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US 12,050,420 B2Granted
Image forming system that detects characteristics of recording material
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorRyo Mitsuda
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Abstract
An image forming system includes: a conveyor that conveys a recording material along a conveyance path; a detector that is disposed on the conveyance path and detects a characteristic of the recording material; a fixer that fixes a toner image formed on the recording material; and a hardware processor that: causes the detector to detect the characteristic during a warm-up of the fixer with respect to an image forming job, and based on the characteristic, sets an image forming condition in the image forming job.
Claims16
An image forming system comprising:
- a conveyor that conveys a recording material along a conveyance path;
- a detector that is disposed on the conveyance path and detects a characteristic of the recording material;
- a fixer that fixes a toner image formed on the recording material;
- and
- a hardware processor that:
- causes the detector to detect the characteristic during a warm-up of the fixer with respect to an image forming job,
- based on the characteristic detected by the detector, sets an image forming condition in the image forming job, and
- stores a data table indicating a history of the image forming condition corresponding to the characteristic detected during the warm-up, and
- in a case that the detector cannot detect the characteristic during the warm-up, reads out the history from the data table and sets the image forming condition based on the history.
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An image forming system comprising:
- a conveyor that conveys a recording material along a conveyance path;
- a detector that is disposed on the conveyance path and detects a characteristic of the recording material;
- a fixer that fixes a toner image formed on the recording material;
- and
- a hardware processor that:
- causes the detector to detect the characteristic during a warm-up of the fixer with respect to an image forming job,
- based on the characteristic, sets an image forming condition in the image forming job, and
- controls, based on a temperature of the fixer within a predetermined time period from a start of the warm-up, a rising rate of the temperature of the fixer within a time period in which the detector detects the characteristic during the warm-up.
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An image forming system comprising:
- a conveyor that conveys a recording material along a conveyance path;
- a detector that is disposed on the conveyance path and detects a characteristic of the recording material;
- a fixer that fixes a toner image formed on the recording material;
- and
- a hardware processor that:
- causes the detector to detect the characteristic during a warm-up of the fixer with respect to an image forming job,
- based on the characteristic, sets an image forming condition in the image forming job, and
- determines, based on a comparison result between a predetermined temperature threshold and the temperature of the fixer within a predetermined time period from a start of the warm-up, whether to stop or convey the recording material in a time period in which the detector detects the characteristic.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.