Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Fujitsu Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Tec

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Tadao Kamano

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Shinichiro Fujii

Hitoshi Ushiogi

Juntaro Oku

Hidenobu Suzuki

Masaaki Oyaide

Takashi Kashiwagi

Sakae Shiida

Akira Sato

Hiroaki Watanabe

Hirofumi Harada

Kyouichi Shibata

Kazuhiro Ogura

Mitsuya Sato

Toshiyuki Sato

Akira Nuita

Akinori Iwase

Koichi Yoshimura

Tsunehiro Motegi

Shigeru Morino

Kei Hara

Tsugio Narushima

Hiroshi Shintani

Shunji Kawano

Keishi Higashi

Hiroyuki Takada

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Izumi Araki

Akira Satou

Katsuo Shioiri

Toshiki Yamauchi

Aya Inokuchi

Miho Inahara

Takafumi Kamada

Tatsuya Okihara

An image forming system according to an embodiment includes: a first image forming apparatus that forms an image using a decolorable color material, a second image forming apparatus that forms an image using a non-decolorable color material, an information terminal that communicates over a network with the first and second image forming apparatuses. When a trial printing operation is initiated from the information terminal, the information terminal prompts a user for an input selecting the first image forming apparatus to perform the trial printing operation using the decolorable color material.

Image forming system and image forming method for selecting between two separate image forming apparatuses

In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section configured to form an image on the surface of a medium with a recording material the color of which cannot be erased by heating; a heating section configured to heat the medium to fix the image; and a control section configured to determine whether or not an executed job is a quota subtraction target job or a quota addition target job, calculate a corresponding subtraction quota when the job is a quota subtraction target job or a corresponding addition quota when the job is a quota addition target job, and update the current quota based on the subtraction quota and the addition quota.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system with a quota management function

A hygroscopic moisture separating and heating apparatus () comprises a main body container () having a cylindrical shape, a partition plate () provided to define a space together with an inner circumferential face of the main body container () and configured to divide the internal space of the main body container () into a lower temperature area () and a higher temperature area (), a steam inlet () provided to the lower temperature area () of the main body container (), a steam outlet () provided to the higher temperature area () of the main body container (), a hygroscopic moisture separator () located in the lower temperature area () of the main body container (), and a U-shaped pipe () through which heated steam for heating the steam to be heated is fed. The U-shaped pipe includes an advancing part (), a retracting part (), and a U-shaped part () connecting the advancing part () with the retracting part (). Either of the advancing part () and the retracting part () of the U-shaped pipe () extends through the partition plate across the lower temperature area () and the higher temperature area ().

Moisture separation heater

There is provided an information storage output system enhanced in mobility and improved in convenience to use. In the information storage output system for storing predetermined storage data in a storage server on a network, the storage server can be accessed from many and unspecified communication devices. The information storage output system includes a plurality of remote output terminals for outputting supply data supplied via a network in a predetermined output form, a remote output server having a function of supplying at least the supply data to one of the remote output terminals, and an output request communication terminal for transmitting a primary output request of the storage data to the storage server or the remote output server via a network. The storage data is output from the remote output terminal in response to the primary output request transmitted from the output request communication terminal.

Information storage output system and information storage output service

A method and system for searching a first content group stored in a user terminal using given keywords, displaying a search result in a list using a web browser, and storing IDs corresponding to content referred to by the user in a reference history storage unit. After this, when the user searches a second content group stored in the support server, the server receives keywords and reference history from the user terminal and searches the second content group using the keywords. The server then determines whether or not the ID of retrieved content exists in the reference history, and displays contents with IDs in the reference history and content with IDs not existing in the reference history in such a manner that the contents are distinguishable from each other with the Web browser of the user terminal.

Program, method and system for searching content, and operator questioning processing system

An electronic catalog system sends catalog address information to a mobile phone through a wireless communication, sends catalog data adaptable to address information selected by the mobile phone to a storage server, and prints and outputs catalog data stored in the storage server.

Electronic catalog system, catalog data printing method, server, and computer readable recording media recording program used in server

An ink-jet printer includes a rotary drum , having a dielectric peripheral surface , for rotating at a constant speed, a sheet loader for loading a sheet to the rotary drum , a sheet holding system for causing the sheet to be held on the peripheral surface of the rotary drum , and a print head section for printing an image on the sheet held on the peripheral surface of the rotary drum by jetting ink to the sheet while the rotary drum makes a predetermined number of rotations. Particularly, the sheet holding system includes a charging section and a supplementary charger section . The charging section is charges the peripheral surface of the rotary drum on an upstream side of the loading point where the leading end of the sheet loaded by the sheet loader contacts the peripheral surface of the rotary drum . The supplementary charger section charges the sheet to supplement the electrostatic attraction force attenuated during the rotation of the rotary drum

Ink-jet printer

An ink-jet printer includes a print head for printing a plurality of dots as an image by ejecting ink onto a paper sheet while the paper sheet is moving in a predetermined direction, and a print control section which stores a plurality of dot data assigned to the plurality of dots to designate tones thereof and which drives the print head according to the plurality of dot data. The print control section includes a correction section for correcting a tone of a target dot on the basis of a tone designated by dot data assigned to a dot adjacent to the target dot in the predetermined direction, in a manner so as to compensate for an ink flow due to inertia of semi-dried ink against movement of the paper sheet.

