Hitachi, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Other

Sony Corporation

Renesas Technology Corp.

Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Oki Data Corporation

Pentax Corporation

Oji Paper Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.

Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Asao Nishimura

Kunihiko Nishi

Kunihiro Tsubosaki

Takashi Yokoyama

Gen Murakami

Makoto Kitano

Akio Hasebe

Akihiro Yaguchi

Hiroshi Hozoji

Takashi Yamazaki

Kazuyoshi Oshima

Masahiro Ichitani

Aizo Kaneda

Junichi Saeki

Shozo Nakamura

Isamu Yoshida

Sueo Kawai

Hiroyoshi Kokaku

Noriyuki Kinjo

Masatsugu Ogata

Masanori Segawa

Syuuji Eguchi

Ichiro Anjo

Tetsuro Matsumoto

Takashi Hasegawa

Hideki Kimura

Tatsuyuki Tokunaga

Tetsuya Nishio

Yoshihiko Konno

Azusa Sugawara

Ichiro Anjoh

Tetsurou Matsumoto

Hitoshi Oka

Junichi Matsumoto

Tomoya Ohmura

Yasuo Takuma

Tadashi Ogawa

Hiroyuki Mabuchi

Yukio Otome

Junichi Terai

Hiroaki Okamoto

Yusuke Ishizuka

Yutaka Takahashi

Norio Nakazato

Ikuo Yoshida

Natsumi Matsue

Akira Fujimori

Yoshiyuki Kado

Seiichi Kogure

Takayuki Tsuboi

Tetsuya Hayashida

Toshihiko Sato

Masahiro Watanabe

Mutsuko Hatano

Tsutomu Takahashi

Minoru Ikeda

Yoshitaka Tadaki

Naotaka Tanaka

Takashi Suga

Makoto Ohkura

Mikio Hongo

Mitsuo Nakatani

Yuichi Gomi

Nobuyuki Ushifusa

Hiroyuki Uenishi

Satoru Isomura

Masanari Toda

Masanobu Hida

Tsukasa Onose

Akihiro Namai

Haruhisa Saito

Go Tokura

Kazuhiro Shimada

Hiroyasu Sasaki

Norio Suzuki

Akira Arimoto

Tsutomu Nakamura

Takeo Yamada

Akihiko Nagano

Hitoshi Yokono

Masakazu Sagawa

Akihiro Horii

Masaru Eguchi

Yoshimasa Tanaka

Yoichi Tamaki

Shinichi Arai

Takashi Mori

Yoichiro Kobayashi

Tomohisa Suzuki

Kazunori Suzuki

Koichi Sugimoto

Tokio Isogai

Toshifumi Urakami

Takao Mizutani

Noriyuki Oroku

Natsumi Katoh

Isao Takahashi

Mineto Yagyu

Hirokazu Ando

An image forming apparatus includes a toner image bearer, a transfer device, a cleaner, a bias power source, and circuitry. The toner image bearer bears a toner image. The transfer device performs a transfer process. The cleaner contacts the toner image bearer to remove transfer residual toner that is subject to the transfer process and remove untransferred toner that is not subject to the transfer process. The bias power source applies one of a first bias and a second bias different from the first bias to the cleaner. The circuitry controls the bias power source to output the first bias to the cleaner in response to a start of an image forming operation to remove the untransferred toner from the toner image bearer and control the bias power source to switch an output from the first bias to the second bias.

Image forming apparatus

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method for an information processing apparatus that transmits a print job, which causes to execute a print processing according to an instruction, to an image forming apparatus, the control method including a step of obtaining a total number of already-printed pages including the number of pages already printed to date, and a step of, in a case that a sum of the total number of already-printed pages and the number of pages included in the instruction exceeds a threshold value corresponding to a contracted plan, causing a display unit of the information processing apparatus to display a user interface including a first object for instructing to transmit a print job that causes to execute a print processing exceeding the threshold value, and a second object for instructing to cancel transmitting the print job.

Storage medium, information processing apparatus, and control method for information processing apparatus

A powder conveying device includes a drop conveyance passage, an intersecting conveyance passage, a conveying screw, and a floating member. Powder entering from an inflow port drops in the drop conveyance passage. The intersecting conveyance passage communicates with a lower end of the drop conveyance passage and extends in an intersecting direction that intersects the drop conveyance passage. The conveying screw is disposed in the intersecting conveyance passage and rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder in the intersecting direction. The floating member is movably installed in the drop conveyance passage and floats in the drop conveyance passage to move by contact with the conveying screw. The inflow port and the floating member interfere with each other to prevent the floating member from coming out of the inflow port of the drop conveyance passage.

