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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2015
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Fei Cheng, Nagoya, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit and a controller causing the image forming unit to perform printing in printing periods after respective non-printing periods occurring alternately with the printing periods, determining a number of sheets to be printed in each of the printing periods in accordance with a number of sheets remaining to be printed in a print job, wherein, when printing periods include a first printing period and a second printing period, determining a number of sheets to be printed in the first printing period and determining a number of sheets to be printed in the second printing period which is in relation to the determined number of sheets to be printed in the first printing period, and determining a length of each of the non-printing periods in accordance with the determined number of sheets to be printed in each of the printing periods.