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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2018
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Ueda, Hachioji, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming system includes a hardware processor that acquires results of reading of an image on a recording medium read by an image reader, determines quality of the image, and controls an ejector and sheet ejection into the ejector, the recording medium being ejected into the ejector, the ejector including a stacker, wherein the stacker includes an elevating tray on which ejected recording mediums are stacked, and has a mechanism that enables removal of a recording medium placed on the elevating tray while the elevating tray is descending, the elevating tray being capable of ascending and descending, and, when the stacker is set as an ejection destination at a time of reading of the image and ejecting the recording medium into the ejector, and the image is determined to be abnormal, the hardware processor determines a timing to cause the elevating tray of the set stacker to descend.