Image forming device
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsMasahiro Kamiya, Toshikazu Higashi, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Shigetaka Kato, Katsuhide Sakai
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Abstract
An image forming device includes: a sheet feeder that feeds a sheet; a controller that: discriminates a sheet type of the sheet, and receives a user input to specify a sheet type; and an image forming device that has two setting modes including an automatic discrimination mode in which an image is formed based on the discriminated sheet type and a user specified mode in which an image is formed based on the sheet type specified by the user input. The controller automatically switches one of the two setting modes to the other based on a defined condition.
Claims25
An image forming device comprising:
- a sheet feeder that feeds a sheet;
- a controller that:
- discriminates a sheet type of the sheet, and
- receives a user input to specify a sheet type;
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- an image forming device that has two setting modes including an automatic discrimination mode in which an image is formed based on the discriminated sheet type and a user specified mode in which an image is formed based on the sheet type specified by the user input, wherein
- the controller automatically switches one of the two setting modes to the other based on one or more defined conditions,
- the controller measures an elapsed time since a user operation is received,
- the defined conditions include that the elapsed time reaches a defined time, and
- upon determining that the elapsed time reaches the defined time, the controller switches the user specified mode to the automatic discrimination mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.