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US 2017/0102631 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi HIROTA, Taichi TAKEMURA, Tomohisa ITAGAKI
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Abstract
Temperature of a printing medium 110 is sufficiently decreased by stopping the printing medium 110 in a discharge path, conveying the printing medium at a low speed, switching a conveyance path, or the like. If the temperature of the printing medium 110 can be sufficiently decreased, the thermochromism phenomenon is suppressed. As a result, it is possible to provide an image forming apparatus capable of achieving highly accurate color matching and color stability.
Claims3
1-20. (canceled)
An image forming apparatus comprising;
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a printing medium;
- a fixing unit configured to fix the image on the printing medium;
- a conveyance unit configured to convey the printing medium along a conveyance path;
- a color measurement unit configured to measure, downstream of the fixing unit in a conveyance direction of the printing medium, a color of the image;
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- a controller configured to control a time until the color measurement unit measures the color of the image formed on the printing medium after the printing medium passes the fixing unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.