Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Fei Cheng

Takashi Suzuki

Tetsuya Okano

An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit; an authentication-information input unit; a storage unit; and a controller. The storage unit stores a plurality of secure jobs and a plurality of authentication information associated with the secure jobs respectively. The controller is configured to: acquire first authentication information; in a case that the first authentication information matches an authentication information stored in the storage unit, cause the image processing unit to execute a secure job stored in the storage unit and associated with the authentication information; acquire second authentication information which has been inputted during an interruption of the secure job; and in a case that the second authentication information matches another authentication information, and that another secure job associated with the another authentication information is executable by the image processing unit, cause the image processing unit to execute the another secure job.

Image processing apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives jobs, an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet, a storage unit, and a controller. Each of the jobs is a first type job or a second type job. The first type job includes recipient-specific information that specifies a recipient of a sheet on which an image related to the first type job is formed, and the second type job does not include the recipient-specific information. In a case that a job is received by the receiving unit while not executing any job, the controller controls the image forming unit to form an image related to the job on a sheet. In a case that another job is received by the receiving unit while executing the job, the controller stores the another job in the storage unit.

Image forming apparatus, method for executing job, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit and a controller causing the image forming unit to perform printing in printing periods after respective non-printing periods occurring alternately with the printing periods, determining a number of sheets to be printed in each of the printing periods in accordance with a number of sheets remaining to be printed in a print job, wherein, when printing periods include a first printing period and a second printing period, determining a number of sheets to be printed in the first printing period and determining a number of sheets to be printed in the second printing period which is in relation to the determined number of sheets to be printed in the first printing period, and determining a length of each of the non-printing periods in accordance with the determined number of sheets to be printed in each of the printing periods.

Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, and printing apparatus

A printer includes a print unit; a processor; and memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the printer to: operate the printing unit in an operation mode, which is one of a power supply mode and a power saving mode, wherein power consumption in the power saving mode is less than power consumption in the power supply mode; execute a correction process to acquire a correction value; adjust printing characteristics of the print unit in accordance with the acquired correction value; and in case that a particular condition is satisfied while the correction process is performed and there is a print job to be executed in accordance with the adjusted printing characteristics after completing the correction process, change the operation mode from the power supply mode to the power saving mode after completing the correction process and executing the print job.

Printer

An image forming apparatus including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet; a printing unit configured to drive a developing device accommodating developer therein, supply the developer from the developing device to a photosensitive member having an electrostatic latent image formed thereon to thus form a developer image, and transfer the developer image onto the sheet, in accordance with the conveyance of the sheet by the conveyance unit; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a remaining life span of the developing device based on a driving amount of the developing device; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust a distance between the sheets being conveyed by the conveyance unit based on the remaining life span of the developing device acquired by the first acquisition unit.

Image forming apparatus and storage device

An image forming apparatus including: a sheet feeding section; an image forming section configured to form an image on the sheet fed from the sheet feeding section; and a control device configured to: cause the image forming section to form the image, cause the image forming section to perform a quality assurance operation, if a resource necessary for the image forming operation is not available for a predetermined time from an end of the image forming operation, and extend the predetermined time when determined that it is necessary for the user to set the sheet in the sheet feeding section prior to the image forming operation to be longer than the predetermined time when determined that it is not necessary for the user to set the sheet in the sheet feeding section prior to the image forming operation.

Image forming apparatus

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a printing mechanism; a plurality of trays; a discharge mechanism; a plurality of detection mechanisms which detect whether a height of the sheets stacked on the trays is not less than a threshold value; and a controller which controls the discharge mechanism and the printing mechanism. When the detection mechanisms detect that all heights of the sheets stacked on the trays are not less than the threshold value, the controller controls the discharge mechanism to discontinue a discharge of the sheets. After the discharge of the sheets is discontinued, when the detection mechanisms detect that the heights of the sheets stacked on at least two trays became smaller than the threshold value, the controller controls the discharge mechanism to resume the discharge of the sheets on a tray which is other than a tray which is recovered last.

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Fei Cheng