Image forming system and printing method
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorMitsunori NAKAMURA
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Abstract
An image forming system includes: a reader including a reading sensor that optically reads a sheet conveyed through a conveyance path; and a hardware processor that controls the reader, in which the reader is able to execute a plurality of reading modes including at least a first reading mode and a second reading mode different from the first reading mode, and reads the sheet in any one of the reading modes selected according to a print setting, and the hardware processor varies an image formation timing of forming an image on the sheet by an image former between when switching of the reading modes is performed and when the switching of the reading modes is not performed.
Claims15
An image forming system comprising:
- a sheet feeder that feeds a sheet;
- a conveyor that conveys the sheet through a conveyance path;
- a reader including a reading sensor that optically reads the sheet conveyed through the conveyance path;
- an image former that forms an image on the conveyed sheet at a downstream side of the reader in the conveyance path;
- and
- a hardware processor, wherein
- the reader is able to execute a plurality of reading modes including at least a first reading mode and a second reading mode different from the first reading mode, and reads the sheet in any one of the reading modes selected according to a print setting, and
- the hardware processor varies an image formation timing of forming an image on the sheet by the image former between when switching of the reading modes is performed and when the switching of the reading modes is not performed.
A printing method executed in an image forming system including
- a sheet feeder that feeds a sheet,
- a conveyor that conveys the sheet through a conveyance path,
- a reader including a reading sensor that optically reads the sheet conveyed through the conveyance path, and
- an image former that forms an image on the conveyed sheet at a downstream side of the reader in the conveyance path,
- the reader being able to execute a plurality of reading modes including at least a first reading mode and a second reading mode different from the first reading mode, the printing method comprising:
- a step (a) of selecting any one of the reading modes according to a print setting;
- a step (b) of reading the sheet in the selected reading mode;
- a step (c) of varying an image formation timing of forming an image on the sheet by the image former between when the reading modes are switched and when the reading modes are not switched;
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- a step (d) of forming an image on the sheet at the image formation timing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.