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US09052661B2 Image forming apparatus that makes FPOT (first print out time) appropriate in accordance with time taken to expand image information and to reduce deterioration of consumable items 有权
使FPOT(第一打印输出时间)根据扩展图像信息所花费的时间并减少消耗品的劣化的图像形成装置

  • Patent Title: Image forming apparatus that makes FPOT (first print out time) appropriate in accordance with time taken to expand image information and to reduce deterioration of consumable items
  • Patent Title (中): 使FPOT(第一打印输出时间)根据扩展图像信息所花费的时间并减少消耗品的劣化的图像形成装置
  • Application No.: US13657665
    Application Date: 2012-10-22
  • Publication No.: US09052661B2
    Publication Date: 2015-06-09
  • Inventor: Tadashi Okanishi
  • Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
  • Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
  • Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
  • Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
  • Priority: WOPCT/JP2011/076758 20111121
  • Main IPC: G03G21/14
  • IPC: G03G21/14 G03G15/00
Image forming apparatus that makes FPOT (first print out time) appropriate in accordance with time taken to expand image information and to reduce deterioration of consumable items
Abstract:
When a pre-rotation sequence is started at a time at which a print-start notification command is transmitted, in the case where a predicted time period is longer than a time period taken to perform the pre-rotation sequence, an appropriate FPOT is not realized. To determine whether the pre-rotation sequence can be started at a time at which a print reservation command that is to be transmitted before transmission of the print-start notification command is transmitted to the engine, a drum-rotation permission command is provided, whereby, in the case of immediately starting the pre-rotation sequence, the pre-rotation sequence can be started earlier than the pre-rotation sequence is started, reducing the FPOT. In the case of not immediately starting the pre-rotation sequence, a time period taken to perform image expansion and the time period taken to perform the pre-rotation sequence can be made to coincide with each other, reducing consumable items deterioration.
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