Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tomoo Kudo

Hiroyuki Arai

Hiroki Ueda

Chikatsu Suzuki

Motoki Nakamichi

Masahiro Matsuo

Makoto Ui

Ken Miyazaki

Shigeo Konuma

Chiharu Kobayashi

Shingo Sasami

Disclosed is a tandem-type image forming system performing single-sided printing and double-sided printing on a sheet, the image forming system including: a first image forming apparatus; and a second image forming apparatus connected with the first image forming apparatus in series, wherein when the single-sided printing is performed, either the first image forming apparatus or the second image forming apparatus performs printing on a sheet, and when the double-sided printing is performed, both the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus performs the printing on a sheet, the image forming system further including: a control section which controls a sheet-passing image forming apparatus which is either the first image forming apparatus or the second image forming apparatus, and does not perform the printing but performs sheet-passing in the single-sided printing.

Image forming system and image forming apparatus

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section to perform image formation based on a plurality of jobs, including: a control section to allow a display section to display switching information showing that a paper feeding tray to be used in performing the job is to be switched, the switching information displayed before the plurality of jobs are performed by the image forming section.

Image forming apparatus for specifying a paper feeding tray

There is described an image outputting system including a controlling apparatus and an image outputting apparatus. The image outputting apparatus is provided with an inputting unit to input a change instruction with respect to the print products and a setting-change instructing unit to transmit the change instruction to the controlling apparatus, when the change instruction, inputted from the inputting unit, includes a change of the setting information. The controlling apparatus is provided with a first changing unit to rewrite the setting information attached to the first-type image data being an object of the change instruction, based on the change instruction when receiving the change instruction and an image develop processing section to convert the first-type image data, being an object of the change instruction, to the second-type image data, based on the setting information rewritten, and to send the second-type image data to the image outputting apparatus.

Image outputting system

An image forming apparatus having: a replacement part that can be replaced; an operation and display section; an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet; a power supply section that supplies power to the image forming section; a storage section that stores a procedure of replacing the replacement part; and a control section, wherein the control section carries out, upon input instruction of the replacement part to be replaced from the operation and display section, a display operation of the replacement procedure of the replacement part on the operation and display section and an ON/OFF control of the power supply section.

Image forming apparatus

In an image forming apparatuscapable of reserving a plurality of printing jobs, the suspended state retention time for retaining the suspended state is preset by the operation of an operation section. When a printing job during output operation has been suspended, a timing sectionstarts to measure the preset suspended state retention time. If the printing job having been suspended is not resumed even after the lapse of the suspended state retention time and there is a subsequent printable job, the order of the printing jobs is changed and the subsequent printing job is executed.

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Koganei, Japan

Tomoo Kudo