An ink-jet printer includes a sheet feed-in mechanism,for feeding a paper sheet, a rotary drum,having a peripheral surface,of a size larger than the paper sheet to be fed by the sheet feed-in mechanism,, for rotating at a constant speed, a sheet holding system,for holding the paper sheet on the peripheral surface of the rotary drum, a print head,for printing an image by repeatedly ejecting ink onto the paper sheet held on the peripheral surface of the rotary drum,while the rotary drum,performs a predetermined number of rotations, a sheet separator,for separating the paper sheet from the peripheral surface,of the rotary drum, a sheet feed-out mechanism,for feeding out the paper sheet separated by the sheet separator,, a control unit,for controlling the sheet feed-in mechanism,, the rotary drum,, the sheet holding system,, the print head,, the sheet separator,and the sheet feed-out mechanism,. In particular, the control unit,is constructed such that the sheet holding system,, the print head,and the sheet separator,are sequentially driven on the basis of the number of rotations of the rotary drum

An ink-jet printer includes a rotary drum,, having a dielectric peripheral surface,for rotating at a constant speed, a sheet loader,for loading a sheet to the rotary drum,, a sheet holding system for causing the sheet to be held on the peripheral surface,of the rotary drum,, and a print head section,for printing an image on the sheet held on the peripheral surface,of the rotary drum,by jetting ink to the sheet while the rotary drum,makes a predetermined number of rotations. Particularly, the sheet holding system includes a charging section,and a supplementary charger section,. The charging section,charges the peripheral surface,of the rotary drum,on an upstream side of the loading point where the leading end of the sheet loaded by the sheet loader,contacts the peripheral surface,of the rotary drum,. The supplementary charger section,charges the sheet to supplement the electrostatic attraction force attenuated during the rotation of the rotary drum

Suction ports (14) are provided in one end (15R) of a drum (10), connecting the interior (16) and exterior of the drum (10). Corresponding suction ports (34) are provided at a stationary side (5R), opposing the suction ports (14), respectively. A suction fan (32) is provided, which draws air from the interior (16) of the rotating drum (10) through the corresponding suction ports (34) and the suction ports (14). A printing medium M can be attracted and held onto the outer circumferential surface (11) of the drum (10) by virtue of negative pressure, by utilizing the negative pressure generated in the interior (16) of the drum (10) as the suction fan (32) rotates and a plurality of suction holes (12) extending in a radial direction and connecting the interior and exterior of the drum (10). A damper (38) is provided at the air outlet port of the suction fan (32), for opening and closing the outlet port of the fan (32).

Printing medium holding apparatus for a printer using air suction force

A printing medium discharge apparatus used for discharging a printing medium from a rotary drum in an ink jet printer for printing a desired image onto the printing medium by an ink jet while holding the printing medium on the rotary drum, includes a printing medium carry and discharge device and a printing medium press device. The printing medium carry and discharge device carries thereon the printing medium from the rotary drum, on the printing medium an image having been printed, to make a non-image formation surface of the printing medium including no image formation region contact the printing medium carry and discharge device, and discharges the printing medium carried thereon to be moved apart from the rotary drum. The printing medium press device presses an image formation surface including an image formation region of the printing medium carried on the printing medium carry and discharge device, against the printing medium carry and discharge device, thereby to prevent the printing medium from floating up from the printing medium carry and discharge device while the printing medium is discharged by the printing medium carry and discharge device.

Printing medium discharge apparatus used in an ink jet printer

A system for automatic transfer of electronic mail which can set and modify the automatic mail transfer operation without requiring users to learn the operating method or requiring the system manager to set up the transfer. The mail handler retrieves the user address books of the intended receivers of a mail message using an automatic transfer destination name as a keyword and transfers the message to the user corresponding to the automatic transfer destination name when the keyword exists in the user's address book.

Automatic transfer for electronic mail using an automatic transfer name

A color printer includes an electrophotographic process unit for selectively exposing the photosensitive image carriers to form identical latent images thereon, developing the latent images as toner images by supplying toners of different colors, and transferring the toner images onto paper, and a control circuit for controlling amounts of exposure of the latent images to be formed by the electrophotographic process unit. Particularly, the control circuit includes a toner-save key for selecting a toner-save mode, and processing circuit for lowering the exposure amounts of the latent images in the toner-save mode, while changing a rate of the exposure amounts to compensate for a difference between development properties of the toners.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Hiroshi Yamaguchi