Image forming apparatus, method of setting fixing temperature, and computer program product
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKiriko Chosokabe, Mikio Nakajima, Homare Ehara
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information to identify a user; a usage history information acquiring unit that acquires usage history information for the user specified by the identification information; an output setting forecasting unit that forecasts output setting used by the user based on the usage history information; and a fixing temperature setting unit that sets a fixing temperature based on the forecasted output setting.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information to identify a user;
- a usage history information acquiring unit that acquires usage history information for the user specified by the identification information;
- an output setting forecasting unit that forecasts output setting for image forming used by the user based on the usage history information;
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- a fixing temperature setting unit that varies based on the identified user, and sets a fixing temperature based on the forecasted output setting.
A method of setting a fixing temperature of an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- acquiring identification information to identify a user;
- acquiring usage history information for the user specified by the identification information;
- forecasting output setting for image forming used by the user based on the usage history information;
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- varying a fixing temperature based on the identified user, and setting the fixing temperature based on the forecasted output setting.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-usable medium having computer-readable program codes embodied in the medium, wherein the program codes when executed cause a computer to execute:
- acquiring identification information to identify a user;
- acquiring usage history information for the user specified by the identification information;
- forecasting output setting for image forming used by the user based on the usage history information;
- and
- varying a fixing temperature based on the identified user, and setting the fixing temperature based on the output forecasted setting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.