Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorMasato KIMURA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image including toner; a driver that rotates the image carrier; a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier and removes toner remaining on the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver; and a hardware processor that evaluates a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover, determines a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration, and controls the driver to cause the removal operation to be executed the number of times of execution.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier that carries a toner image including toner;
- a driver that rotates the image carrier;
- a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier and removes toner remaining on the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver;
- and
- a hardware processor that evaluates a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover,
- determines a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration, and
- controls the driver to cause the removal operation to be executed the number of times of execution.
An image forming method comprising:
- carrying a toner image including toner by an image carrier;
- rotating tile image carrier by a driver;
- removing toner remaining on the image carrier by a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver;
- evaluating a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover;
- determining a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration;
- and
- executing, by the driver, the removal operation the number of times of execution determined.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable image forming program executed by a computer that controls an image forming apparatus, the image forming program causing the computer to execute:
- carrying a toner image including toner by an image carrier;
- rotating the image carrier by a driver;
- removing toner remaining on the image carrier by a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver;
- evaluating a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover;
- determining a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration;
- and
- executing, by the driver, the removal operation the number of times of execution determined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.