Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Fusako Ozawa

Kenji Taki

Chikatsu Suzuki

Yusuke Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Arai

Masatoshi Hitaka

Syunji Shimokawa

An image forming system includes: a recording material information detecting apparatus; an image forming apparatus; and a management server, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that detects recording material characteristic information; and a second hardware processor that acquires first environmental information, the image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a second recording material; a third hardware processor that acquires second environmental information; a fourth hardware processor that transmits the second environmental information to the management server and requests the recording material characteristic information corresponding to the second environmental information; and a fifth hardware processor that sets an image formation condition for the image former to form the image on the second recording material, and the management server includes a sixth hardware processor.

Image forming system, management server, and recording material information detecting apparatus

An image forming apparatus forms an image on a print medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a storage that stores medium information including profile information corresponding to the print medium and attribute information of the print medium; and a medium detection sensor that detects attribute actual information of the print medium; wherein the medium information is configured such that the profile information corresponding to the print medium is associated with the attribute information of the print medium, and the attribute information or the print medium includes information detectable by the medium detection sensor.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming system capable of executing a print job including a first job and a second job, the image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus configured to print an image on a sheet based on the first job, and thereafter, print an image on a sheet based on the second job; a sheet conveyance apparatus configured to insert the sheet that has been printed by the first job into the sheet that has been printed by the second job; an input unit configured to be used to input a time period in which execution of user operation related to the sheet conveyance apparatus is possible; and a control unit configured to print the job so as to finish the first job within the time period that has been input by the input unit.

Image forming system and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to print at a plurality of linear velocities; an image preparing time determination unit configured to determine a print image preparing time necessary for developing print data to a print image to be printed by the printing unit; a linear velocity determination unit configured to determine the linear velocity according to the print image preparing time determined by the image preparing time determination unit; and an engine control unit configured to operate the printing unit at the linear velocity determined by the linear velocity determination unit.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A bias correction is carried out before a color registration correction is carried out so as to stabilize the running state of an intermediate transfer belt, thereafter the bias correction ceases and the color registration correction is carried out.

Image forming apparatus containing color shading correction and bias correction of intermediate transfer belt

An image forming apparatus includes: a rotating belt which rotates around a roller; a drive section which rotates the belt; a detection section which detects a position of the belt in a width direction; a moving section which moves the belt in the width direction; a control section which corrects a deviation of the belt by controlling the moving section. The control section conducts a preparatory operation in which the control section changes an amount of control to be given to the moving section under the condition where the belt is rotated to obtain a correction data showing a relation between the amount of control and a change of a position of the belt in the width direction detected by the detection section, stores the correction data in a memory section, and then corrects the deviation based on the correction data stored in the memory section.

Image forming apparatus having a control section which corrects deviation of a belt

A full-color image forming apparatus for forming a toner image for each color on each image carrier, and for transferring the toner image onto a sheet, including: an image forming section for forming a correcting toner image for each color on a portion of an image carrier, wherein the portion corresponds to an interval between the successive sheets; and a control section for conducting a correcting operation of the toner image for each color, based on the correcting toner image which is formed by the image forming section, wherein, when the image forming section is possible to conduct an operation, if the image forming section is controlled to interrupt the correcting operation to use the correcting toner image yet to be formed, the control section controls the image forming section to form the residual correcting toner image, before the control section controls the image forming section to stop the operation.

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Hachioji, Japan

Fusako Ozawa