IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM

• Main Author: MIYAMOTO TATSUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.08.2011
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRESENTATION OF DATA; PRINTING; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately update the remaining time even though an image formation condition is changed before the completion of the image formation. SOLUTION: The image formation apparatus includes: an image formation part to form an image; a plurality of media container parts; a media feed part to feed the media in the prescribed media container part to the image formation part; a computation part 49 configured to calculate the remaining time showing time to complete the image formation on all the media of a set number of print, on the basis of a feed time required for feeding the media by the media feed part, and a print time required for image formation by the image formation part; and an image formation condition change detector configured to detect a change of image formation conditions. When the change of the image formation conditions is detected, the computation part 49 calculates the remaining time, on the basis of the feed time and the print time after the change of the image formation conditions. Since the remaining time is calculated on the basis of the feed time and the print time after the change of the image formation conditions, when the change of the image formation conditions is detected, the remaining time is accurately updated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT