Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Jun Yokobori

Hiroyuki Maruyama

Junji Sato

Takao Kurohata

Takaaki Sakai

Tadao Kishimoto

Toshifumi Isobe

Akio Ueda

Minoru Asakawa

Takashi Murahashi

Shoichi Nakamura

Chikatsu Suzuki

Masaru Ushio

Hiroki Ueda

Akitoshi Matsubara

Utami Soma

Masashi Sugano

Susumu Kurihara

Kunihisa Yoshino

Yoshihisa Kamata

Yoshinao Kitahara

Satoshi Haneda

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Seiichiro Hiratsuka

Daisuke Ueda

Hisashi Shoji

Akira Kosugi

Tetsuya Niitsuma

Norio Joichi

Makoto Ui

Takanori Kanda

Shinya Tanigami

Shizuo Kayano

Fumio Haibara

Masahiro Osawa

Yoshiko Matsuoka

Keisuke Tanaka

Masahi Sugano

Michio Osada

Disclosed an image forming system including: an image forming section to perform an image forming processing to form an image on a sheet to eject the image-formed sheet to an sheet ejection section; a control section to control the image forming processing by the image forming section; a specify section to specify the number of units for stop in a temporary stop mode in which the image forming processing by the image forming section is temporarily stopped, wherein the control section allows the image forming section to stop the image forming processing when the image forming processing by the image forming section reaches the number of units for stop specified with the specify section.

Image forming system and method to temporarily stop an image forming process when reaching the number of units specified by a user, improving working efficiency

According to this invention, there is provided an image printing system which causes a plurality of image printing apparatuses to share and concurrently process an image printing job for outputting a plurality of prints based on image printing conditions and image information supplied from an information processing apparatus. In the image printing system of the invention, each of the image printing apparatuses interactively connected to each other has a proof/wait selection function of selecting a proof mode of outputting a single print or a wait mode of displaying image printing conditions and waiting. A master machine to which image printing conditions and image information are supplied from an information processing apparatus executes image printing operation in the proof mode or wait mode, and transfers the image printing conditions and image information to another image printing apparatus.

Image printing system, image printing apparatus, and image printing method

An image forming system includes an input unit for input of setting information, an image forming unit, a conveying unit, a control unit, and a jam detecting unit, wherein a set of a plurality of different kinds of special sheets disposed in a predetermined order is used. When occurrence of a jam is detected by the jam detecting unit, the control unit recognizes whether a special sheet having been fed is present in the image forming system, and if it is recognized that a special sheet is present in the image forming system, the control unit controls the conveying unit, after the jam being released, to eject a special sheet or sheets as unnecessary up to one that is disposed preceding a special sheet that is of the same kind as a most front one that was present in the image forming system at the time of the occurrence of the jam.

Image forming system, image forming device, post-processor, and program

An image forming system including a binding system section that generates a stack of sheets by accumulating a plurality of sheets and that binds the sheets by wrapping the stack of sheets with a cover sheet in the shape of a horizontal U, the image forming system having: a measurement section to measure the thickness of the stack of sheets; a spine cover width determining section to determine a spine cover width in the cover sheet based on the thickness of the stack of sheets measured by the measurement section; and an image forming section to form on the cover sheet a front cover image and a back cover image separating them by a spacing equal to the spine cover width.

Image forming system

An image forming apparatus includes: a document conveyance section for conveying a document of a document bundle to a document reading position; a reading section for reading the document in the document bundle to obtain image of the document; a designation section for designating to read a first document of the document bundle as a document with a tab; and a reading control section for controlling the reading section to read image for a whole document area of the first document including a tab potion, when designated by the designation section.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of reading image data from document bundle including document with tab

An image forming apparatus comprises a conveyance section which conveys at least one sheet of a second special sheet group so as to be inserted between two special sheets of a first special sheet group on a stacking section. A rest of special sheets which belong to the same set as a special sheet of the second special sheet group having been last supplied is supplied and ejected to a sheet ejection destination other than the stacking section before a special sheet of the second special sheet group is inserted after the latter sheet of the two special sheets of the first special sheet group are supplied.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system and program for image forming

An image forming apparatus for forming an image based on image information on a recording medium, including: a storage section for storing print conditions for each of a plurality of pages of image information; a print condition setting section for setting print conditions in accordance with the print conditions stored in the storage section; a preprint section for preprinting in conformity to the print conditions having been set; an input section for inputting contents of a change in print condition for the page to be changed, selected from a plurality of pages after the preprinting; and a change section for changing the setting of the print conditions for the selected page to be changed, based on the contents of the change.

Image forming apparatus having device for changing print condition

An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming section to form an image on a sheet and to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed; a stacking section to stack the sheet discharged from the image forming section; a setting section to set a condition whether or not to allow a mixed stack mode on which plural sheets related to at least two different jobs are mixed and stacked in the stacking section; and a discharge control section to control the image forming section to discharge the sheet to the stacking section in accordance with the setting condition whether or not to allow the mixed stack mode.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording sheet whose area is larger than that of a predetermined size-fixed recording sheet, comprises an image forming member for forming an image on the recording sheet; a sheet feeder to feed the recording sheet to the image forming member; a controller to control the image forming member so as to form an image on the recording sheet such that a first central point of the recording sheet defined in terms of a main scanning direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording sheet by the sheet feeder is placed on a first center line of the image, wherein the first center line is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, and one side of the image is parallel to one side of the recording sheet.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image forming apparatus is provided which is capable of forming images on recording materials of various types and sizes. The image forming apparatus includes a storing member for storing recording materials having an arbitrary size, a size-information input device for inputting size information corresponding to the arbitrary size of the recording materials, and a controller for controlling an image forming operation according to the size information inputted by the size-information input device. The size information input by the size-information input device includes each of arbitrary values corresponding to longitudinal and lateral lengths of the recording materials.

Image forming apparatus capable of forming images on recording materials of various types and sizes

An image reading apparatus includes: a detecting section for detecting a size of an original sheet; an image reading section for reading an image described in the original sheet; and a storage medium for storing the read image which is read by the image reading section; wherein before the size of the original sheet is detected by the detecting section, the image reading section reads the image to store the read image in the storage medium; and after the size of the original sheet is detected by the detecting section, a size of the stored image which is stored in the storage medium is changed in accordance with the detected size of the original sheet, which is detected by the detecting section.

Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading method and image forming method

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Jun Yokobori