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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2024
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyor conveying a sheet medium; an image forming part forming an image on the sheet medium; a cutting part; a signal outputting part outputting a state signal; a reporting part; and a controller. The controller executes: an image forming process of conveying the sheet medium by the conveyor and forming the image on the sheet medium by the image forming part, and a cutting process of moving the cutting part. In a case where the sheet medium has not been cut even though the cutting process was executed during image formation on the sheet medium in the image forming process, the controller continues the image formation without interruption and causes the reporting part to report information regarding a failure of cutting of the sheet medium.