Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shinji Nousyo

Toshiyuki Kabata

Akihiro Sugino

Hideo Nakamori

Michio Kimura

Tatsuya Niimi

Naohiro Toda

Takashi Rokutanzono

A server computer searches for at least one printing-service providing store based on printing-condition information sent form an information terminal, and sends information representing the searched printing-service providing store to the information terminal. After a user selects one printer device based on the information representing the at least one printing-service providing store, the information terminal sends document data to be printed to the server computer. The server computer sends printing data to be printed to the user-selected printer device.

Server computer, information terminal, printing system, remote printing method, recording medium, and computer data signal embeded in a carrier wave

An endless belt including an endless body having opposite side edges and an interior surface, and a pair of spaced apart parallel guides bonded to the interior surface of the endless body at positions adjacent to the side edges thereof and extending longitudinally along the side edges, wherein each of the guides is made of an elastic material and has inside and/or outside surfaces having specific roughness.

Apparatus having endless belt with roughened guide

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Numazu, Japan

Shinji Nousyo