Xerox Corporation

Stephen F Skrainar

Donald A Brown

William T Clark, Iii

Andrew T Martin

Keith Lamar Willis

David M Parsons

James B Smith

David L Salgado

Michael F Leo

Ken Hayward

John W Daughton

Brandon Scott McComber

Norman David Robinson, Jr

Cynthia A Smith

Shinya Kogoh

Holly S Beck

Shane Michael Jewitt

Mark S Penke

James J Spence

Wayne A Buchar

Brendan C Casey

Donald J Gusmano

Masaaki Takenouchi

David S Matthews

Thomas A Myers

Charles D Braswell

Keith S Watson

Jonathan A Dorsey

Richard M Hraber

Marilyn S Grzenda

Thibaut Blouin

Shinichi Maekawa

Mitsuharu Ito

Stanley H Brumaghim

An app maintains different multi-modal output signatures. Each multi-modal output signature contains instructions for transducer output with speaker output and/or display output. Also, each multi-modal output signature is unique and different from all other multi-modal output signatures. Further, each different multi-modal output signature corresponds to only one of many possible alerts that may be generated by a printer. The app is adapted to control the printer user interface system and/or a portable device user interface system, to output these multi-modal output signatures in coordination.

Multi-modal multi-device alerts

3D printer

Printer

Direct to object printer

Multifunction office machine

Printer for printing on 3D objects

A system for providing print device dynamic status indicator feedback includes a print device, and a status indicator feedback unit. The print device includes a print engine and one or more status monitors. The status indicator feedback unit includes a display device, a light emitting module, a processor in communication with the light emitting module, and a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions. The system may receive information corresponding to one or more current machine states of the print device from the one or more status monitors of the print device, determine a priority level associated with each of the one or more current machine states, identify a machine state associated with a highest priority level, identify a dynamic feedback pattern associated with the identified machine state. The dynamic feedback pattern includes a visual pattern. The system may and instruct the light emitting module to emit the visual pattern.

System and method for conveying print device status information using a light indicator feedback mechanism

Printing machine

A multifunction device (MFD) includes a print engine, power status monitors, and a user interface. The user interface is at least partially surrounded by a perimeter, and a first light emitting module is positioned to illuminate at least part of the perimeter. The MFD also includes a processor in communication with the first light emitting module and a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions. An MFD may detect a triggering event corresponding to a change in its power status. In response to detecting the triggering event, the MFD may receive information relating to a current power status of the MFD from the power status monitors, identify a dynamic feedback pattern associated with the triggering event, and instruct the first light emitting module to emit a first visual pattern. The dynamic feedback pattern includes the first visual pattern that provides information about the current power status of the MFD to a user.

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Penfield, NY, United States of America

Stephen F Skrainar