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A multifunctional device, such as a multifunction printer, enabling dynamic configurations of the icons on a graphical user interface. In some embodiments, the dynamic configurations create context specific icon layouts. Additionally, in some embodiments, a single icon button can be dynamically configured to represent a particular workflow operation conventionally requiring several inputs by a user at the graphical user interface. Specifically, the display of some embodiments can dynamically change to reflect the “next step” context within a workflow operation. Also, the display of some embodiments can dynamically change to reflect a unique user-context on the graphical user interface.

A method and system for automated production of stereoscopic and animated images and hardcopies can utilize a light-sensitive lenticular material employing a conventional or non-conventional photographic emulsion or an instant-developing material. An automated printer can produce autostereoscopic and animated hardcopies in multiple formats from digital and non-digital sources, including single images, stereopairs, and multiple-image sets of negatives, transparencies, or prints. The printer, which includes a projection device and a material plate that can rotate around two perpendicular axes, can utilize software to automate viewing angle calculation, printer control, multiple-image alignment, distortion correction, and image processing and conversion. A digital camera can capture stereoscopic and animated images and record them digitally or on photographic film. A non-digital camera can record stereoscopic and animated images directly onto light-sensitive lenticular material employing a conventional or non-conventional photographic emulsion or an instant-developing material. The printer and cameras can utilize autostereoscopic monitors to preview parallax.

Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred automatically and/or selectively to another display device for example a TV, camera or printer. The selectivity may occur either at the host level or at the player level.

A sequence of events (SOE) recorder facility in a process control network environment is described herein. The SOE recorder facility is hosted by a networked node that receives digital signal status change (event) data from a networked controller. The sequence of events recorder facility receives a configured set of digital data signals from the controller, temporarily buffers the events in chronological order according to timestamps assigned to the events by their sources (e.g., fieldbus modules). The data is thereafter copied/removed from the buffer and provided to multiple destinations including: a process database that maintains an archival copy of the received event data for rendering event reports, and an SOE client user interface for rendering event logs to printers and/or graphical user interface displays.

A method of operating a printer coupled to a computer, the method comprising associating one or more permissions of a printer driver resident on the computer with an operating system managed object and, when an attempt is made to print on said print device or a User Interface of the printer driver opened, setting the status of said permissions according to one or more security settings of the operating system managed object.

Wireless communications between a digital camera and a printer dock are established in a simple manner. A processor (10f) of a digital camera (10) detects a printer dock (12) within communication range via a communications circuit (10e) and its ID is acquired. The processor (10f) uses the acquired ID to transmit a sequential power transmit request to the printer dock (12). In response to this request, the printer dock (12) wirelessly transmits power from a communications circuit (12b) and a transmitting coil (12c). When power is received by a receiving coil (10a), it specifies that printer dock (12) is the communication party, and photographed data is wirelessly transmitted using an ID of the specified printer dock (12).

A printer of the present invention includes a first and a second tray each being movable between a full-closed position and an open position. When the operator moves the first tray in the opening direction, the first tray forces the second tray located on the locus of movement of the first tray in the opening direction, uncovering a first and a second opening at the same time. When the operator moves the second tray in the closing direction, the second tray forces the first tray located on the locus of movement of the first tray in the closing direction, covering the two openings at the same time. The operator can therefore move the two trays by a single action.

Printing one or more value indicia onto a printable medium using a remote device coupled to a computer server via a communications network includes accessing the computer server with the remote device. A user is prompted to select a serial number associated with the printable medium, and the serial number is transmitted to the computer server using the remote device. A print control program is received from the computer server. Information for printing one or more value indicia are transmitted from the computer server to the remote device. The print control program executes on the remote device to print the one or more value indicia to the printable medium using a printer coupled with the remote device.

It is an object of the present invention, e.g., where image file(s) are sent directly to printer(s) from digital camera(s) or other such peripheral equipment and printing of same is automatically carried out thereat, to cause interruption of printing in units of page(s) during battery consumption and to prevent occurrence of wasted printed output.

