US 2020/0150913 A1Published application

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsRyo Suzuki, Munehito Kurata, Teruhiko Namiki, Yasuhisa Matsumoto

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Abstract

A control unit of the invention compares printing setting suitable for a determined type of a recording material and printing setting of the recording material input by a user, and in a case where a difference between the printing setting suitable for the determined type of the recording material and the printing setting of the recording material input by the user falls in a predetermined range, the control unit performs a printing operation in accordance with the printing setting of the recording material input by the user, and in a case where the difference is greater than the predetermined range, the control unit performs the printing operation by changing the printing setting of the recording material input by the user, which is used when the difference is smaller than the predetermined range.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording material;
a fixing unit configured to fix the image to the recording material, the fixing unit includes a heater for heating the toner image;
a recording material type detection unit configured to detect a type of the recording material;
a printing setting input unit configured to enable a user to input a printing setting of the recording material;
and
a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus,
wherein in a case where a difference between the printing setting suitable for the type of the recording material detected by the recording material type detection unit and the printing setting of the recording material input by the user falls in a predetermined range, the control unit performs a printing operation in accordance with the printing setting of the recording material input by the user, and
wherein in a case where the difference falls outside the predetermined range, the control unit performs the printing operation by changing the printing setting of the recording material input by the user.

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An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording material;
a fixing unit configured to fix the image to the recording material, the fixing unit includes a heater for heating the toner image;
a recording material type detection unit configured to detect a type of the recording material;
a recording material type selecting unit configured to enable a user to select a type of the recording material;
and
a control unit configured to control the image forming apparatus,
wherein in a case where a difference between a printing setting suitable for the type of the recording material detected by the recording material type detection unit and the printing setting suitable for the type of the recording material selected by the user falls in a predetermined range, the control unit performs a printing operation in accordance with the printing setting suitable for the type of the recording material selected by the user, and
wherein in a case where the difference falls outside the predetermined range, the control unit performs the printing operation by changing the printing setting suitable for the type of the recording material selected by the user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/746,477Filed 17 Jan 2020
Priority: JP 2017-18118921 Sep 2017
Published: 14 May 2020
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Classification18 codes

G06F 3/1255
Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client: settings incompatibility, e.g. constraints, user requirements vs. device…
B65H 7/14
By feelers or detectors: by photoelectric feelers or detectors
G03G 15/2028
Structural details of the fixing unit in general, e.g. cooling means, heat shielding means: with means for handling the copy material in the…
G03G 15/2046
With means for controlling the fixing temperature: specially for the influence of heat loss, e.g. due to the contact with the copy material or…

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Application16/135,807Continuation · filed 19 Sep 2018
Application16/746,477Continuation
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