Image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNoriyuki Takuwa
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Abstract
In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus has an image forming device, a discharge port of a recording medium, a conveying device of the recording medium, and a controller. The controller judges a kind of the recording medium and the discharge port that is a conveying destination of the recording medium. The controller controls a conveying speed of the recording medium to be discharged from the discharge port by the conveying device, in accordance with the kind of the recording medium and the conveying destination of the recording medium which have been judged.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a chassis;
- an image forming device which is housed in the chassis and which forms an image on a recording medium;
- a plurality of discharge ports of the recording medium provided at a downstream side of the image forming device, the discharge ports including a first discharge port provided on an upper surface of the chassis and a second discharge port provided at a side surface of the chassis;
- a conveying device which conveys the recording medium to the first or the second discharge port via the image forming device;
- and
- a controller configured to
- acquire information indicating a type of recording medium,
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of a first type based on the acquired information, control the conveying device so that after the recording medium has been conveyed at a first speed at the downstream side from the image forming device, the recording medium is decelerated to a second speed that is slower than the first speed and is discharged from the first or the second discharge port, and
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of a second type based on the acquired information, control the conveying device so that after the recording medium has been conveyed at a third speed that is slower than the first speed at the downstream side from the image forming device, the recording medium is discharged from the first or the second discharge port at a speed equal to or slower than the third speed.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a chassis;
- an image forming device which is housed in the chassis and which forms an image on a recording medium;
- a first discharge port provided on an upper surface of the chassis and at a downstream side of the image forming device;
- a second discharge port provided at a side surface of the chassis and at a downstream side of the image forming device;
- a conveying device which conveys the recording medium to the first discharge port or the second discharge port via the image forming device;
- and
- a controller configured to
- acquire information indicating a type of recording medium,
- judge whether a conveying destination of the recording medium is the first discharge port or the second discharge port,
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of a first type based on the acquired information, control the conveying device so that after the recording medium has been conveyed at a first speed at the downstream side from the image forming device, the first type of recording medium is discharged from the first discharge port or the second discharge port at a second speed,
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of a second type based on the acquired information, and having judged that the conveying destination of the recording medium is the first discharge port, control the conveying device so that the second type of recording medium is discharged from the first discharge port at a fourth speed, and
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of the second type based on the acquired information, and having judged that the conveying destination of the recording medium is the second discharge port, control the conveying device so that the second type of recording medium is discharged from the second discharge port at a third speed that is faster than the fourth speed.
An image forming method of an image forming apparatus having a chassis, an image forming device which is housed in the chassis and which forms an image on a recording medium, a first discharge port which is provided on an upper surface of the chassis and at a downstream side of the image forming device, a second discharge port which is provided at a side surface of the chassis and at downstream sides of the image forming device, and a conveying device which conveys the recording medium to the first discharge port or the second discharge port via the image forming device, comprising:
- acquiring information indicating a type of recording medium, and judging whether the type of recording medium is of a first or a second type;
- judging whether a conveying destination of the recording medium is the first discharge port or the second discharge port;
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of the first type, decelerating a conveying speed of the first type of recording medium irrespective of the judgement result of the conveying destination, and discharging the first type of recording medium from the first discharge port or the second discharge port;
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of the second type, and having judged that the conveying destination of the recording medium is the first discharge port, decelerating the conveying speed of the second type of recording medium, and discharging the second type of recording medium from the first discharge port;
- and
- when having judged that the type of recording medium is of the second type, and having judged that the conveying destination of the recording medium is the second discharge port, discharging the second type of recording medium from the second discharge port, without decelerating the conveying speed of the second type of recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.