Camera 10 and printer 20 support DPOF printing, it being possible to instruct printer 20 to print image file(s) from camera 10 without use of an intervening personal computer or the like. Camera 10 issues print cancellation(s) upon determining that continuation of printing has, due to consumption of internal battery 18, become impossible. Printer 20 interrupts current printing session(s) at location(s) serving as convenient division(s) (i.e., in units of page(s) and/or object(s)), and communicates job status information to camera 10. During resumption of printing, job status information and DPOF script file(s) are sent from camera 10 to printer 20, and printing resumes from unprinted portion(s).

This invention provides a technique which allows the user to select whether or not to make print settings without any special operation such as key operations or button operations upon printing information held by a mobile terminal using a printer. To this end, in a case where it is detected that a mobile terminal is located with an NFC communication range, an NFC communication is established to exchange information so as to prepare for transition to a BT communication, information to be printed is received via the BT communication, thus printing the information. At this time, only in a case where an established state of the NFC communication is continued for a predetermined period of time since the NFC communication is established, a detailed print setting menu is displayed.

The invention relates to identification documents, and in particular to providing optically variable personalized data to identification documents. In one implementation, we provide an identification document comprising a document layer and a first indicium. The document layer comprises a material capable of being printed by a thermally transferable optically variable ink. The first indicium is printed on the document layer and comprises personalized data and printed to the document layer by a thermally transferred optically variable ink. The first indicium may be printed to the document layer by disposing a thermally transferable optically variable ink in a mass transfer panel of a printer ribbon adapted for use in a dye diffusion thermal transfer printer, and printing the first indicium as part of a mass transfer printing process. The thermally transferred optically variable ink can be selected and printed such that the first indicium has at least one of a luster, shine, sheen, pearlescent appearance, iridescent appearance, and mirror-like appearance. This technology enables the creation of a halftone “mirror image” over a color ghost image to achieve a layered and linked multiple personalization scheme of ID documents.

Disclosed is a system for routing print jobs to one of a plurality of printers or print queues, such as a logical print queue. After providing a print job, a set of printers capable of printing the print job is determined. The set of printers is queried to determine status information thereon. A criterion is then applied to the status information for the set of printers to determine a subset of printers. The determined subset is dependent upon the determined status information. A printer is selected from the subset and the print job is routed to the selected printer.

The remote printing system allows one user to ultimately send a hard copy to another via a portable digital device such as a cellular phone. Upon receiving an e-mail print notice, the portable digital device wirelessly searches an appropriate print station in the vicinity by broadcasting a signal. In response to the broadcasted search signal, the print stations each send information on their printer characteristics such as availability status and print resolution to the portable digital device, a print server or a client that originated the print request. The recipient of the printer characteristic information selects an appropriate print station based upon a predetermined selection rule.

According to this invention, an information processing apparatus which customizes a device driver for controlling an image forming apparatus includes an issuing unit which issues identification information for specifying a customized driver, and a storage unit which stores, in association with the customized driver, the identification information issued by the issuing unit.

In a redirect-on-error print system of this invention, when an error notification is acquired, only printer drivers having the same function as that of the printer driver which has output the data to the printer with the print error are listed up from registered printer drivers, and the user is caused to select a redirect-on-error print destination from them so that any inappropriate print output can reliably be avoided. In the redirect-on-error print system, a print job is transmitted to one of a plurality of printers connected to a network. When a print error has occurred in the printer, processing is executed to cause another printer to execute redirect-on-error printing of the print job. In the redirect-on-error print system, the error in the printer which is processing the print job is detected, and the user is notified of it. Of the plurality of printers connected to the network, the printer driver of a redirect-on-error enable printer which can process the print job in behalf of the printer with the error is detected. The user is notified of the detected printer driver as a redirect-on-error destination candidate.

