IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROGRAM
    1.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180299814A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-18

    申请号:US15914330

    申请日:2018-03-07

    Inventor: Masahiro MATSUO

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a print job acquisitor that acquires a print job; a hardware processor that calculates, before starting printing based on the print job, a distance in a paper conveying direction in which the printing is continuously executed, and in a case where the distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance, allows a user to select at least one image as a print image out of a first image generated on the basis of the print job and a second image different from the first image; and a printing part that prints the print image selected by the user on paper.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180275581A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-27

    申请号:US15927289

    申请日:2018-03-21

    Inventor: Toshiaki TOMINO

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that has an image carrier for supporting toner and prints a first image formed by exposure to the image carrier and a developing processing on continuous paper; and a hardware processor that controls the image former so as to print a second image on the continuous paper in a case where information on at least one of coverage and a printing distance of the first image formed by the image former meets a predetermined condition, wherein the hardware processor controls the image former so as to stop forming the second image on the image carrier before a toner amount of the second image per unit width at a predetermined position on the image carrier in a main scanning direction exceeds a threshold value affecting an exposure memory.

    Image formation device
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10073400B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-11

    申请号:US15466154

    申请日:2017-03-22

    Inventor: Toshiaki Tomino

    Abstract: An image formation device includes: an image formation section configured to develop, using toner, an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier based on job image information, thereby transferring a first image onto continuous paper; a hardware processor configured to determine whether or not a serial printing distance is equal to or shorter than a first threshold, wherein the serial printing distance is a distance at which the first image is printed on the continuous paper, and control the image formation section to print the first image on the continuous paper when the serial printing distance is equal to or shorter than a first threshold, and to decrease the proportion of deteriorated toner in a developer by printing the first image and a second image on the continuous paper when the serial printing distance exceeds a first threshold, wherein the second image is based on an image information.

    Image forming device
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09977358B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-22

    申请号:US15613643

    申请日:2017-06-05

    Inventor: Masaru Ohtsuka

    Abstract: An image forming device continuously forming an image according to a job in a conveying direction of along continuous paper includes: an image formation section forming the image according to the job on the continuous paper; an interval setting section setting a job interval of the image according to the job, which is continuously formed by the image formation section, on the basis of an operation from a user; an image forming process switching section switching two states of a state where the image formation section forms a color image and a state where the image formation section forms a monochromic image; and a switching determination section determining whether or not the two states are switched on the basis of a comparison result between the job interval set by the interval setting section and a paper conveying distance according to a switching time required for switching the two states.

    Image forming system controlling formation of a proof image

    公开(公告)号:US09891569B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-13

    申请号:US15225558

    申请日:2016-08-01

    Inventor: Hiroyuki Konishi

    CPC classification number: G03G15/652 G03G15/55 G03G2215/00569

    Abstract: An image forming system includes: a sheet feeding unit configured to feed continuous paper into an image forming unit; a winding unit configured to wind up the continuous paper; the image forming unit configured to perform image formation on the continuous paper being conveyed from the sheet feeding unit to the winding unit; and a processor configured to perform control to form a proof image in a second job immediately after completion of a first job and put the second job into a standby state, when a setting is made for formation of the proof image for checking a predetermined page in the second job after completion of the first job but before execution of the second job.

    Image forming apparatus for controlling a color density of an image on a continous recording medium

    公开(公告)号:US09885989B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-06

    申请号:US15215569

    申请日:2016-07-20

    Inventor: Takahiro Tsuno

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit for forming successive images and a pattern image with developer on a transfer member, the successive images including a first image and at least one second image subsequent to the first image; a conveying unit for conveying a medium; a transfer unit for transferring the successive images on the transfer member onto the medium; a detector for detecting the pattern image on the transfer member; a controller for causing the image forming unit to form the pattern image between the first image and the at least one second image and form the at least one second image on the transfer member based on the detection of the pattern image by the detector; and a separation unit for separating the transfer member and the medium from each other to prevent the pattern image from being transferred onto the medium.

    Image forming system for reducing waste paper

    公开(公告)号:US09851662B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-26

    申请号:US15237014

    申请日:2016-08-15

    Inventor: Shingo Sasami

    Abstract: An image forming system includes a sheet conveyance unit, an image forming unit, a fixing unit and a controller. The sheet conveyance unit conveys continuous paper. The image forming unit forms an image on the continuous paper. The fixing unit fixes the image formed on the continuous paper. The controller controls an image forming operation performed by the sheet conveyance unit, the image forming unit and the fixing unit. In a case where a waste paper reduction mode is selected, the controller controls the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that a bottom end of a last image on the continuous paper be at a second stop position on an upper-stream side of a first stop position after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation.

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