Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsKozo TAO, Daiki SONE
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus (1) includes an image forming section (6), a plurality of recording paper trays (7a to 7n), storage (5), and a paper feed stage selecting section (12). The image forming section (6) performs advanced printing based on a paper profile. The paper feed stage selecting section (12) selects a recording paper tray (7) from the recording paper trays (7a to 7n) from which recording paper is to be fed to the image forming section (6) based on a printing instruction. When a specific paper profile is not associated with the selected recording paper tray (7), the paper feed stage selecting section (12) notifies the image forming section (6) of a manual setting and causes the image forming section (6) to perform simple printing.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus which performs advanced printing in which printing conditions are optimized according to a type of recording paper based on a paper profile as an attribute value group into which attribute values of recording paper necessary for printing are collected, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming section configured to perform the advanced printing based on the paper profile;
- a plurality of recording paper trays each of which houses recording paper to be fed to the image forming section;
- storage which stores therein paper feed stage setting information in which either a specific paper profile or a manual setting as an attribute value group manually set by a user is associated with each of the recording paper trays;
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- a paper feed stage selecting section configured to select a recording paper tray from the recording paper trays from which the recording paper is to be fed to the image forming section based on a printing instruction, wherein
- by referring to the paper feed stage setting information, the paper feed stage selecting section notifies the image forming section of the specific paper profile associated with the selected recording paper tray and causes the image forming section to perform the advanced printing, or notifies, when the specific paper profile is not associated with the selected recording paper tray, the image forming section of the manual setting and causes the image forming section to perform simple printing.
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