Recording material conveyance apparatus, image forming system, recording material conveyance method, and storage medium

A recording material conveyance apparatus comprising:

• a hardware processor that
• (i) is capable of performing switching control of, in response to, among a plurality of recording material housing sections that house recording materials, a first recording material housing section becoming out of recording material while a recording material fed from the first recording material housing section is being conveyed, selecting a second recording material housing section to cause a recording material housed in the second recording material housing section to be conveyed, and
• (ii) in the switching control, selects the second recording material housing section based on a physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections;
• and
• a measurement section that measures the physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections, the physical property value corresponding to a physical property;
• wherein the hardware processor selects the second recording material housing section based on a first physical property value as the physical property value of the recording material of the first recording material housing section and a second physical property value as the physical property value of the recording material of the second recording material housing section;
• and
• wherein the first physical property value is a physical property value stored in advance in a storage section in association with the first recording material housing section.

A recording material conveyance method comprising:

• performing switching control of, in response to, among a plurality of recording material housing sections that house recording materials, a first recording material housing section becoming out of recording material while a recording material fed from the first recording material housing section is being conveyed, selecting a second recording material housing section to cause a recording material housed in the second recording material housing section to be conveyed;
• and
• measuring a physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections, the physical property value corresponding to a physical property,
• wherein the switching control includes selecting the second recording material housing section based on the measured physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections;
• wherein the physical property value includes a physical property value corresponding to the physical property that varies depending on an environment of the recording materials.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a recording material conveyance apparatus to:

• perform switching control of, in response to, among a plurality of recording material housing sections that house recording materials, a first recording material housing section becoming out of recording material while a recording material fed from the first recording material housing section is being conveyed, selecting a second recording material housing section to cause a recording material housed in the second recording material housing section to be conveyed;
• and
• measure a physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections, the physical property value corresponding to a physical property,
• wherein the switching control includes selecting the second recording material housing section based on the measured physical property value of each of the recording materials of the plurality of recording material housing sections;
• wherein the physical property value includes a physical property value corresponding to the physical property that varies depending on an environment of the recording materials.