Image forming apparatus and control method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHirotaka Matsumoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixing section that fixes a toner image formed on a sheet. A controller controls a preliminary rotation of the fixing section after execution of a first image forming job and before execution of a second image forming job. Conditions for the preliminary rotation include types of sheets used in the first image forming job and the second image forming job, respectively, and a number of sheets used in executing the first image forming job.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a fixing section configured to fix a toner image to a sheet;
- and
- a controller configured to set a preliminary rotation of the fixing section after execution of a first image forming job and before execution of a second image forming job based on a coating type of a sheet in the first image forming job and a coating type of a sheet in the second image forming job.
A method of controlling a fixing section for fixing a toner image to a sheet, the method comprising:
- executing a first image forming job;
- determining a coating type of a sheet in the first image forming job;
- determining a coating type of a sheet in a second image forming job to be executed after the first image forming job;
- setting a preliminary rotation of the fixing section after the first image forming job but before the second image forming job based on the coating type of the sheet in the first image forming job and the coating type of sheet in the second image forming job;
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- executing the second image forming job after the setting of the preliminary rotation.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a fixing section configured to fix a toner image to a sheet;
- a memory storing parameters for a preliminary rotation process in correlation with conditions including a coating type of a sheet used in a first image forming job and a coating type of a sheet used in a second image forming job after the first image forming job;
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- a controller configured to control the preliminary rotation before the second image forming job but after the first image forming job by reference to the parameters stored in the memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.