John G Wilson
Pharmacy at Elmhurst Dr, Longmont, CO

7719557, May 18, 2010

Jun 13, 2006

11/451832

John C. Wilson - Longmont CO, US

InfoPrint Solutions Company, LLC - Boulder CO

B41J 2/47, B41J 2/435

347235, 347250

An apparatus for providing delay signals to perform print scan line synchronizations within a laser printer is disclosed. The apparatus includes a voltage-control oscillator, a frequency divider and multiple output control modules. The voltage-control oscillator converts a clock signal to a higher frequency signal. The frequency divider then reduces the frequency of the higher frequency signal. Then, each of the output control modules generates a delay signal, and each of the delay signals is delayed by no more than one tenth of a clock cycle from an adjacent one of the delay signals.

6337958, Jan 8, 2002

Sep 5, 2000

09/655114

Mikel John Stanich - Longmont CO
William Ashmead Courtenay Bateman, III - Longmont CO
John Charles Wilson - Longmont CO

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G03G 1500

399 49, 399306

A duplex printing system including two print engines arranged in tandem for printing a first and second density patch on a print medium, at least one density sensing device adapted for measuring the density of the first and second density patches printed on the print medium by the two print engines and a control for controlling the adjustment of the print engines to enable the density and dot gain of the print output of the first and the second print engines to match. The printing system of the present invention is further characterized by the measurement of the density of the density patch printed by each print engine after the print medium has advanced through the printing system. Thus, the print medium and first and second density patches printed by each print engine is subjected to the same conditions and influences as a print job processed by the printing system. Accordingly, density measurements and adjustments made to the print engines to vary the density of the print engine outputs will be realized in a print job subsequently produced by the printing system and the resultant print job will include printed images printed by two print engines that have matching print characteristics, namely matching density and dot gain.

7133144, Nov 7, 2006

Jul 26, 2001

09/912378

Louis A. Bustamante - Mead CO, US
Samuel N. Hopper - Longmont CO, US
Michael G. Munson - Superior CO, US
John C. Wilson - Longmont CO, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06K 15/00, G06F 3/12

358 114, 358 115

Errors in regard to toner materials which may or may not correspond to toner materials installed in a developer unit of a print engine are avoided by providing storage of data concerning the toner in the printer rather than the dedicated processor. A feedback link is thus developed which extends from the developer unit or print engine through the dedicated processor to the supporting processors. Confidence levels in the correspondence of the information and the installed toner are increased by use of a simple switch position associated with the location of a developer unit. The feedback arrangement for avoidance of printing errors is also fully compatible with a customer changeable developer feature while allowing the printer to be operated in accordance with operating parameters specific to a special purpose toner such as MICR or a color toner.

7408679, Aug 5, 2008

Oct 24, 2003

10/693783

Larry M. Ernst - Longmont CO, US
John Charles Wilson - Longmont CO, US

InfoPrint Solutions Company, LLC. - Boulder CO

H04N 1/40

358 302, 358 17, 358410

Disclosed is a method, system and program product for performing multiple-pel print quality enhancement (PQE). As in known methods of PQE, a determination is made of an adjusted sub-pulse value of each pel of an image. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, at least two adjacent pels are then grouped together and a determination is made of a combined pulse width value to charge the combined area of the at least two adjacent pels. Also determined is position information indicating the alignment of the pulse width within the combined area. The combined pulse width and position information is sent as input to a pulse width modulator operating at a speed equal to the video data rate of the printer divided by the number of pels for which the pulse width data is combined.

