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US 8,265,541 B2Granted
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system which corrects a curl
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorMasashi Kougami
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus including: a humidifier that humidifies a sheet; a curl correcting section that corrects a curl by applying mechanical bending force on a sheet; and a control section that causes humidification by the humidifier and curl correction by the curl correcting section to be possible for a prescribed sheet, and causes either one of humidification by the humidifier and curl correction by the curl correcting section to be possible for sheets other than the prescribed sheet.
Claims19
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet;
- a humidifying section which humidifies the sheet;
- a curl correcting section which corrects a curl by applying a mechanical bending force to the sheet;
- an input section capable of inputting information relating to the sheet, setting whether or not the humidifying section humidifies the sheet, and setting whether or not the curl correcting section applies the curl correction to the sheet;
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- a control section which controls the humidifying section, the curl correcting section, and the input section,
- wherein the control section is configured to (i) determine whether the sheet meets a predetermined condition based upon the input information relating to the sheet, (ii) control the input section to be capable of setting both the humidifying section to humidify the sheet and the curl correction section to apply the curl correction to the sheet in response to the sheet meeting the predetermined condition, (iii) control the input section to only be capable of setting one of the humidifying section to humidify the sheet and the curl correcting section to apply the curl correction to the sheet in response to the sheet not meeting the predetermined condition, and (iv) control at least one of the humidifying section and the curl correcting section to perform at least one of the humidification and the curl correction based on the setting input by the input section.
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An image forming apparatus that is connectable to a sheet processing apparatus in which at least one of humidification and curl correction is performed on a sheet, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an operation section which is operable to set information relating to a sheet, set whether or not the humidifying section humidifies the sheet, and set whether or not the curl correcting section applies the curl correction to the sheet;
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- a control section that controls the operation section;
- wherein the control section is configured to (i) determine whether the sheet meets a predetermined condition based on the set information relating to the sheet, (ii) control the operation section to be operable to set both the humidifying section to humidify the sheet and the curl correction section to apply the curl correction to the sheet in response to the sheet meeting the predetermined condition, (iii) control the operation section to only be operable to set one of the humidifying section to humidify the sheet and the curl correcting section to apply the curl correction to the sheet in response to the sheet not meeting the predetermined condition.
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A sheet processing apparatus that is connectable to an image forming apparatus, the sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- a humidifying section which humidifies a sheet;
- a curl correcting section which corrects a curl by applying mechanical bending force to the sheet;
- a storage section which stores a control flow for enabling setting whether or not the humidifying section humidifies the sheet and setting whether or not the curl correcting section applies the curl correction to the sheet, said control flow being configured to cause the image forming apparatus to (i) determine whether the sheet meets a predetermined condition based upon input information relating to the sheet inputted by an input section of the image forming apparatus, (ii) control the input section to be capable of setting both the humidifying section to humidify the sheet and the curl correction section to apply the curl correction to the sheet in response to the sheet meeting the predetermined condition, and (iii) control the input section to only be capable of setting one of the humidifying section to humidify the sheet and the curl correcting section to apply the curl correction to the sheet in response to the sheet not meeting the predetermined condition;
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- a control section which controls the humidifying section, the curl correcting section, and the storage section;
- wherein the control section is configured to (i) read the control flow from the storage section and transmit the control flow to the image forming apparatus when the sheet processing apparatus is connected to the image forming apparatus, (ii) receive from the image forming apparatus the setting for the humidifying section and the curl correcting section from the image forming apparatus, which is set in accordance with the control flow according to the condition of the sheet, (iii) control the humidifying section and the curl correcting section to perform the humidification and the curl correction on a sheet which meets a predetermined condition, based on the received setting, and (iv) control the humidifying section and the curl correcting section to perform only one of the humidification and the curl correction on a sheet which does not meet the predetermined condition, based on the received setting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.