Title:
IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2014209258
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To configure an apparatus, when recording material capable of decoloring in a short time is available, to combine an image forming apparatus and an image decoloring device to reduce installation costs and include an image forming function and an image decoloring function in the single apparatus.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation setting unit that sets, upon indication of decoloring operation, the operation of units so that the image forming apparatus operates in a decoloring mode; a supplying unit that supplies media having images formed thereon with recording material capable of heat-decoloring set in at least one specified storage unit; a fixing unit that heats, in a decoloring mode, the media to a predetermined temperature or higher to decolor the images formed on the media; and a control unit that, when a job in a mode other than the decoloring mode is requested during the decoloring mode, holds the execution of the job in a standby state, and executes the job in a standby state after the job in the decoloring mode is completed.
Inventors:
IMAMIYA KOJI
Application Number:
JP2014128357A
Publication Date:
November 06, 2014
Filing Date:
June 23, 2014
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOSHIBA CORP
TOSHIBA TEC KK
TOSHIBA TEC KK
International Classes:
G03G21/14; G03G21/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masatoshi Kurata
Toshihiro Fukuhara
Nobuhisa Nogawa
Peak Takashi
Naoki Kono
Sunagawa 克
Iseki Mamoru 3
Tadashi Inoue
Tatsushi Sato
Okada Kishi
Mihoko Horiuchi
Toshihiro Fukuhara
Nobuhisa Nogawa
Peak Takashi
Naoki Kono
Sunagawa 克
Iseki Mamoru 3
Tadashi Inoue
Tatsushi Sato
Okada Kishi
Mihoko Horiuchi