Xerox Corporation

Michael John Martin

Russell J Sokac

Gerald M Garavuso

Lloyd W Durfey

Steven Robert Moore

James J Spence

Robert Michael Lofthus

Robert P Siegel

Joseph M Wing

Robert P Loce

David Mark Kerxhalli

Brian Robert Conrow

Mark Andrew Omelchenko

Kathleen M Martin

Dragana Pavlovic

Kathleen M Laffey

Shane Michael Jewitt

R Victor Klassen

Eliud Robles Flores

Daniel W Costanza

Michael F Leo

Andrew T Martin

Stephen C Morgana

Michael Robert Furst

David M Parsons

David Clark Craig

Mark Steven Amico

Ken Hayward

James Patrick Calamita

Michael Branciforte

James M Casella

Mark A Adiletta

Christopher Auguste Dirubio

Thomas C Hollar

Shawn Patrick Updegraff

Jacob N Kluger

Robert Edward Hildebrand

Jack K Fullerton

Orlando J Lacayo

Richard A Beck

James O Mitchel

Michele D Taber

Charles F Prevost

Daniel R Maurer

Anne Fitzpatrick

David C Swift

Russel J Sokac

Karen Ann Moffat

Edul N Dalal

Dale Robert Mashtare

Gerald A Domoto

John F Knapp

William J Nowak

Martin Edward Banton

Patricia Joanne Donaldson

John Stephen Facci

Elias Panides

Ron Edward Dufort

George J Roller

Paul S Bonino

Ralph A Shoemaker

John A Durbin

Roberto A Irizarry

David Keneth Ahl

Jonathan Byron Hunter

Michael B Monahan

Richard Philip Nelson Veregin

William G Osbourne

Wayne D Drinkwater

Song-Feng Mo

Richard A Van Dongen

Todd Kenneth Preston

Douglas Raymond Taylor

Richard L Forbes, Ii

Andrew James Bonacci

Richard A Kalb

Joseph A Mastrandrea

Robert M Mara

Ssujan Hou

James W Stevens

Karl B Ayash

Keith A May

Vinod K Agarwal

Richard A Lux

Robert A Pictor

Rosario A Bracco

Charles A Barbe

Debbie S Wickham

Michael J Thomas

Carlos O Alva

Steve P Hoover

Paul W Morehouse

Barbara J Schaeffer

Tom Baretsky

James A Spence

Steven R, Moore

Steve R Moore

Scott Douglas Berner, Legal Representative

Ssujan (James) Hou

Lou Bressler

Systems and methods are provided for using augmented reality to create a printing template. The method includes capturing, using a camera of a mobile electronic device, a real world image of a surface. The method further includes, by a processor, receiving the real world image, processing the real world image to isolate and measure a portion of the surface on which print job content is to be applied, creating a printing template conforming to a shape and area of the isolated and measured portion of the surface, causing the real world image to be output on a display, and causing the display to output the printing template over the real world image, overlaid over the isolated and measured portion of the surface.

Using augmented reality to perform complex print jobs

A printer for producing a print media moving in a process direction including a print engine, a fuser, a full width array and a duplexing path. The print engine is operatively arranged to receive the print media and to apply a first dry marking material to a first surface of the print media. The fuser is arranged subsequently to the print engine in the process direction and is operatively arranged to receive the print media with the first dry marking material applied to the first surface of the print media and to fix the first dry marking material on the first surface using at least one of heat and pressure. The full width array is arranged subsequently to the fuser and is operatively arranged to obtain a first image of the first surface of the print media, the first image being used to quantify a flatness of the print media and/or image quality of the first image. The duplexing path is arranged subsequently to the full width array.

System, apparatus, and method for printing large format media and targeted decurling of various printing processes

A printing system receives a print request containing patterns of marks to be printed on print media to produce printed output. A processor evaluates the print request to identify different printing densities of the patterns of marks. The processor alters the patterns of marks to create hidden features on the printed output by adding different printing densities of fluorescent spots to different areas of the patterns of marks. The different printing densities of the fluorescent spots are based on the different printing densities of the patterns of marks and on the size of the hidden features. A printing device prints the print request on the print media to produce the printed output.

Security marks based on print job image

A method of calibrating a printing system for positioning at least one printed image, the printing system includes a first image bearing surface, the method includes: a) forming a background pattern and at least three fiducials on the first image bearing surface, wherein the background pattern is larger than a first printed image and the at least three fiducials are within an area formed by the first printed image; b) transferring a portion of the first printed image to a second image bearing surface; c) measuring a first residual image on the first image bearing surface, wherein the first residual image is a portion of the background pattern and the at least three fiducials remaining on the first image bearing surface after the step of transferring; and, d) calculating at least one calibration parameter for the printing system based on the measuring of the first residual image.

Automated positioning of printed images

Systems and methods for dynamically updating service ranks for a plurality of service actions for an electronic system are disclosed. A central computing system may receive a plurality of service actions prioritized in an order based on a service rank associated with each service action. Each service action may correspond to one or more operations performed to attempt to repair an electronic system. The central computing system may receive feedback information for one or more service actions from a first user pertaining at least to whether each service action successfully repaired a fault for the electronic system. The service rank for each service action may be updated based on at least the feedback information, and the order for the service actions may be modified based on the updated service ranks. The central computing system may provide one or more service actions to a second user based on the modified order.