8477377, Jul 2, 2013

Dec 9, 2009

12/633925

Mikel Stanich - Longmont CO, US
John Charles Wilson - Longmont CO, US
Larry M. Ernst - Longmont CO, US

InfoPrint Solutions Company LLC - Boulder CO

H04N 1/405, H04N 1/409

358 21, 358 306, 358 323, 358 327

A mechanism for integrating print quality enhancement (PQE) and multi-bit halftone data is disclosed. A system of embodiments of the invention includes a print control unit communicably coupled to a printer, the print control unit operable to process received multi-bit input print data for printing by the printer. The system further comprises a PQE card communicably coupled with the printer, the PQE card configured to separate multi-bit text and line art input data from multi-bit halftone image input data in the multi-bit input print data, ignore any of the identified multi-bit halftone image input data for purposes of applying PQE technology to the identified multi-bit halftone image input data, and apply the PQE technology to the identified multi-bit text and line art input data. Lastly, the system includes a print head communicably coupled to the printer, the print head operable to print multi-bit output created by the PQE card.

4287461, Sep 1, 1981

Dec 6, 1979

6/100773

George G. Promis - Arvada CO
Gerald L. Smith - Broomfield CO
John C. Wilson - Longmont CO

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G05B 2419

318571

A motor driving system which is particularly useful for driving scanning carriages in a continuously variable reducing electrophotographic copier. The motor driving system produces one of a number of different controlled and repeatable position acceleration and velocity profiles of the scanning carriage with respect to motion of the copier drum; a different position acceleration and velocity profile is produced for each reduction mode in a substantially continuous range of reduction modes. The motor driving arrangement includes a single control loop for driving a servo motor which provides the drive for the scanning carriage. A driving signal source produces a driving signal pulse train, each pulse representing a desired increment of motor travel, and a direction signal representative of the desired direction of travekl. A tachometer is responsive to servo motor motion and produces an output signal representative of the direction of motion; the output signal includes a series of tachometer pulses, each pulse representing a given increment of servo motor movement. A logic circuit couples the output of the tachometer, the driving signal pulse train and the direction signal to an up/down counter which is stepped in one direction for each driving signal pulse, and which is also stepped in another or one direction, respectively, for each tachometer pulse which represents a direction which is the same as or different from the direction of the direction signal.

2011000, Jan 13, 2011

Jul 9, 2009

12/499912

John Charles Wilson - Longmont CO, US
John Thomas Varga - Longmont CO, US

G06F 15/00

358 115

A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a print job, rasterizing the print job to produce rasterized data having a multi bit per pel print format, compressing the rasterized data into compressed data having a data section and a control section including compression control bits corresponding to each data value in the data section and transmitting the compressed data.

6286124, Sep 4, 2001

Apr 21, 1999

9/296206

Samuel Neely Hopper - Longmont CO
Christopher Starbuck Kush - Longmont CO
John Charles Wilson - Longmont CO

International Business Machines Corp. - Armonk NY

G06F 1100, G06F 702

714799

An method and apparatus for error checking. A known test pattern is written into a predetermined byte of a scan line. The method may include generating a known test pattern in a byte of a scan line and transmitting the scan line data through a first data path. The scan line data at the end of the first data path may be evaluated to determine if the test pattern is still in the predetermined byte of the scan line. If the pattern in the predetermined byte is correct, the test pattern may be removed from the predetermined byte and the scan line data may be transmitted to a print engine. If the pattern in the predetermined byte is incorrect, then a signal may be sent to terminate the transmission of the scan line data.

8608273, Dec 17, 2013

Mar 2, 2011

13/038880

Larry M. Ernst - Longmont CO, US
Michael J. Holley - Broomfield CO, US
Mikel J. Stanich - Longmont CO, US
John C. Wilson - Longmont CO, US

Ricoh Production Print Solutions - Boulder CO

B41J 29/38

347 16

Methods and systems herein provide for print data compensation for a print head based on a lateral offset of a media relative to the print head. In one embodiment, a print controller of a printer identifies an edge of a media that is parallel to a direction of travel of the media, and determines a lateral offset between the edge of the media and a print head of the printer. The print controller then modifies data for the print head based on the lateral offset to compensate for a lateral motion of the media relative to the print head.