Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorTetsu Kawasaki
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Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a job receiver that receives a print job; a printer that executes an image forming in accordance with the print job received by the job receiver; and a hardware processor that: receives an adjustment content and a setting of an execution starting condition of an adjustment for an adjustment item relating to the image forming, and registers the adjustment content and the execution starting condition as a profile; and executes the adjustment in accordance with the adjustment content set in the registered profile when the execution starting condition set in the profile is satisfied.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a job receiver that receives a print job;
- a printer that executes an image forming in accordance with the print job received by the job receiver;
- and
- a hardware processor that:
- receives an adjustment content and a setting of an execution starting condition of an adjustment for an adjustment item relating to the image forming, and registers the adjustment content and the execution starting condition as a profile, the execution starting condition being a mechanical status of the image forming apparatus or a predetermined image forming condition;
- when an adjustment interval is secured,
- even though the execution starting condition is satisfied, skipping execution of the adjustment in accordance with the adjustment content set in the registered profile until the printer executes the image forming for predetermined number or more of sheets or a predetermined time elapses since the hardware processor executes the adjustment;
- and
- when an adjustment interval is not secured,
- executing an adjustment profile in accordance with the adjustment content set in the registered profile when the print job includes a designation of the profile;
- and
- executing the adjustment in accordance with the adjustment content set in the registered profile when the execution starting condition set in the profile is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.