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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2017
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Terada, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image formation part that forms an image on a paper sheet; a conveyor that includes a plurality of conveying members and conveys the paper sheet; a hardware processor that acquires information on a smudge on a paper sheet on which an image has been formed by the image formation part, and identifies, from the plurality of conveying members, one or more dirty conveying member(s) that may have caused the smudge based on at least one of the information on the smudge, information on the conveying members, and information on a job for image formation executed by the image formation part.
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