Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKuniyasu Kimura, Eiichi Motoyama, Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Takahiko Yamaoka, Yuichi Yamamoto
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus for carrying out an image forming process with a detachably mountable image forming unit mounted thereon, when the mounting of the image forming unit has been detected, whether the mounted image forming unit is a new one is discriminated. Then, unit control information held by an information holding portion for holding unit control information corresponding to the image forming unit is updated on the basis of the results of discrimination at the last time and this time. By such a construction, image formation becomes executable on the mounted image forming unit always in an optimized state.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus, which carries out an image forming process with a detachably mountable image forming unit mounted thereon, said image forming apparatus comprising:
- a mount detecting portion, which detects that the image forming unit has been mounted;
- a discriminating portion, which discriminates, when a mounting of the image forming unit has been detected by said mount detecting portion, whether the mounted image forming unit is a new one;
- an information holding portion, which holds unit control information corresponding to the image forming unit;
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- an information updating portion, which updates the unit control information held by said information holding portion, based on discrimination results at a last time and this time by said discriminating portion.
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