Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Robin Walton

Orhan E Beckman

Jennifer Farrell

Sean Anderson

Various embodiments of an image forming device, programs and methods are provided. In one representative embodiment an image forming device receives a document for printing and prints at least a portion of the document monochromatically or in color. Whether the portion of the document is printed monochromatically or in color is based upon the print mode setting associated with the document and the state of the print mode actuator of the image forming device.

Image forming device with print mode actuator and method

An ink builder to build an ink for a hard copy device. The ink has at least one property that deteriorates in storage. The ink builder comprises an ink tank and apparatus for building ink in the ink tank from a plurality of components and/or an ink maintaining apparatus arranged to inhibit deterioration of the at least one property of the ink in the ink tank. The ink builder may be used in cooperation with a separate hard copy device to which the ink tank can be transferred. Methods of producing hard copies using such a hard copy device are also disclosed.

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Culver City, CA, United States of America

Robin Walton