Japan, July 14 -- CANON INC has got intellectual property rights for 'IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS.' Other related details are as follows:
Application Number: JP,2022-072783
Category (FI): G03G15/00,303
Stage: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of a blur even when continuously forming high printing images.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 100 includes an image carrier 11, electrostatic image forming means 131, a developing device 2, transfer means 111, and a moving mechanism 7 that can move the developing device 2 to a first position and a second position further separated from the image carrier 11 than the first position, and the image forming apparatus executes an image forming operation to form an image on the image carrier 11 with toner according to image information. The image forming apparatus includes: a consumption acquisition unit 146 that acquires consumption information correlated to the consumption of the toner based on the image information; and an execution unit 147 that, when a first image forming operation and a second image forming operation subsequent to the first image forming operation are executed, if the toner consumption indicated by the consumption information is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold in the second image forming operation, controls the moving mechanism 7 to execute a moving operation to move the developing device 2 from the first position to the second position and from the second position to the first position in a non-image forming period between the first image forming operation and the second image forming operation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 (Grant)
Filing Date: April 26, 2022
Publication Date: Nov. 8, 2023
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