US 11,693,607 B2 · Recording material transport system, recording material transport apparatus, and image forming apparatus with stopped transport notification

Abstract

A recording material transport system includes a first transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a recording material and a notification unit that notifies a user about how to deal with a recording material whose transport has been stopped; and a second transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a recording material transported from the first transport apparatus and a notification unit that notifies the user about how to deal with a recording material whose transport has been stopped, wherein in a case where a recording material has stopped in both of the first and second transport apparatus, the notification unit of the first transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the recording material in the first transport apparatus, and the notification unit of the second transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the recording material in the second transport apparatus.

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Dependent claims

A recording material transport system comprising:

a first transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a first recording material and a notification unit that notifies a user about how to deal with the first recording material whose transport by the transport unit has been stopped;
and
a second transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports the first recording material transported from the first transport apparatus and a notification unit that notifies the user about how to deal with the first recording material whose transport by the transport unit has been stopped,
wherein in response to determining that the first recording material has stopped in the first transport apparatus and the same first recording material has stopped in the second transport apparatus at the same time, the notification unit of the first transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the first recording material in the first transport apparatus, and the notification unit of the second transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the first recording material in the second transport apparatus.

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A recording material transport apparatus that is connectable to another apparatus and executes a job together with the other apparatus in a case where the recording material transport apparatus is connected to the other apparatus, the recording material transport apparatus comprising:

a transport unit that transports a first recording material transported from the other apparatus or transports the first recording material to be fed to the other apparatus;
and
a notification unit that notifies a user about how to deal with the first recording material whose transport by the transport unit has been stopped,
wherein in response to determining that the first recording material has stopped in the other apparatus and the same first recording material has stopped in the recording material transport apparatus at the same time, the notification unit notifies a user about how to deal with the first recording material in the recording material transport apparatus but does not notify the user about how to deal with the first recording material in the other apparatus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Recording material transport system, recording material transport apparatus, and image forming apparatus with stopped transport notification

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Recording material transport system, recording material transport apparatus, and image forming apparatus with stopped transport notification

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