Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorYuhei CHIWATA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided which can effectively adapt stacked sheets of paper to the surrounding environment. A controller controls a moving member to move a position at which air is blown to an end portion of a sheet bundle in up and down direction of sheets of paper being stacked. The driving of an air blower is controlled so that the air volume when air is blown toward the lower-side end portion of the sheet bundle by the air blower is larger than the air volume when air is blown toward the upper-side end portion of the sheet bundle. By moving the position at which air is blown by the air blower in the up and down direction, it is possible to effectively adapt the stacked sheet bundle to the surrounding environment, compared with a case where air is simultaneously blown to the entire sheet bundle.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body that ejects ink droplets onto a sheet of paper to form an image;
- and
- a seasoning device that is disposed in a discharge unit to which the sheet of paper having an image formed thereon by the image forming apparatus main body is discharged,
- wherein the seasoning device includes
- a separation section that separates stacked sheets of paper on which images are formed into a sheet bundle,
- an air blowing member that blows air toward an end portion of the sheet bundle separated by the separation section, and
- a moving member that moves a position at which the air is blown to the end portion of the sheet bundle by the air blowing member in an up and down direction in which the sheets of paper are stacked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.