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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Uchida, Tachikawa, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/5095 (2013.01); G03G 15/5062 (2013.01); G03G 15/556 (2013.01); G03G 15/6517 (2013.01); G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 15/2078 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00738 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00751 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus or an image forming system, includes a control section to control, at the time of forming an image by using a long sheet with a conveying direction sheet length longer than that of a sheet with a fixed paper size, so as to perform image formation by arranging multiple images on the long sheet, and the control section controls so as to form images repeatedly with a predetermined cycle on the long sheet, detects a margin region being a region where images are not formed on the long sheet, and controls image formation so as to dispose a patch image on the margin region.