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The present invention is directed towards methods and apparatus for handling powder in a 3D printer. The invention includes a means of transporting powder from multiple sources to a powder dispensing apparatus with minimal user intervention, thus reducing contamination of the 3D printer and surrounding area with loose powder, while also providing a means of improving the recycling of powder for re-use.

A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system that supplies a beam of radiation, an array of individually controllable elements that pattern the beam, a substrate table for supporting a substrate, and a projection system that projects the patterned beam onto a target portion of the substrate. The projection system comprises an array of lenses arranged to receive the patterned beam, divide the patterned beam into a plurality of substantially polygonal portions, and focus each substantially polygonal portion to form a respective radiation spot on the target portion of the substrate. In one example, the illumination system comprises an illuminator arranged to receive a beam of radiation from a radiation source, the illuminator comprising an array of lenses arranged to divide the beam of radiation from the source into a plurality of substantially polygonal portions and to focus each substantially polygonal portion onto a respective one of the array of individually controllable elements.

An image forming apparatus which can avert wasteful processing of disconnection from and reconnection to the same host when a currently-connected host and a host that should be connected next are the same. When a print request is received from one of a plurality of hosts, host information indicative of the host is registered so that an order of print requests can be identified. Connection and disconnection to and from the hosts are carried out according to the host information. Printing is carried out based on print data received from the hosts. When a host as a source of a print request received next after a print request from a currently-connected host is the same as the currently-connected host, print data is received from the currently-connected host, and then print data corresponding to the next print request is received from the currently-connected host without disconnecting from the currently-connected host.

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which can verify whether or not an image has been able to be correctly read and easily correct an image which has not been able to be correctly read. The image processing apparatus has a reading section 105, an image processing section 110 for image-processing a read image, and a CPU 110 for controlling the entire apparatus. The image processing section 110 has a detection section 101 for detecting an image in a different state, a verification section 102 for displaying an image in a different state, and a correction section 106 for correcting the image. The image processing section 110 has a preview function for displaying the read image on a display section 108, and a correction function for correcting the image. The image processing apparatus can correct only a tilted image without rereading all images.

In a load balancing communication device and a load balance management device configuring a load balancing system, a storage holds, when the device is a load balancing communication device of a working system, working communication information of the device itself and protection communication information corresponding to working communication information of another or other load balancing communication devices of the working system, or holds, when the device is a load balancing communication device of a redundant system, protection communication information corresponding to working communication information of another or other load balancing communication devices of the working system, and a processing share management portion instructs, when communication processing is no longer performed with the working communication information in the load balancing communication device of the working system, a frame processor to perform communication processing by making the protection communication information corresponding to the working communication information working communication information.

A radio communication apparatus includes a receiving section that receives a quality indication signal from a communicating station of a communicating party, a transmitting section that transmits transmission data corresponding to the quality indication signal to the communicating station, and a non-transmission information notifying section that notifies the communicating station of the communicating party of non-transmission information indicative of not transmitting the transmission data when the apparatus does not transmit the transmission data corresponding to the quality indication signal or the apparatus cannot transmit the transmission data to the communicating station. When the communicating terminal apparatus receives the non-transmission information indicative of not transmitting the transmission data, resources are saved in that the apparatus stops awaiting the data.