Konica Minolta, Inc.

Teppei Kunihisa

Soh Hirota

Hironori Akashi

Shigeki Naiki

Munenori Nakano

Kenji Tsuru

An image forming device to and from which a developing unit in which a developer containing toner is filled is detachable and removable, comprises a hardware processor that: enables the developing unit to perform a stir operation of the developer filled in the developing unit as an initial operation of the developing unit; obtains a reference value of a toner density set in advance in time of a factory shipment of the developing unit at time the stir operation is performed; and compares a toner density received from the developing unit during the stir operation with the reference value to determine a stir condition of the developer.

Image forming device, developer stirring method and non-transitory recording medium

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part that forms a toner image on a recording medium; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming part, wherein the image forming part includes an image carrier, the hardware processor executes: a first adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a first image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at a plurality of points in a first direction on the image carrier; and a second adjustment process of adjusting the image forming part with use of a second image formation condition determined in accordance with a toner adhesion amount at one point in a first direction on the image carrier, the image carrier rotates as a recording medium is conveyed, the first direction is a direction intersecting with a rotational direction of the image carrier.

Image forming apparatus and program

An image formation apparatus provided with an image forming unit and a server unit in a single housing includes a power supply unit that supplies the image forming unit and the server unit with power and a fan that sends external air into the server unit, and when supplying the image forming unit with power from the power supply unit is stopped the fan is still driven and sending external air into the server unit is thus not stopped.

Image formation apparatus for preventing a thermal load defect

An image forming apparatus forms test patches, and detects the adhesion amounts of toner in the test patches. The image forming apparatus calculates an approximate equation approximates the relationship between a developing bias and an adhesion amount of toner, based on the developing biases when the test patches were formed and the adhesion amounts of toner of the test patches. Distance between test patches is {(2n&#x2212;1)/2} times of value L, where n is a natural number and L is a length of the photo conductor drum in a circumferential direction. The accuracy of toner adhesion amount control can be improved, and image density can be stabilized.

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Teppei Kunihisa