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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2024
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Minoru Maekawara, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 29/20 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/2142 (2013.01); B41J 29/20 (2013.01); B41J 29/393 (2013.01); B41J 2203/01 (2020.08);
Abstract
An image forming system includes an image forming device that ejects ink from a nozzle based on image data and performs image forming processing to form an image on a printing medium, a read image generator that generates a read image from the image on the printing medium, and an inspection device that detects an abnormal image from an inspection image that is the read image of an image to be inspected, and after detecting the abnormal image, based on the read image of the printing medium on which an abnormal nozzle detection image is formed by the image forming device, detects the nozzle in which an abnormality occurs as an abnormal nozzle.