Image forming apparatus having an image forming part that can be set in a standby state in response to image forming operation to be performed subsequently
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorShigeyuki Ishii
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Abstract
An image forming part performs an image forming operation. A higher-order component sends an image forming request to perform the image forming operation of said image forming part. A control part controls the image forming part based on the image forming request received from the higher-order component. The control part controls the image forming part to perform a deactivation standby operation to stand by for a predetermined time while the image forming part is continuously set in an operating state after the image forming part completes the image forming operation, without querying the higher-order component about an image forming operation to be performed subsequently.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming part that performs an image forming operation;
- a higher-order component that sends an image forming request to perform the image forming operation of said image forming part;
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- a control part that controls said image forming part based on the image forming request received from said higher-order component,
- wherein said control part controls said image forming part to perform a deactivation standby operation to stand by for a predetermined time while said image forming part is continuously set in an operating state after said image forming part completed the image forming operation, without querying said higher-order component about an image forming operation to be performed subsequently.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.