Image generating device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYuichi Maruyama, Junji Nakai, Sakae Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Gotoh, Shoji Hayashi
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Abstract
An image generating device is provided with a control mechanism which controls an exit paper delivery speed after an image has been fixed to a form. The exit paper delivery speed is changed depending on information detected about the process of generating the image to prevent the form from being delivered with wrinkles. The information detected includes size of paper intervals between forms, length of forms, and whether the image generating process is a repeat copying or continuous form feeding process.
Claims30
A method for generating and delivering an image on a form wrinkle-free, comprising the steps of:
- feeding a form downstream in a paper delivery direction from a first location to a second location;
- generating an image on the form at the second location;
- fixing the image to the form;
- delivering the form further downstream in the paper delivery direction from the second location to a third location;
- detecting information about the step of generating the image;
- controlling an initial speed of the delivery step to be higher than an entry paper delivery speed to the second location at a start of the step of generating the image;
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- controlling an exit paper delivery speed using the information which was detected.
A device for generating and delivering an image on a form wrinkle-free, comprising:
- means for feeding a form downstream in a paper delivery direction from a first location to a second location;
- means for generating an image on the form at the second location;
- means for fixing the image to the form;
- means for delivering the form further downstream in the paper delivery direction from the second location to a third location;
- means for setting a number of forms on which the image is generated;
- means for detecting information about a step of generating the image;
- means for controlling an initial speed of the delivery step to be higher than an entry paper delivery speed to the second location at a start of the step of generating the image;
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- means for controlling an exit paper delivery speed using the information which was detected.
An image generating device which delivers a form wrinkle-free, comprising:
- a feeding section which feeds a form downstream in a paper delivery direction from a first location to a second location;
- a generating device which generates an image on the form at the second location;
- a fixing device which fixes the image to the form;
- a delivering section which delivers the form further downstream in the paper delivery direction from the second location to a third location;
- a detecting device which detects information about a step of generating the image;
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- a controlling device which controls an exit paper delivery speed from the second location using the information which was detected, in which said exit paper delivery speed is initialized to be higher than an entry paper delivery speed to the second location at a start of the step of generating the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.