Image forming apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiyuki Sano, Masaaki Furukawa
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AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiyuki Sano, Masaaki Furukawa
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A sensor is located upstream of a conveyance roller in a sheet conveyance direction. A switch switches driving and stopping of a photosensitive drum. A controller performs a first mode process as a warm-up process of driving the conveyance roller and a fuser. The first mode process includes: driving the photosensitive drum for a particular time; in response to detecting a sheet within the particular time by the sensor, controlling the switch to continue driving the photosensitive drum after the particular time elapses and to discharge the detected sheet to a sheet discharge tray; and in response to not detecting the sheet within the particular time by the sensor, controlling the switch to stop driving the photosensitive drum at a time point when the particular time elapses, and driving the conveyance roller and the fuser to complete the warm-up process in a state where the photosensitive drum is stopped.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
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