Image forming system, image forming apparatus and method for setting printing function
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Hanano, Toru Yasui, Tetsuji Yamaguchi
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Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus, and a toner container mountable to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a control section, and an information acquisition section which acquires the toner-quality information about a toner container which is demountably mounted thereto. The control section is operable, based on the toner-quality information acquired by the information acquisition section, to identify the quality of the toner contained in the toner container and set a printing function based on the identified toner quality.
Claims7
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus;
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- a toner container mountable to the image forming apparatus, the toner container including an information providing section which provides toner-quality information indicative of quality of a toner contained in the toner container, to the image forming apparatus,
- the image forming apparatus includes:
- a toner-container mounting section which allows the toner container to be demountably mounted thereon;
- an information acquisition section which acquires the toner-quality information about the toner contained in the toner container, from the information providing section of the toner container mounted on the toner-container mounting section;
- a printing-data producing section which produces printing data;
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- a control section which controls respective operations of the information acquisition section and the printing-data producing section, the control section being operable, based on the toner-quality information acquired by the information acquisition section, to identify the quality of the toner contained in the toner container and set a printing function based on the identified toner quality, to the printing-data producing section.
An image forming apparatus designed to allow a toner container including an information providing section which provides toner-quality information indicative of quality of a toner contained in the toner container, to be mounted thereto, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a toner-container mounting section which allows the toner container to be demountably mounted thereon;
- an information acquisition section which acquires the toner-quality information about the toner contained in the toner container, from the information providing section of the toner container mounted on the toner-container mounting section;
- a printing-data producing section which produces printing data;
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- a control section which controls respective operations of the information acquisition section and the printing-data producing section, the control section being operable, based on the toner-quality information acquired by the information acquisition section, to identify the quality of the toner contained in the toner container and set a printing function based on the identified toner quality, to the printing-data producing section.
A method for setting a printing function for an image forming system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) acquiring toner-quality information indicative of quality of a toner contained in a toner container which is mounted to an image forming apparatus;
- (b) identifying the quality of the toner contained in the toner container, based on the toner-quality information acquired in step (a), and setting a printing function based on the identified toner quality;
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- (c) performing a printing job according to the printing function set in step (b).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.