Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090009803 | Image Forming Apparatus and Computer Readable Recording Medium - An image forming apparatus comprises a display unit; and a display controlling unit that causes the display unit to display a first ready screen and a second ready screen. The first ready screen is displayed when a job can be accepted, and the first ready screen indicates that a job can be accepted and has a first button for detecting operator's input of a request for displaying a screen having first information. The second ready screen is displayed when a job can be accepted after input of the request is detected, and the second ready screen has the first information and has a second button for detecting input of a request for displaying second information other than the first information. | 01-08-2009 |
20090060541 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a fixing/pressurizing roller pair that nips a transfer sheet and transports to fix toner on the transfer sheet; a pressure control unit that controls a pressure demonstrated by the fixing/pressurizing roller pair in consideration of the type of the transfer sheet; a transfer sheet compatibility determining unit that determines whether or not the pressure set by the pressure control unit is compatible with the transfer sheet to be inserted between the fixing/pressurizing roller pair; and a control unit that performs a process to cause to notify a user of incompatibility and/or a process to forbid printing if the transfer sheet compatibility determining unit determines that the pressure set by the pressure control unit is not compatible with the transfer sheet. | 03-05-2009 |
20090196668 | Image Forming System Including Finisher Applying Punching Processing and Staple Processing to Printed Papers, and Image Forming Apparatus Having Mechanism for Printing on Both Surfaces of Paper - An image forming system is given, in advance, unique setting as a behavior to be performed when an error occurs regarding postprocessing. In a case where the postprocessing becomes inexecutable during the operation of the system, the system either cancels the postprocessing to continue printing (Steps S | 08-06-2009 |
20090261524 | Image Forming System, Image Forming Apparatus and Print Server - An image forming apparatus has: pluralities of sheet storage units; a printing unit; a sheet driving unit that feeds a sheet of paper from the sheet storage units to the printing unit; a group setting maintaining unit that forms a group of the sheet storage units; a residual sheet amount detecting unit that detects sheet empty on any of the sheet storage units in the group; a sheet storage switching control unit that controls the sheet driving unit to select another one of the sheet storage units in the same group for feeding a sheet, if the residual sheet amount detecting unit detects the sheet empty; and a sheet empty warning unit that warns a user of the sheet empty detected by the residual sheet amount detecting unit. | 10-22-2009 |
20140022588 | Image Forming Apparatus and Computer Readable Recording Medium - An image forming apparatus comprises a display unit; and a display controlling unit that causes the display unit to display a first ready screen and a second ready screen. The first ready screen is displayed when a job can be accepted, and the first ready screen indicates that a job can be accepted and has a first button for detecting operator's input of a request for displaying a screen having first information. The second ready screen is displayed when a job can be accepted after input of the request is detected, and the second ready screen has the first information and has a second button for detecting input of a request for displaying second information other than the first information. | 01-23-2014 |
20140169809 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER CONTAINER ORDERING METHOD - A toner consumption amount identifying unit identifies a toner consumption amount of toner consumed in a printing process from the print data. A toner residual amount identifying unit identifies a toner residual amount in a toner container from the toner consumption amount. A toner residual amount data managing unit stores order-timing toner residual amount data into a non volatile memory device at a timing when an ordering process of the toner container succeeds, and deletes the order-timing toner residual amount data in the non volatile memory device if the value of the toner residual amount is larger than a value of the order-timing toner residual amount data. An order processing unit performs the ordering process if the order-timing toner residual amount data is not stored in the non volatile memory device and the value of the toner residual amount is either equal to or less than a predetermined value. | 06-19-2014 |
20140241739 | Image Forming Apparatus That Performs Effective Toner Refresh Process, Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium, and Image Forming Method - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a toner carrier, a region setting unit, a printing-rate detecting unit, a discharge-region determining unit, and a region redividing unit. The region setting unit is configured to set a plurality of regions divided along an image width direction on the image carrier. The printing-rate detecting unit is configured to detect a printing rate when forming the image for each of the plurality of regions. The discharge-region determining unit is configured to determine necessity of a toner discharge for each region based on the detected printing rate. The region redividing unit is configured to redivide a region determined to require the toner discharge into a plurality of regions in which respective printing rates during subsequent image formation are individually detected. | 08-28-2014 |
20140293347 | DISPLAY OPERATION DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY OPERATION PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY OPERATION METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A display operation device is included in an image forming apparatus. The display operation device includes an apparatus-image display unit and a paper feed/output specifying unit. The apparatus-image display unit displays an image of the image forming apparatus on a screen. In the image, a paper feed source and a paper output destination are separately located. The paper feed/output specifying unit receives at least information specifying the paper feed source and the paper output destination as a result of linking of the paper feed source with the paper output destination in the image on the screen. | 10-02-2014 |