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US 9,335,681 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus with controller for setting fixing temperature based on number of times of sheet reuse
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshiyuki Ueno
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor obtains information regarding reuse of a sheet. The controller controls a heating temperature of a fixer such that a target fixing temperature becomes a fixing temperature corresponding to the information regarding the reuse to be obtained by the sensor.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet;
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet to be conveyed by the conveying unit using an erasable toner;
- a fixer configured to heat the image at a target fixing temperature to fix the image to be formed by the image forming unit onto the sheet;
- a sensor configured to obtain information printed on the sheet regarding reuse of the sheet including a number of times that the sheet has been subject to an erasing processing for reuse;
- a storage unit that stores a plurality of different fixing temperatures, each corresponding to a different number of times that a sheet has been subject to the erasing processing;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- receive, from the storage unit, the fixing temperature that corresponds to the number of times that the sheet has been subject to the erasing processing for reuse obtained by the sensor, and control a heating temperature of the fixer such that the target fixing temperature is the received fixing temperature, wherein
- the stored fixing temperatures are lower as the corresponding number of times that a sheet has been subject to the erasing processing is larger.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet;
- an image forming unit configured to:
- form an image on the sheet to be conveyed by the conveying unit using an erasable toner, and
- form an image on the sheet to be conveyed by the conveying unit using a non-erasable toner;
- a fixer configured to heat the image at a target fixing temperature to fix the image to be formed by the image forming unit onto the sheet;
- a sensor configured to obtain information printed on the sheet regarding reuse of the sheet including a number of times that the sheet has been subject to an erasing processing for reuse;
- a storage unit that stores a plurality of different fixing temperatures each in correspondence with a different number of times that a sheet has been subject to the erasing processing;
- a controller configured to:
- receive, from the storage unit, the fixing temperature that corresponds to the number of times that the sheet has been subject to the erasing processing for reuse obtained by the sensor, and
- control a heating temperature of the fixer such that the target fixing temperature is the received fixing temperature;
- and
- an operation panel configured to receive a request for an image formation process using the erasable toner,
- wherein
- the image forming unit forms an image corresponding to a document image to be subjected to image formation using the erasable toner and an image corresponding to the number of times that the sheet has been subject to the erasing processing using the non-erasable toner in a case where the operation panel receives the request for the image formation process using the erasable toner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.