A printer that applies donor material from donor patches on a donor web to a receiver medium using a thermal printhead that generates heat and a method for operating such a printer are provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a print order requesting the printing of a quantity of images; determining a temperature of the printhead; printing a designated number of the quantity of the images in a sequence; determining a length of time of a programmed delay; delaying the printing for the determined length of time of the programmed delay; and printing remaining images from the quantity of images. The length of each programmed delay is determined by using the temperature of the printhead and a time rate of cooling of the printhead and, is determined in a manner that provides a sufficient cooling time to prevent the printhead from reaching a maximum printhead temperature during printing.

A method is provided for reducing image artifacts in printers that employ two or more printhead nozzle banks that must be aligned and registered with respect to each other either through adjustment of orientation and/or position of one nozzle bank relative to another or through selective control of actuation. In the method, discrete dots are printed by the nozzle banks upon a target receiver medium. Examination of the receiver medium or a reproduction thereof is made by a scanner and information regarding location of the dots is generated. From information regarding location of the dots a determination is made of error placement of the dots from ideal locations. Alignment of the nozzle banks are made in accordance with any errors determined in placement.

Cationic underprinting fluids, which together with pigment-based ink compositions achieve enhanced durability, chroma, optical density and print quality in inkjet printed images.

A printing system capable of writing RFID data consistent with print information printed on a print-information recoding medium into a RFID chip carried on the print-information recording medium. The printing system includes a printer engine for printing print information, including at least either one of contactlessly readable information and image information visible to human being, onto at least the print-information recording medium, and an RFID reader/writer for writing RFID data consistent with the print information into the RFID chip carried on the print-information recording medium.

The server which provides at least one of an image and additional information of the image via a network to a mobile terminal of an access source when access is received from the mobile terminal via the network using access information recorded together with the image on a prescribed print medium, the server comprises: an encrypting device which encrypts identification information corresponding to the image; an access information generating device which generates the access information containing a plain text URL required for access to the server and the encrypted identification information; a print instruction information creating device which creates instruction information that the access information is recorded together with the image onto a print medium by a prescribed printer; a receiving device which receives the encrypted identification information contained in the access information from the mobile terminal when the access information recorded on the print medium is inputted to the mobile terminal; a decrypting device which decrypts the encrypted identification information that is received; and a transmitting device which transmits at least one of the image and the additional information of the image that correspond to the decrypted identification information to the mobile terminal.

Defects in an image forming system may give rise to visible streaks, or one-dimensional defects in an image that run parallel to the process direction. One known method for compensating for streaks introduces a separate tone reproduction curve for each pixel column in the process direction. A compensation pattern according to this invention has a plurality of halftone regions that are lead by, trained by, and separated by rows of fiducial marks. The fiducial marks allow the printer pixel grid and a scanning pixel grid to be correlated. The gray level in each pixel column of each gray level portion is measured and analyzed to produce a local tone reproduction curve for each pixel column and associated line width. The local tone reproduction curves are then used to compensate for the streak defect when printing.

Exemplary embodiments provide a license-authentication functioned output system which enables data protection positive and enhances and/or improves a user's convenience, further being suited to reduce processing load. A printer receives document data and a user ID and sends design resource-data authentication information and the user ID included in the document data, together with an authentication request, to a data authentication server. When a use-permitting information is received, it prints a design resource within a use-permitted scope depending upon the use-permitting information and design resource data. A data authentication server searches through a license information register table on the basis of the authentication information and reads out license information concerned. The data authentification server decides whether or not the received user ID is included in the license information. When it is decided that the user ID is included, the use-permitting information included in the license information is sent to the printer.

The technique of the present invention intermediates between an arbitrary client and an arbitrary printer connecting with a network to actualize practical printing works. A print portal system utilizing a server connected to the network intermediates between the client and the printer to execute a printing operation. The client outputs a printing requirement, which specifies print data of interest and a printer as an output resource, to the print portal system. The print portal system converts the input print data into data of a general purpose format, which does not depend upon the type of the printer, and transfers the converted print data to the specified printer.

