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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tadashi Okanishi, Mishima, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/043 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5062 (2013.01); G03G 15/043 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 15/6591 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus connected to one or more other image forming apparatuses, the image forming apparatus comprises: a detecting unit that detects a characteristic of a recording material; an obtaining unit that obtains a detection result by the detecting unit in each of the one or more other image forming apparatuses; and a determining unit that determines a type of a recording material used for image formation in the image forming apparatus based on the detection result by the detecting unit and the detection result obtained by the obtaining unit.