Image forming apparatus for determining a common blank space for parallel continuous printing
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorHiroyuki Ujike
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Abstract
Provided is an image forming apparatus which acquires a plurality of jobs for repeatedly arranging images having widths smaller than a width of a continuous paper in a conveyance direction of the continuous paper, sets information for arranging the acquired jobs in a width direction of the continuous paper, forms images based on the set information, and sets a common blank forming period at which blanks among images appearing at different periods in each job coincide with each other between the jobs in the conveyance direction and forms a common blank.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- acquire a plurality of jobs for arranging images having widths smaller than a width of a continuous paper in a conveyance direction of the continuous paper, and
- arrange the jobs acquired by the processor in a width direction of the continuous paper;
- and
- an image forming unit which forms images based on the information set by the control unit,
- wherein the processor is configured to set a common blank forming interval at which blanks among images within respective jobs coincide with blanks among images within parallel jobs in the conveyance direction and repeatedly form a common blank within the parallel jobs based on the common blank forming interval.
An image forming method comprising the steps of:
- (a) acquiring a plurality of jobs for arranging images having widths smaller than a width of a continuous paper in a conveyance direction of the continuous paper;
- (b) setting information for arranging the jobs acquired in the acquisition step in a width direction of the continuous paper;
- and
- (c) forming images based on the information set in the step (b),
- wherein the step (b) comprises the step of setting a common blank forming interval at which blanks among images within respective jobs coincide with blanks among images within parallel jobs in the conveyance direction and repeatedly forming a common blank within the parallel jobs based upon the common blank forming interval.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stored with a common blank forming interval setting program causing a computer to execute a process for forming images on a continuous paper, comprising the steps of:
- (a) acquiring a plurality of jobs for arranging images having widths smaller than a width of a continuous paper in a conveyance direction of the continuous paper;
- and
- (b) setting information for arranging the jobs acquired in the acquisition step in a width direction of the continuous paper,
- wherein the step (b) comprises the step of setting a common blank forming interval at which blanks among images in respective jobs coincide with blanks among images within parallel jobs in the conveyance direction and repeatedly forming a common blank within the parallel jobs based on the common blank forming interval.
An image forming system having an image forming apparatus for forming images on a continuous paper, comprising:
- a processor which acquires a plurality of jobs for arranging images having widths smaller than a width of a continuous paper in a conveyance direction of the continuous paper, and
- which sets information for arranging the jobs acquired by the processor in a width direction of the continuous paper,
- wherein the image forming apparatus comprises:
- an image forming unit which forms images based on the information set by the control unit, and
- the processor sets a common blank forming interval at which blanks among images within respective jobs coincide with blanks among images within parallel jobs in the conveyance direction and repeatedly form a common blank within the parallel jobs based on the common blank forming interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.