Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: a printing unit that performs a printing operation; a printing possibility determination unit that determines whether printing is possible, at the time of starting the printing operation; a printing stop unit that stops the printing operation, when the printing p...

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Main Author FUNAHASHI HIROYUKI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 26.04.2011
Subjects
CALCULATING
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTROGRAPHY
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
HOLOGRAPHY
MAGNETOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
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Summary:An image forming apparatus includes: a printing unit that performs a printing operation; a printing possibility determination unit that determines whether printing is possible, at the time of starting the printing operation; a printing stop unit that stops the printing operation, when the printing possibility determination unit determines that printing is impossible; a notification unit that notifies an error, when the printing operation is stopped; a notification time counting unit that counts a period in which an error is notified; a notification release unit that releases error notification, when the period in which an error is notified by the notification unit is counted for a predetermined time; and a stopped state reset unit that returns a stopped state of the printing unit whose printing operation is stopped, to a standby state before the printing unit performs the printing operation, when notification of an error is released.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20060501682