B41J 11/485
Means for selecting a type of copy material amongst different types of
Official title: {Means for selecting a type of copy material amongst different types of copy material in the printing apparatus}
B41J11/485 (Means for selecting a type of copy material amongst different types of) appears on 195 US grants and 229 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Image forming apparatus, display control method, and computer readable storage medium17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273968 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing apparatus, method for controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium4 Dec 2025US 2025/0370664 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing apparatus, and control method thereof31 Jul 2025US 2025/0242603 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus capable of feeding recording paper sheet from alternative sheet feed device when unable to feed recording paper sheet from sheet feed device for adjustment processing1 May 2025US 2025/0138465 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
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- Methods and apparatus for media selection in cluster printing systems26US 6,962,449 B2Electronics for Imaging, Inc. · 2005