Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsYusuke Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Arai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on continuous paper, includes: an image former that forms an image on the continuous paper; a conveyer that conveys the continuous paper in a forward direction that is a conveyance direction at a time of image formation and conveys the continuous paper to the image former; an image diagnosis part that detects abnormality of the image formed by the image former and performs diagnosis of a degree of the detected abnormality; and a hardware processor that switches whether to continue conveyance of the continuous paper in the forward direction according to a result of the diagnosis of the image performed by the image diagnosis part.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on continuous paper, comprising:
- an image former that forms an image on the continuous paper;
- a conveyer that conveys the continuous paper in a forward direction that is a conveyance direction at a time of image formation and conveys the continuous paper to the image former;
- an image diagnosis part that detects abnormality of the image formed by the image former and performs diagnosis of a degree of the detected abnormality;
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- a hardware processor that switches whether to continue conveyance of the continuous paper in the forward direction according to a result of the diagnosis of the image performed by the image diagnosis part, wherein
- the conveyer is capable of performing conveyance in a direction reverse of the forward direction, and
- the hardware processor switches the conveyance of the continuous paper to either the conveyance in the forward direction or the conveyance in the reverse direction according to the result of the diagnosis of the image performed by the image diagnosis part.
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