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Title:
IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013202907
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a serial tandem type image forming system consisting of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, in which a downtime of the system is reduced by performing a double-sided printing job as quick as possible while avoiding an influence caused by an operation of adjusting the image forming apparatuses.

An image forming system is a serial tandem type image forming system, in which each of an upstream machine 200 and a downstream machine 300 is configured to form images on both sides of a sheet. A controller of the system is configured to, when performing a double-sided printing job, in the state in which an adjusting operation is performed in one of the upstream machine 200 and the downstream machine 300, perform the double-sided printing job by operating only the other image forming apparatus in which the adjusting operation is not performed, and after ending the adjusting operation of one image forming apparatus, a mode is shifted to a mode (tandem mode) of performing the double-sided printing job in a series.


Inventors:
FUTAMI HIROYUKI
YAMAMOTO KENJI
OKAMOTO AKIRA
ISOBE TERUSHI
IKUTA KATSUYUKI
Application Number:
JP2012073535A
Publication Date:
October 07, 2013
Filing Date:
March 28, 2012
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA INC
International Classes:
B41J3/42; B41J29/38; G03G21/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2009278484A2009-11-26
JP2005022243A2005-01-27
JP2004255745A2004-09-16
JP2012027099A2012-02-09
JP2012058487A2012-03-22
JP2011145606A2011-07-28
JP2004259058A2004-09-16
JP2009278484A2009-11-26
JP2005022243A2005-01-27
JP2004255745A2004-09-16
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Nobuo Nakamura
Shoichi Masuka



 
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