Abstract:
An image decoloring device includes: a decoloring processing unit configured to perform decoloring for removing the color of a decolorable colorant; a sheet carrying unit configured to transfer a sheet and causing the sheet to pass through the decoloring processing unit; a print condition detection unit arranged upstream of a direction in which the sheet is transferred by the sheet carrying unit with respect to the decoloring processing unit, the print condition detection unit obtaining print condition information indicating the print condition of an image formed on the sheet; and a process controlling unit configured to control the decoloring processing unit based on a result of detection given from the print condition detection unit.
Abstract:
A sheet finisher of the invention includes a saddle stitch unit configured to stitch a center of a sheet bundle in which printed sheets are bundled, a fold unit configured to fold the center stitched by the saddle stitch unit and to form a fold line, and a fold reinforcing unit configured to reinforce the fold line formed by the fold unit, the fold reinforcing unit includes a roller unit that includes a reinforce roller with a structure for preventing an occurrence of a wrinkle, and moves along a direction of the fold line while applying pressure by the reinforce roller to the fold line of the sheet bundle transported from the fold unit, and a drive unit configured to move the roller unit along the direction of the fold line from a standby position located at a position separate from an end of the sheet bundle.
Abstract:
An image erasing apparatus includes: a scanner which detects a side of a sheet on which an image is formed using a thermally decolorable coloring agent; a heat roller which provides heat for the sheet having the image formed thereon; and a controller which causes a quantity of heat provided for the sheet from the heat roller when an image forming side detected by the scanner does not face the heat roller to be greater than a quantity of heat provided for the sheet from the heat roller when the image forming side faces the heat roller.
Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet processing apparatus control unit; a folding motor, a rotating direction of which is controlled by the sheet processing apparatus control unit; a low-speed gear train configured to be driven when the folding motor normally rotates; a high-speed gear train configured to be driven when the folding motor reversely rotates; and a saddle-folding driving roller configured to be driven by a gear train selected from the low-speed gear train and the high-speed gear train. When the number of recording media to be saddle-stapled or saddle-folded exceeds predetermined numbers respectively set for the saddle stapling and the saddle folding, the sheet processing apparatus control unit drives the saddle-folding driving roller at low speed. When the number of recording media to be saddle-stapled or saddle-folded does not exceed the predetermined numbers, the sheet processing apparatus control unit drives the saddle-folding driving roller at high speed.
Abstract:
A sheet folding apparatus includes: a carrying path through which a printed sheet is carried and which has an exit facing upward; a tray on which the sheet carried through the carrying path is stacked while being vertically sloped; an assist roller which rotates in a manner of pushing the sheet against the tray and pushing the sheet upward on the tray before a rear end of the sheet is discharged from the exit after a forward end of the sheet passes the exit of the carrying path, and which rotates in a reverse direction in a manner of pushing the sheet downward on the tray after the rear end of the sheet is discharged from the exit; and a stacker which is provided below the tray and receives and supports the rear end of the sheet pushed down by the assist roller.
Abstract:
An information recording apparatus includes a registration unit that registers scheduling information to schedule single recording of information provided periodically; a recording unit that records the information on a recording medium based on the registered scheduling information; a counting unit that counts the number of times of registering the scheduling information of the information; a determination unit that determines whether the number of times of registering the scheduling information of the information exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and a registering unit that generates, when the number of times of registering the scheduling information of the information exceeds the predetermined threshold value, repeated scheduling information to enable the recording unit to periodically and repeatedly record the information, and registers the repeated scheduling information in the registration unit.
Abstract:
A hard disk of a recording device is registered with in-advance setting data specifying a sports genre, a detection team/player and a detection period. A sports information service server accessible via a network N from the recording device includes a winning/losing outcome database recorded with information specifying a genre to which a game belongs and an outcome of wining or losing in each game with respect to the respective games held domestically and overseas. A CPU of the recording device, when reaching the detection time defined in the in-advance setting data, specifies the defined genre and the detection team/player, then receives the winning/losing data from the sports information service server, and determines whether the detection team/player defined in the in-advance setting data lost in the game or not. Then, when determining that the detection team/player lost in the game, a scheme is to prevent the already recorded data of the broadcast program of the game from remaining on the hard disk.
Abstract:
According to the invention, a sheet finisher has a folding mechanism, a discharging mechanism, a stacking mechanism, and a slip amount calculator. The folding mechanism forms a folding line by folding a sheet which an image forming unit discharges. The discharging mechanism discharges the sheet including the folding line which the folding mechanism forms. The stacking mechanism stacks the sheet which the discharging mechanism discharges. The slip amount calculator outputs a fullness state of the stacking mechanism to the image forming unit, if a slip amount of the discharging mechanism exceeds a threshold.
Abstract:
A sheet stack apparatus comprises a storage portion configured to support sheets conveyed one by one in a standing position, a receiving portion configured to receive lower ends of the sheets supported by the storage portion, an assisting member configured to move from a first position to the storage portion side and at a second position where the assisting member contacts with the sheets conveyed to the storage portion, assist stacking of the sheets on the storage portion, and a holding member configured to move in correspondence with a movement of the assisting member via an attaching portion, when the assisting member is at the second position, separate from the lower ends of the sheets, and when the assisting member is at the first position where the assisting member is separated from the sheets supported by the storage portion, contact with the lower ends of the sheets, thereby hold them on the storage portion side.
Abstract:
A duplex printer, in which when a first thermal head prints information on a front side as an information printing side of a printing medium, a second thermal head repeatedly prints a previously registered and selected fixed pattern or notice information on a back side as an information non-printing side of a printing medium at regular cycle or at an optional timing.