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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Eiji Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/005 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2013.01); B41J 2/0057 (2013.01); B41J 2/165 (2013.01); B41J 2/16579 (2013.01); B41J 2/16585 (2013.01); G03G 15/55 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16573 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00569 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium P, a second storage unit that stores the history information about the maintenance of the image forming unit, and a control unit that, when the history information stored in the second storage unit is updated, sets a test image formation cycle of forming a test image used to adjust the image forming unit in accordance with the updated history information.