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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Satoru Sugishita, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Satoru Sugishita, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of different types of imaging means, each associated with one of a plurality of different types of imaging applications, each imaging application producing a print job containing image data; an engine configured to cause the image data to be reproduced on a recording medium; and an image data regulation manager used in common among the different types of applications and configured to interface the image data from said different types of applications between the engine and said different types of applications.