Medium transport apparatus, image forming apparatus, method for determining splice on medium and computer readable medium
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki AOKI
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Abstract
A medium transport apparatus includes: a transport unit transporting a belt-shaped medium having plural marks formed in line at predetermined intervals in a transport direction; a detection unit detecting the marks on the medium; and a determining unit determining that a splice exists at a position on the medium if an interval of the marks detected from the medium by the detection unit differs from the predetermined intervals, the position being identified by the marks having the interval different from the predetermined intervals.
Claims12
A medium transport apparatus comprising:
- a transport unit transporting a belt-shaped medium having a plurality of marks formed in line at predetermined intervals in a transport direction;
- a detection unit detecting the marks on the medium;
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- a determining unit determining that a splice exists at a position on the medium if an interval of the marks detected from the medium by the detection unit differs from the predetermined intervals, the position being identified by the marks having the interval different from the predetermined intervals.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a transport unit transporting a connective belt-shaped medium having belt-shaped media connected with splices, the belt-shaped media each having a plurality of marks formed in line at predetermined intervals in a transport direction;
- a detection unit detecting the marks on the connective belt-shaped medium;
- an image forming unit forming an image on the connective belt-shaped medium being transported;
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- an execution unit executing splice processing on a position on the connective belt-shaped medium if an interval of the marks detected from the connective belt-shaped medium by the detection unit differs from the predetermined intervals, the position being identified by the marks having the interval different from the predetermined intervals, the splice processing being different from ordinary image formation.
A method for determining a splice on a medium comprising:
- transporting a belt-shaped medium having a plurality of marks formed in line at predetermined intervals in a transport direction;
- detecting the marks on the medium;
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- determining that a splice exists at a position on the medium if an interval of the marks detected from the medium differs from the predetermined intervals, the position being identified by the marks having the interval different from the predetermined intervals.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process for splice processing, the process comprising:
- transporting a connective belt-shaped medium having belt-shaped media connected with splices, the belt-shaped media each having a plurality of marks formed in line at predetermined intervals in a transport direction;
- detecting the marks on the connective belt-shaped medium;
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- executing splice processing on a position on the connective belt-shaped medium if an interval of the marks detected from the connective belt-shaped medium by the step of detecting differs from the predetermined intervals, the position being identified by the marks having the interval different from the predetermined intervals, the splice processing being different from ordinary processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.