Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShotaro Ishihara
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a sheet, a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image on the sheet, a double-sided conveyance path along which the sheet is conveyed for double-sided printing, and a control unit configured to control conveyance of the sheet, allowing the sheet to be stopped at a first standby position which is more downstream than the fixing unit in a sheet conveyance direction on the double-sided conveyance path and a second standby position which is more downstream than the first standby position, and changing stopping time for which the sheet is stopped at the first standby position and stopping time for which the sheet is stopped at the second standby position according to a material of the sheet.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a sheet;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image formed by the image forming unit on the sheet;
- a double-sided conveyance path along which the sheet is conveyed to form, after a toner image is fixed to one face of the sheet by the fixing unit, a toner image on the other face of the sheet;
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- a control unit configured to control conveyance of the sheet, allowing the sheet to be stopped at a first standby position which is more downstream than the fixing unit in a sheet conveyance direction on the double-sided conveyance path and at a second standby position which is more downstream than the first standby position, and changing stopping time for which the sheet is stopped at the first standby position and stopping time for which the sheet is stopped at the second standby position according to a material of the sheet.
The image forming apparatus according to claim -9, wherein the control unit starts an operation of the first conveyance unit after the stopping time elapses at the first standby position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.