Printing system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorTakehiro Fujita
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Abstract
A series of conveyance paths to convey a recording medium is formed across a printer and a post-processing device in a printing system. The printing system includes: a detection unit that detects that the post-processing device has entered a predetermined state; and a paper feeding control unit that limits the number of recording media fed to the conveyance path, when it is not detected that the post-processing device has entered the predetermined state, based on the number of recording media conveyable to the post-processing device after the post-processing device enters the predetermined state.
Claims9
A printing system in which a series of conveyance paths to convey a recording medium are formed across a printer and a post-processing device, the printing system comprising:
- a detection unit that detects that the post-processing device has entered a predetermined state;
- and
- a paper feeding control unit that limits the number of recording media fed to the conveyance path based on a first number that is the number of recording media conveyable to the post-processing device after the post-processing device enters the predetermined state,
- wherein, when the detection unit does not detect that the post-processing device has entered the predetermined state, the paper feeding control unit is configured to
- determine if the number of recording media in the conveyance path is equal to or less than the first number,
- cause a recording medium to not be fed in response to determination that the number of recording media in the conveyance path is not equal to or less than the first number, and
- cause the recording medium to be fed in response to determination that the number of recording media in the conveyance path is equal to or less than the first number, and
- wherein the paper feeding control unit is configured to increment a feeding count when causing a recording medium to be fed, decrement the feeding count when a recording medium having been subjected to the post processing by the post-processing device is ejected from the post-processing device, and use the feeding count as the number of recording media in the conveyance path.
A printing system comprising a printer and a post-processing device that binds recording media printed by the printer with a ring binding member for every designated number of recording media and thus generate and eject a sheaf of recording media, wherein a series of conveyance paths to convey the recording medium are formed across the printer and the post-processing device, the printing system comprising:
- a detection unit that detects that a remaining number of the ring binding members has become N (where N is a predetermined number) at a timing when the sheaf is ejected;
- and
- a paper feeding control unit that limits the number of recording media fed to the conveyance path based on a first number that is the number of recording media to be included in the sheaves generated with the N ring binding members,
- wherein when the detection unit does not detect that the remaining number of ring binding members has become N, the paper feeding control unit is configured to
- determine if the number of recording media in the conveyance path is equal to or less than the first number,
- cause a recording medium to be not fed in response to determination that the number of recording media in the conveyance path is not equal to or less than the first number, and
- cause the recording medium to be fed in response to determination that the number of recording media in the conveyance path is equal to or less than the first number,
- wherein when it is detected that the remaining number of the ring binding members has become N, the paper feeding control unit is configured to halt paper feeding of a recording medium to the conveyance path, and
- wherein the paper feeding control unit is configured to increment a feeding count when causing a recording medium to be fed, decrement the feeding count when a recording medium having been subjected to the post processing by the post-processing device is ejected from the post-processing device, and use the feeding count as the number of recording media in the conveyance path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.