Image forming apparatus and control method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSetsuo Takada
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a printer configured to form an image on a sheet at a carrying speed, a first reading/writing unit configured read tag information stored in a wireless tag disposed on the sheet and to write tag information to the wireless tag, a reading/writing control unit configured to control the first reading/writing unit to read tag information stored in the wireless tag and to write tag information to the wireless tag, and a printer control unit configured to control the carrying speed of the sheet according to a total number of wireless tags disposed on the sheet.
Claims20
A data read/write apparatus for a wireless tag, comprising:
- a toner image carrier configured to carry a toner image;
- a sheet conveyer configured to convey a sheet;
- a transfer roller configured to transfer the toner image from the toner image carrier to the sheet;
- a tag reader/writer configured to read tag information stored in a wireless tag on the sheet and to write tag information to the wireless tag;
- and
- a controller configured to control the tag reader/writer to read tag information stored in the wireless tag, write tag information to the wireless tag, and control a rotation speed of the transfer roller according to a total number of wireless tags on the sheet.
A method comprising:
- forming a toner image;
- controlling a rotation speed of a transfer roller according to a total number of wireless tags on a sheet;
- conveying the sheet;
- transferring the toner image to the sheet;
- reading tag information stored in a wireless tag on the sheet;
- and
- writing tag information to the wireless tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.