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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2019
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Ken Miyazaki, Sagamihara, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet profile setter; a conveyer; an image former that forms an image on a sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with an image forming condition; a sheet physical property measurer that makes measurement of a physical property value of the sheet; a conformity determiner that makes determination of conformity between the sheet fed from the sheet feed tray and a sheet indicated by the sheet profile set in the sheet feed tray; and a notifier that determines which has been performed more recently between insertion of the sheet into the sheet feed tray and setting of the sheet profile to the sheet feed tray before the measurement so as to send a notification of a result of the determination, by a first notification method in a former case and by a second notification method in a latter case.