Back to results
US 2014/0233967 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus, system and method
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasakazu Suzuki
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasakazu Suzuki
Estimating the term…
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of reducing possibility that small symbols and characters become invisible without impairing user's convenience even in the case of using a nongenuine replacement part. An image forming apparatus (100) is provided with: an image forming portion (103) for forming an image; a nongenuine product judging portion (101a) for judging whether or not a replacement part of the image forming portion (103) is a nongenuine product; an operation receiving portion (for example, an operating panel (102)) for receiving user operation including setting operation of an image forming condition; and a control portion (101) for controlling image formation of the image forming portion (103) based on the image forming condition set from the operation receiving portion. In the image forming apparatus (100), in a case where the replacement part of the image forming portion (103) is judged as a nongenuine product by the nongenuine product judging portion (101a), the control portion (101) prohibits setting operation concerning reduced printing among the setting operations of image forming conditions.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming system in which an image forming apparatus having an image forming portion for forming an image and a nongenuine product judging portion for judging whether or not a replacement part of the image forming portion is a nongenuine product, and an information processing apparatus in which a printer driver for the image forming apparatus is installed are connected via a network, wherein
An image forming method by means of an image forming apparatus comprising an image forming portion for forming an image, a control portion for controlling image formation of the image forming portion based on an image forming condition set through an operation receiving portion, or a printer driver installed in an information processing apparatus which is connected to the image forming apparatus via the network, and a non-genuine product judging portion for judging whether or not a replacement part of the image forming portion is a non-genuine product, wherein the image forming method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.