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A management device for an image processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a hardware processor.

A colorimetric device includes: a feeding unit configured to feed a transfer medium; a colorimeter configured to perform colorimetry of an image that is formed on the transfer medium and that has a color boundary in a feeding direction; and a colorimetry control unit configured to control the feeding unit and the colorimeter, wherein the colorimetry control unit acquires color information related to the color boundary of the image and determines the color boundary of the image based on the color information and a result of the colorimetry performed by the colorimeter.

A developing device includes a hardware processor that performs control not to cause an image to be formed on an image bearing member by a first developer bearing member and to cause a first image to be formed on the image beating member by a second developer bearing member, in which the hardware processor corrects developing conditions of the plural developer bearing members based on a developability detection result of the first image formed by the second developer bearing member.

According to an image forming apparatus and an image forming method of the present invention, an image is formed by arranging powders 200 on a surface of a resin image composed of sheet S and a color toner layer (resin layer 100) arranged thereon.

A sheet stacking device including a position regulating member movable in a first direction toward a sheet edge and in a second direction away from the sheet edge, in order to regulate position of the sheet.

An image forming system includes a first device and a second device that are connected in series.

The present invention relates to a solid lubricant to be coated on an image bearing member included in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus.

Ultrasound signal processing device including: transmitter causing transmission array composed of all or some transducer elements of ultrasound probe to transmit ultrasound; reception aperture setter designating reception array having center position corresponding to center position of transmission array; transmission time calculator calculating, for each of measurement points arranged within area of reach of ultrasound, transmission time from transmission of ultrasound until arrival of ultrasound at measurement point; reception time calculator calculating reception time from reflection of ultrasound at measurement point until arrival of ultrasound at reception transducer element; delay amount calculator calculating total propagation time being sum of transmission time and reception time, and calculating delay amount for reception transducer element based on total propagation time; delay processor specifying reception signal value corresponding to delay amount, from reception signal sequence corresponding to reception transducer element; and adder generating acoustic line signal for measurement point based on specified reception signal value.

Provided is an ink jet recording apparatus capable of easily and more reliably performing fixation processing on a recording medium moved after image recording.

An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet head and the like that are small, are capable of achieving a higher resolution, increasing ejection stability, and lowering production costs, and include flow paths capable of circulating ink.

The present invention provides a staining method in which the fluorescent staining properties in a fluorescently-immunostained specimen are not reduced even when an oil-based mounting medium is used.

A fixing device has a fixing member, a cleaning roller, and a web, a first drive mechanism, a rotation drive unit, and a control unit.

An image forming apparatus includes: a driving roller that conveys a paper sheet; a detector that detects a desired point on the driving roller; and a hardware processor that: acquires a waveform signal indicating one of a change in an image forming position with respect to the paper sheet and a change in a sheet conveyance velocity; extracts a synchronous waveform signal from the waveform signal acquired by the hardware processor, the synchronous waveform signal being synchronized with one revolution of the driving roller, the one revolution being detected by the detector; and inputs a drive signal to a drive source of the driving roller, the drive signal being input to weaken an amplitude of the synchronous waveform signal extracted by the hardware processor.

Conventionally, it has been impossible to adjust a transportation direction magnification correspondingly to jobs, causing an image to be formed in an unintended size, while the transportation direction magnification for the image formed on the sheet varies with jobs.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image; a developing part that accommodates two-component developer containing toner and a carrier, and supplies the toner to the image carrier; a transferor that transfers the toner image on the image carrier onto paper; a cleaning member that removes the toner remaining on the image carrier; and a hardware processor that controls toner discharge operation in the developing part according to a toner discharge condition, in which the hardware processor sets the toner discharge condition so that a replacement time of the cleaning member overlaps with a replacement time of another consumable.

An information processing apparatus is capable of setting favorite function information in an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus including: a collector that collects function setting item information from models of image forming apparatuses; a candidate selector that selects combinations of candidates of the function setting item information to be included in the favorite function information from the function setting item information and sets a specified function to each of the selected candidates of the function setting item information; an availability display that displays availability in the models of image forming apparatuses, of each of the specified functions of the candidates of the function setting item information selected and set by the candidate selector; and a storage that stores, a combination of allowed candidates, of the combinations of the candidates of the function setting item information to which the specified functions displayed in the availability display have been set.

An image reading apparatus includes a light source that emits light in a main scanning direction to a subject to be read, a light receiving unit that receives light reflected by the subject to be read, and an optical system that images the light reflected by the subject to be read and guides the light to the light receiving unit.

A server connected to an image processing device over a network, executes: running an application that operates in cooperation with the image processing device; obtaining screen information to use the application from the application based on a request from an external device; outputting the screen information to the external device; detecting an error on the image processing device with which the application operates in cooperation; and adding error information to access an error screen constructed by the image processing device to the screen information when the error on the image processing device is detected.