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US 8,136,917 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisaki Sakurai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a liquid jetting head jetting a liquid to form an image; a recovery mechanism discharging the liquid in the liquid jetting head to an external part to recover jetting performance of the liquid jetting head; a controller controlling an operation of the recovery mechanism; and an information obtaining section obtaining predetermined information, wherein the controller controls the recovery mechanism according to the predetermined information obtained by the information obtaining section.
Claims37
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a liquid jetting head which jets a liquid to form an image;
- a recovery mechanism which recovers jetting performance of the liquid jetting head by discharging the liquid in the liquid jetting head to outside of the liquid jetting head;
- a controller which controls an operation of the recovery mechanism;
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- an information obtaining section which obtains an information about a usage of the image forming apparatus selected from the group consisting of a power on/off frequency of the image forming apparatus, a use frequency of the liquid, and a use frequency of a medium receiving the liquid jetted from the liquid jetting head;
- wherein the controller controls the recovery mechanism based on the information obtained by the information obtaining section.
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An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus including a liquid jetting head which jets a liquid to form an image and a recovery mechanism which recovers jetting performance of the liquid jetting head by discharging the liquid in the liquid jetting head to outside of the liquid jetting head;
- a controller which is connected to the image forming apparatus and which transmits, to the image forming apparatus, data with which the image forming apparatus forms the image;
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- an information obtaining section which obtains an information about a usage of the image forming apparatus selected from the group consisting of a power on/off frequency of the image forming apparatus, a use frequency of the liquid, and a use frequency of a medium receiving the liquid jetted from the liquid jetting head.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.