Image forming system for reducing waste paper
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorShingo Sasami
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Abstract
An image forming system includes a sheet conveyance unit, an image forming unit, a fixing unit and a controller. The sheet conveyance unit conveys continuous paper. The image forming unit forms an image on the continuous paper. The fixing unit fixes the image formed on the continuous paper. The controller controls an image forming operation performed by the sheet conveyance unit, the image forming unit and the fixing unit. In a case where a waste paper reduction mode is selected, the controller controls the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that a bottom end of a last image on the continuous paper be at a second stop position on an upper-stream side of a first stop position after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation.
Claims18
An image forming system, comprising:
- a sheet conveyance unit which conveys continuous paper;
- an image forming unit which forms an image on the continuous paper;
- a fixing unit which fixes the image formed on the continuous paper;
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- a controller which controls an image forming operation performed by the sheet conveyance unit, the image forming unit and the fixing unit, wherein
- in a case where a waste paper reduction mode is selected, the controller controls the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that a bottom end of a last image on the continuous paper be at a second stop position on an upper-stream side of a first stop position, without backtracking, after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation, and
- in a case where the waste paper reduction mode is not selected, the controller controls the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that the bottom end of the last image on the continuous paper be at the first stop position after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation.
A computer readable recording medium storing a program which is executed by a controller of an image forming system comprising a sheet conveyance unit which conveys continuous paper, an image forming unit which forms an image on the continuous paper, a fixing unit which fixes the image formed on the continuous paper, and the controller which controls an image forming operation performed by the sheet conveyance unit, the image forming unit and the fixing unit, the program makes the controller:
- control the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that a bottom end of a last image on the continuous paper be at a second stop position on an upper-stream side of a first stop position, without backtracking, after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation in a case where a waste paper reduction mode is selected, and
- control the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that the bottom end of the last image on the continuous paper be at the first stop position after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation in a case where the waste paper reduction mode is not selected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.