Powder conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus comprises: a storage device configured to store a first network address used when connected to a first printer and a second network address used when connected to a second printer; one or more memories; and one or more processors that are configured to cooperate with the one or more memories to control the information processing apparatus to control, when communicable with the first and second printers: displaying the first printer as a candidate of destination of print data, the first printer being accessible using the first network address; and not displaying the second printer as a candidate of destination of the print data, the second printer being inaccessible using the first network address.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A print setting extension application is provided to a client terminal as an application used for extending a function of a printer driver that issues a print job used for performing printing at a printer registered in a cloud print server via the cloud print server that registers a printer in accordance with an instruction transmitted when a user performs an operation on the printer side. The print setting extension application issues, as a print job for a cloud print, a print job that requires entry of a password on the printer side when printing is performed.

Application, printer driver, and information processing apparatus including a hash algorithm

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer; a nip forming member configured to form a transfer nip between the image bearer and the nip forming member; a nip pressure changer configured to change a nip pressure of the transfer nip; a transfer bias applier configured to apply, to the transfer nip, a transfer bias in which an AC component is superimposed on a DC component; and a DC component adjuster configured to adjust the DC component in the transfer bias, according to the nip pressure that is changed by the nip pressure changer.

Transfer bias and pressure in an image forming apparatus

An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a user print setting for a user, a change unit that changes the user print setting based on per-user print restriction information, and an edition unit that edits print data based on the changed user print setting.

Information processing apparatus, processing method of information processing apparatus, and storage medium

Embodiments of the present disclosure are configured to allow a general user to select a preset setting as much as possible even when some of print setting items are lock-set by an administrator user. Accordingly, even when the print setting item is lock-set, the general user may select a preset setting as long as there is no conflict.

Printing system, printing method, and program

A print expansion application is downloaded by using, as a key, a printer Hardware Identifier (HWID) acquired when a printer driver to be commonly used in an operating system (OS) is installed, and the print expansion application is associated with the printer driver.

Information processing apparatus, server apparatus, control method, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions. Executing the instructions by the processor causes the processor to perform operations. A virtual device on the information processing apparatus to transmit a print job to an image forming apparatus is selected. A user interface is displayed that is for activating, in accordance with the selected virtual device and among one or more applications to provide an additional function to the image forming apparatus, an application that corresponds to a model of the image forming apparatus to which the selected virtual device transmits the print job.

Information processing apparatus creates virtual printer to transmit print job to associated image forming apparatus which supports predetermined print format

A cleaning device cleans a discharge wire that discharges electric charge onto a discharge target. The cleaning device moves in a longitudinal direction oldie discharge wire. The cleaning device includes a first contact portion that contacts and cleans the discharge wire and a second contact portion that contacts and cleans the discharge wire. When the first contact portion and the second contact portion clean the discharge wire, the first contact portion and the second contact portion sandwich the discharge wire in a discharge direction in which the discharge wire discharges the electric charge onto the discharge target. The discharge direction is parallel to a radial direction of the discharge wire.

Cleaning device for cleaning a discharge wire, charger, and image forming apparatus

A developing device includes a developer bearer, a developer regulator, a developer supply passage, and a stopper. The developer bearer includes a magnetic field generator and is configured to bear a developer containing toner and magnetic carriers and conveys the developer to a developing area by rotation. A stopper prevents the developer blocked by the developer regulator from moving to a surface of the developer bearer, while securing a supply path for passing the developer in the developer supply passage to the developer bearer between the stopper and an upper end of a side wall of the developer supply passage that is opposite to the developing bearer. A width of the supply path in a direction perpendicular to a direction of a rotation axis of the developer bearer is in a range of 7%-10% of a circumference of an outer diameter of the developing bearer.

Developing device with a developer regulator and a stopper

A bot service in cooperation with a messaging service generates, in response to upload of a messaging service file from a messaging application, a message including a control used for specifying a print setting of the file and a preview image corresponding to a print setting specified by the control and submits the message to the messaging service. Further, in response to a print instruction for the file received from a messaging service, the bot service instructs a print service to print the file using a print setting specified by the control.

Information processing apparatus that generates a message, printing system, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium

The camera side mount is brought, by relative rotation with the accessory side mount, from a first state where each accessory side bayonet claw is inserted between the camera side bayonet claws into a second state where the camera side and accessory side bayonet claws engage with each other. The leaf spring biasing the camera side contact pins in the protruding direction is disposed between the camera side mount and the camera body. When the camera being in the normal position is viewed from the direction facing the camera side mount, the leaf spring extends from both sides of the mount center line, which extends from the center of the camera side mount in the direction of gravity, toward the camera side contact pins. The camera side contact pins are arranged at positions other than a position on the mount center line.

Camera and camera accessory

A developer conveyance device includes a downward conveyance path in which a developer falls under gravity, a transverse conveyance path communicating with a lower end of the downward conveyance path and extending in a transverse direction intersecting with the downward conveyance path, a transport screw disposed in the transverse conveyance path, and a floating member. The transport screw is configured to rotate in a predetermined direction to transport the developer in the transverse direction. The floating member is configured to contact the transport screw rotating in the predetermined direction to float in the downward conveyance path.

Developer conveyance device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

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Hiroshi Kikuchi