Image forming apparatus and control method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSetsuo Takada
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a printer configured to form an image on a sheet at a carrying speed, a first reading/writing unit configured read tag information stored in a wireless tag disposed on the sheet and to write tag information to the wireless tag, a reading/writing control unit configured to control the first reading/writing unit to read tag information stored in the wireless tag and to write tag information to the wireless tag, and a printer control unit configured to control the carrying speed of the sheet according to a total number of wireless tags disposed on the sheet.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printer configured to form an image on a sheet at a carrying speed;
- a first reading/writing unit configured to read tag information stored in a wireless tag disposed on the sheet and to write tag information to the wireless tag;
- a reading/writing control unit configured to control the first reading/writing unit to read tag information stored in the wireless tag and to write tag information to the wireless tag;
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- a printer control unit configured to control the carrying speed of the sheet according to a total number of wireless tags disposed on the sheet.
The image forming apparatus according to claim wherein the reading/writing control unit is further configured to read identification information stored in each of the plurality of wireless tags and to update to the identification information on each of the plurality of wireless tags.
A method for controlling an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- forming an image on a sheet;
- controlling a carrying speed of the sheet according to a total number of wireless tags disposed on the sheet;
- reading tag information stored in a wireless tag on the sheet;
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- writing tag information to the wireless tag.
A controller for a printer, comprising:
- a first reading/writing unit configured to read tag information stored in each of a plurality of wireless tags disposed on a sheet and to write tag information to each of the plurality of wireless tags;
- a reading/writing control unit configured to control the first reading/writing unit based on identification information stored in each of the plurality of wireless tags;
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- a printer control unit configured to control the printer to change a carrying speed of the sheet according to a number of the plurality of wireless tags disposed on the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.