Image forming apparatus and image forming system with a quota management function
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Sato
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Abstract
In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section configured to form an image on the surface of a medium with a recording material the color of which cannot be erased by heating; a heating section configured to heat the medium to fix the image; and a control section configured to determine whether or not an executed job is a quota subtraction target job or a quota addition target job, calculate a corresponding subtraction quota when the job is a quota subtraction target job or a corresponding addition quota when the job is a quota addition target job, and update the current quota based on the subtraction quota and the addition quota.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming section configured to form an image on a surface of a medium with a recording material the color of which cannot be erased by heating;
- a heating section configured to heat the medium to fix the image;
- a controller configured to:
- determine whether a completed job is a quota subtraction target job or a quota addition target job;
- calculate a corresponding subtraction quota when the job is a quota subtraction target job or a corresponding addition quota when the job is a quota addition target job;
- and
- update the current quota based on the subtraction quota and the addition quota.
An image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus and a server which are connected with each other via a communication line, wherein
- the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming section configured to form an image on a surface of a medium with a recording material the color of which can be erased by heating or a recording material the color of which cannot be erased by heating;
- and
- a heating section configured to heat the medium to fix the image or to heat the recording material the color of which can be erased by heating to erase the color;
- and the server comprising:
- a memory configured to store computer executable instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
- determining whether a job executed by the image forming apparatus is a quota subtraction target job or a quota addition target job;
- calculating a corresponding subtraction quota when the job is a quota subtraction target job or a corresponding addition quota when the job is a quota addition target job;
- and
- updating the current quota based on the addition quota and the subtraction quota.
An image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus, a color erasing apparatus, and a server which are connected with each other via a communication line, wherein
- the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming section configured to form an image on a surface of a medium with a recording material the color of which cannot not be erased by heating;
- and
- a heating section configured to heat the medium to fix the image;
- the color erasing apparatus comprising:
- a heating section configured to heat a recording material the color of which can be erased by heating to erase the color;
- and the server comprising:
- a memory configured to store computer executable instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
- determining whether a job executed by the image forming apparatus and the color erasing apparatus is a quota subtraction target job or a quota addition target job;
- calculating a corresponding subtraction quota when the job is a quota subtraction target job or a corresponding addition quota when the job is a quota addition target job;
- and
- updating the current quota based on the addition quota and the subtraction quota.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.