, a container releasing valve, and a gas vessel. The impermeable container wall defines the boundaries of an inner volume of the container. The container releasing valve is installed in the container wall to release gas from the inner volume of the container to the outside of the container. The gas vessel is installed in the inner volume of the container. The gas vessel comprises a gas vessel wall, a pressurized vessel gas, and a gas vessel releasing system. The gas vessel wall defines the boundaries of an inner volume of the gas vessel, wherein the gas vessel wall is impermeable and allows for a pressure difference between the inner volume of the gas vessel and an outer volume of the gas vessel. A pressurized vessel gas is enclosed within the inner volume of the gas vessel. And a gas releasing system is to release a certain quantity of the vessel gas to the inner volume of the gas container.

Containers with gas vessel

In some examples, a computing device can include a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions to cause the processing resource to determine, via an input, whether to sustainably process a print component associated with a printing device, determine, in response to a determination to sustainably process the print component a processing mechanism for the print component and a shipping location to ship the print component, and generate a shipping label for the print component associated with the shipping location.

Shipping print components

An example method comprises identifying a plurality of supply levels corresponding to a set of print supplies of a print device. The example method further comprises coordinating depletion of the set of print supplies by selecting between black print and process black print for a print job of the print device based on the plurality of supply levels.

Selecting between black print and process black print

An example apparatus includes a packaging container, and any of a label and an electronic tag detachably connected to the packaging container and including an electrical code set for electrical authentication upon removal of any of the label and the electronic tag from the packaging container and being affixed to a device associated with the packaging container, wherein the electrical authentication is to validate the packaging container and the device as original equipment manufacturer components. Any of the label and the packaging container is altered upon removal of the label from the packaging container.

Authentication of devices by indicators on device packaging

Parameters particular to the consumable item and that affect calculation of an estimated remaining life of the consumable item when used in the printing device for printing are received. A payload is constructed based on the parameters. The printing device is to use the parameters when calculating the estimated remaining life of the consumable item during usage of the consumable item for printing.

Parameters particular to consumable item and affecting estimated remaining life of consumable item

A device is to supply printing material to a printing material container in a printing apparatus. The device includes a first container to contain printing material, a first piston movable in the first container to exert first pressure to discharge the printing material contained in the first container from the first container, a second container having an opening to the first container, and a second piston movable in the second container to exert second pressure higher than the first pressure to form a pressure gradient based on the first pressure and the second pressure through the opening. The pressure gradient is to disperse the printing material in the first container.

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Boise, ID, United States of America

Gabriel Scott McDaniel