Image forming apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuichiro Fujimoto, Shun-ichi Ebihara
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Abstract
An image forming system includes a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus connected with the first image forming apparatus by a network line. When a second stacking portion of the second image forming apparatus is associated with a first stacking portion of the first image forming apparatus by a setting portion, an arithmetic portion acquires information related to the characteristic of a second recording medium stacked by the second stacking portion via the network line and obtains a degree of deterioration of a feeding rotatable member of the first image forming apparatus based on the acquired information related to the characteristic of the second recording medium.
Claims16
An image forming system comprising:
- a first image forming apparatus including
- a first stacking portion configured to stack a first recording medium,
- a feeding rotatable member configured to feed the first feeding medium,
- an arithmetic portion configured to obtain a degree of deterioration of said feeding rotatable member, and
- a setting portion configured to set so as to associate the other stacking portion with said first stacking portion;
- a second image forming apparatus different from said first image forming apparatus, said second image forming apparatus including
- a second stacking portion configured to stack a second recording medium, and
- a detecting portion configured to detect a characteristics of the second recording medium;
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- a network line configured to connect said first image forming apparatus and said second image forming apparatus,
- wherein when said second stacking portion is associated with said first stacking portion by said setting portion, said arithmetic portion acquires information related to the characteristic of the second recording medium detected by said detecting portion via said network line and obtains the degree of deterioration of said feeding rotatable member based on the acquired information related to the characteristic of the second recording medium.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first stacking portion configured to stack a first recording medium,
- a feeding rotatable member configured to feed the first feeding medium,
- an arithmetic portion configured to obtain a degree of deterioration of said feeding rotatable member, and
- a setting portion configured to set so as to associate the other stacking portion with said first stacking portion,
- wherein said image forming apparatus is connected to the other image forming apparatus via a network line, said the other image forming apparatus including a second stacking portion configured to stack a second recording medium and a detecting portion configured to detect a characteristic of the second recording medium,
- wherein when said second stacking portion is associated with said first stacking portion by said setting portion, said arithmetic portion acquires information related to the characteristic of the second recording medium detected by said detecting portion via said network line and obtains the degree of deterioration of said feeding rotatable member based on the acquired information related to the characteristic of the second recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.