IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• Main Author: HAMADA TETSUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 25.01.2023
• Subjects: CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an image formation apparatus which can suppress the quality deterioration of a printed matter due to the excessive drying of a recording medium.SOLUTION: An image formation apparatus comprises: a conveyance unit which conveys a long recording medium in the longitudinal direction; an image formation unit which forms an image on the recording medium; a drying unit which dries the recording medium formed with the image by the image formation unit; and a control unit which controls the image formation unit and the conveyance unit so as to stop a portion of the recording medium formed with the image after conveying the portion to a discharge position where the portion is discharged from the interior of the drying unit after interrupting image formation on the recording medium by the image formation unit when the interruption of image formation on the recording medium is necessary.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】記録媒体の過剰乾燥による印刷物の品質低下を抑制することができる画像形成装置を提供する。【解決手段】長尺状の記録媒体を長手方向に搬送する搬送部と、記録媒体に画像を形成する画像形成部と、画像形成部で画像が形成された記録媒体を乾燥させるための乾燥部と、記録媒体への画像形成の中断が必要となった場合に、画像形成部による記録媒体への画像形成を中断させた後、画像形成済みの記録媒体の部分を、その部分が乾燥部の内部から排出される排出位置まで搬送させてから停止させるように、画像形成部と搬送部とを制御する制御部とを備える。【選択図】 図６