Image formation apparatus, an image formation method, an image formation program, and a computer-readable recording medium
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorFuminori Tsuchiya
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Abstract
An image formation apparatus, an image formation method, an image formation program, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided, a rotation of the developer supply roller is controlled in order to prevent plugging of the developer supply roller based on quality information and environmental information.
Claims11
An image formation apparatus wherein a developer supply roller supplies a developer held in a developer holder to a development unit, the image formation apparatus comprising:
- a quality information acquiring unit for acquiring quality information chosen by a user out of a plurality of predefined quality information sets about quality of image formation;
- an environmental information acquiring unit for acquiring environmental information about a present operational environment of the image formation out of a plurality of predefined environmental information sets;
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- a controlling unit, wherein the controlling unit determines a plugging preventative operation from the quality information acquired via the quality information acquiring unit and the environmental information acquired via the environmental information acquiring unit, and controls rotation of the developer supply roller according to the determined plugging preventative operation, and
- wherein the developer supply roller is the most upstream roller with respect to a developer feeding direction from the developer holder.
An the image formation method of an image formation apparatus wherein a developer supply roller supplies a developer held in a developer holder to a development unit, the image formation method comprising:
- a quality information acquisition step of acquiring quality information chosen by a user out of a plurality of predefined quality information sets about quality of image formation;
- an environmental information acquisition step of acquiring environmental information about a present operational environment of the image formation out of a plurality of predefined environmental information sets;
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- a control step of determining, by a controlling unit of the image formation apparatus, a plugging preventative operation from the quality information acquired in the quality information acquisition step and the environmental information acquired in the environmental information acquisition step, and controlling, by the controlling unit of the image formation apparatus, rotation of the developer supply roller according to the determined plugging preventative operation, and
- wherein the developer supply roller is the most upstream roller with respect to a developer feeding direction from the developer holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.