Dynamic ranking of service actions

A method for detecting, in-situ, a cross-process linearity error in an image printing system that prints on an image bearing surface movable in the process direction is provided. The method includes placing marking material to form of a row of registration marks on the image bearing surface, detecting a position in a cross-process direction of each registration mark in the row using a linear array sensor that extends in the cross-process direction, and determining a correction function with a processor using the positions of the registration marks as detected by the linear array sensor to compensate for an error in the positions in the cross-process direction of the registration marks. The row of registration marks extends in a cross-process direction transverse to the process direction.

Use of registration marks and a linear array sensor for in-situ raster output scanner scan line nonlinearity detection

A system and method control a consistent color quality of overlay colors and single separations of color. The method determines a first error for a first separation of a first color, wherein the first error has a first sign. The method identifies a second error for a second separation of a second color, wherein the second color is a different color than the first color, wherein the second error is based on an actual density value for toner particles printed transferred from the second separation, wherein the second error has a second sign. The method compares the first sign of the first error and the second sign of the second error. The method converges the actual density value of the second separation to a target position when the first sign is a different sign than the second sign.

System and method for controlling consistent color quality

A method for monitoring an image printing system that prints color images on an image bearing surface movable in a process direction is provided. The method includes placing marking material to form a row comprising a plurality of registration marks on the image bearing surface, wherein each row of registration marks extends along a cross-process direction transverse to the process direction; detecting a position of each registration mark using a linear array sensor extending in the cross-process direction, wherein the position of each registration mark is detected in both the process and cross-process direction; determining a process direction misregistration between the registration marks of each row in the process direction and cross-process direction misregistration between registration marks from each of the rows.

Use of xerographic images and a full-width array sensor for multiple control system sensing

What is disclosed is a novel system and method for automatically retrieving and configuring the print device to a set of device specific system settings tailored for user selected media attributes. In one embodiment, an operator selects media attributes desired for a particular print job on a print device which then automatically queries a database over a network for a set of device specific system settings tailored to the selected media attributes. The database system determines the existence of at least one record stored in the database and provides that matching record data back to the print device. The matching record data is received and displayed on a user interface for review by an operator. The operator accepts/modifies the displayed system settings. The print device then automatically configures the device to the accepted device specific system settings.

Obtaining print system settings for selected print media attributes in a networked print job environment

A xerographic marking device includes an intermediate transfer unit, a media transport path and at least one two-color image-on-image (IOI) drum module. Each two-color IOI drum module includes in a process order around a photoreceptor: a) a first charging unit; b) a first exposure unit; c) a first development unit; d) a second charging unit; e) a second exposure unit; and f) a second development unit, wherein the intermediate transfer unit receives a first toned image and a second toned image from the photoreceptor in a single transfer and transfers those toner images to print media to produce a toned image on print media. In various embodiments, specific color pairings are provided.

Two-color IOI drum module enabling N-color monochrome, highlight, full color, phototone color and extended color architectures

Methods are presented in which one or more pages of a print job are segmented into two or more parts, with the first part being transferred and affixed to the printed medium prior to transferring and affixing the second part, in order to facilitate high TMA (pile height) printing while mitigating adverse retransfer, blur, fusing, and hollow character effects.

Multi-color printing system and method for high toner pile height printing

Document processing systems and methods are presented in which one or more pages of a print job are segmented into two or more parts, with the first part being transferred and affixed to the printed medium prior to transferring and affixing the second part, in order to facilitate high TMA (pile height) printing while mitigating adverse retransfer, blur, fusing, and hollow character effects.

A method and system for providing dynamic sensor positioning in a color image forming device. Movably mounted sensors are provided in color printers and color reproduction devices allowing for a single sensor to be utilized in a plurality of positions corresponding to a plurality of color control patches, resulting in reduced production and operating costs. In particular, a color xerographic device is provided with a movably mounted ESV that can be positioned substantially adjacent to a plurality of color control patches, thereby, allowing for a single ESV in a multi-color image forming device.

Dynamic ESV (sensor) positioner for multi-color configuration

A hybrid printing system including (a) a machine frame; (b) a multi-color image producing module mounted within the machine frame and including color image output terminals and an endless intermediate transfer member for receiving color images from the color image output terminals to form a multi-color image; (c) a separate black image producing module mounted within the machine frame spaced from the multi-color image producing module and including a black image output terminal; and (d) a print media transport/transfer module mounted within the machine frame for receiving and moving image receiving print media through the machine frame, the print media transport/transfer module including a repositionable electrostatic transport/transfer member having multi-positions including (i) a first position forming a first image transfer nip with the endless intermediate transfer member, and (ii) a second position forming a second image transfer nip with the black image output terminal.

Hybrid printing system

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Hamlin, NY, United States of America

Michael John Martin