A program for rewarding players for gaming at a casino establishment provides a player with real-time incentives while the player is playing at a gaming machine in the casino. Information about the player and/or the player's gaming activity is collected while the player is at a gaming machine in a casino. This information is used by a marketing system to select an incentive to provide to the player. The incentive is then delivered to the player, for example manually by a casino employee or automatically using a printer or other mechanism at the gaming machine. Various types of incentives can be provided to a player, including incentives designed to provide the player with an experience that is favorable to the casino and incentives designed to keep the player gaming in a casino for a longer amount of time.

Ribbon tension detecting means (20, 21), which are formed of a plate-like lever body (35) each, are located individually on the upstream side and the downstream side of a platen (7) with respect to its travel. The plate-like lever body (35) has first and second rollers (47, 48) on the upstream and downstream sides with respect to travel of a ribbon, and swings around an axis of rotation of the second roller (48), depending on a tension of the ribbon traveling guided by the rollers (47, 48). If the amount of its swing is not less than or not more than a fixed value, a ribbon feed motor (18) or a ribbon take-up motor (19) is driven. Further, the ribbon tension detecting means (20, 21) are provided with a smoothing member which touches the ink ribbon (13) to remove wrinkles from the ink ribbon (13).

In a print status monitor system of the invention, a specified printer receives a polling interval reduction request from a server in response to polling made at a normal polling interval set to a polling interval, and changes the polling interval to a shorter polling interval, which is shorter than the normal polling interval. The server sends a print status transmission request to the specified printer, in response to polling made by the specified printer at the shorter polling interval. The specified printer receives the print status transmission request sent from the server in response to the polling made to the server at the shorter polling interval, obtains print status information representing the status of a print job, and sends the obtained print status information to the server. The server receives and obtains the print status information sent from the specified printer in response to the print status transmission request. This arrangement enables the server to monitor the status of a print job sent to a printer under management of the server, while reducing the potential for heavy network traffic.

An STB (120), to which a printer (130) is connected, includes: a reception unit (121) to receive externally update data for updating a firmware of the printer and a display content which includes a description indicating that the update data is to be printed; a display data generation unit (122) to generate display data for displaying the display content on the TV (123); a remote control reception unit (125) to receive a print command for the display content; and a print output unit (127) to output, to the printer (130), the update data, as data to be printed, when the remote control reception unit (125) receives the print command.

A printing method for use with a print system including a computer and a printer connected to the computer directly or by way of a network, the method including the steps of: directing the printer to effect printing and storage of a document prepared by the computer in an arbitrary combination of formats; transmitting the document to the printer; effecting receipt by the printer of the document transmitted from the computer; and effecting printing and storage of the document according to the instruction from the computer.

The invention provides high-speed and high-quality printing when the vertical and horizontal resolutions of print data to be printed differ from the vertical and horizontal resolutions which a printer can process. A table is provided, in which the relationship of position in each printing pass of each of a plurality of pins aligned in the vertical direction of a printing head to a plurality of raster lines in a predetermined range to be printed is examined, whereby the pins aligned in the vertical line to be actuated in each printing pass are determined based on the relationship of a position between each of the pins and each of the raster lines. The table serves as a raster-line/pin-relationship table. A printer driver receives print data from a print-data forming unit, consults the raster-line/pin-relationship table, and actuates the pins for each printing pass according to the raster-line/pin-relationship table.

A system and method of supporting controlled access to multimedia information and media-related services via a broadband access gateway is disclosed. A plurality of user manageable tiers of access privilege may be implemented by the broadband access gateway, that may support communication using, for example, a wireless personal area network and a broadband network. A different degree of user authentication and/or identification may be established for each of the tiers, and users may be restricted in their access to multimedia information and services by their current tier of access privilege. The multimedia information and services may be provided by a variety of access devices via the personal area network, and from providers accessible via the broadband network connected to the gateway. Examples of access devices include mobile multimedia handsets, personal digital assistants, personal computers, digital cameras, and printers. The multimedia information may, for example, comprise data, text, and digitized voice, images, video, and music. The tiers of access privilege may be managed via, for example, the personal area network or from the broadband network, by a user with an access device.