Image forming apparatus and controlling device
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsGuodong WANG, Yusuke ONO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording medium and a controller that switches an operation state of the image forming portion between a first power mode in which the image forming portion operates normally and a second power mode in which the image forming portion operates with lower power consumption than when the image forming portion operates in the first power mode. The controller changes, depending on a type of a control performed by a user on the apparatus, a transition period after which the operation state is switched from the first power mode to the second power mode.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording medium;
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- a controller that switches an operation state of the image forming portion between a first power mode in which the image forming portion operates normally and a second power mode in which the image forming portion operates with lower power consumption than when the image forming portion operates in the first power mode,
- wherein the controller changes, depending on a type of a control performed by a user on the apparatus, a transition period after which the operation state is switched from the first power mode to the second power mode.
A controlling device, comprising:
- a setting portion that changes, depending on a type of a control performed by a user on an apparatus, a transition period after which an operation state of an image forming portion, which forms an image on a recording medium, is switched from a first power mode in which the image forming portion operates normally to a second power mode in which the image forming portion operates with lower power consumption than when the image forming portion operates in the first power mode;
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- a switching portion that switches the operation state of the image forming portion between the first power mode and the second power mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.