Image forming apparatus, a control method and a recording medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorNagatoshi KAWA
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Abstract
The image forming apparatus includes an image forming part configured to form an image on a sheet; a post-processing part configured to process a sheet bundle, the sheet bundle including sheets on which images are formed by the image forming part; an image quality maintaining/adjusting part configured to maintain quality of the image formed by the image forming part; a sheet spacing changing part configured to increase a spacing between a final sheet of the sheet bundle and a next sheet; and an operation controlling part configured to activate the operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part such that an operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part is completed within the spacing increased by the sheet spacing changing part.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming part configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a post-processing part configured to process a sheet bundle, the sheet bundle including sheets on which images are formed by the image forming part;
- an image quality maintaining/adjusting part configured to maintain quality of the image formed by the image forming part;
- a sheet spacing changing part configured to increase a spacing between a final sheet of the sheet bundle and a next sheet;
- and
- an operation controlling part configured to activate an operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part such that the operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part is completed within the spacing increased by the sheet spacing changing part.
A control method in an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including:
- an image forming part configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a post-processing part configured to process a sheet bundle, the sheet bundle including sheets on which images are formed by the image forming part;
- and an image quality maintaining/adjusting part configured to maintain quality of the image formed by the image forming part, the control method comprising:
- increasing a spacing between a final sheet of the sheet bundle and a next sheet;
- and
- activating the operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part such that the operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part is completed within the increased spacing.
A computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed by a computer is stored to control an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including an image forming part configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a post-processing part configured to process a sheet bundle, the sheet bundle including sheets on which images are formed by the image forming part;
- and an image quality maintaining/adjusting part configured to maintain quality of the image formed by the image forming part,
- wherein the program causes the computer to execute a process of:
- increasing a spacing between a final sheet of the sheet bundle and a next sheet;
- and
- activating an operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part such that the operation of the image quality maintaining/adjusting part is completed within the increased spacing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.