Abstract: Provided are: a transfer medium supply unit that supplies a transfer medium for image formation; a storage unit that records supply unit setting information regarding the transfer medium supply unit and transfer medium information regarding the transfer medium; and a control unit that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the control unit allows setting, in the supply unit setting information, the transfer medium information of the transfer medium to be used in the transfer medium supply unit, records the supply unit setting information including the set transfer medium information in the storage unit, and when the set transfer medium information is changed in the supply unit setting information, sets history information of the transfer medium information in the supply unit setting information including the changed transfer medium information and records the history information in the storage unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit; an image forming unit; a conveying unit; sheet detectors disposed on a conveyance path to detect a sheet; a sheet ejection unit which, if a jam occurs on the conveyance path, ejects a remaining sheet on the conveyance path after a sheet that has caused the jam is removed; and a control unit which stores, in a storage unit, information representing a confirmed section of the conveyance path, the confirmed section being a section confirmed to have no remaining sheet as a result of ejection of the remaining sheet, and which, if one of the sheet detectors detects a first sheet that has reached the confirmed section after recovery from the jam, allows the sheet feeding unit to feed second and subsequent sheets.

Abstract: Provided are: a transfer medium supply unit that supplies a transfer medium for image formation; a storage unit that records supply unit setting information regarding the transfer medium supply unit and transfer medium information regarding the transfer medium; and a control unit that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the control unit allows setting, in the supply unit setting information, the transfer medium information of the transfer medium to be used in the transfer medium supply unit, records the supply unit setting information including the set transfer medium information in the storage unit, and when the set transfer medium information is changed in the supply unit setting information, sets history information of the transfer medium information in the supply unit setting information including the changed transfer medium information and records the history information in the storage unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit; an image forming unit; a conveying unit; sheet detectors disposed on a conveyance path to detect a sheet; a sheet ejection unit which, if a jam occurs on the conveyance path, ejects a remaining sheet on the conveyance path after a sheet that has caused the jam is removed; and a control unit which stores, in a storage unit, information representing a confirmed section of the conveyance path, the confirmed section being a section confirmed to have no remaining sheet as a result of ejection of the remaining sheet, and which, if one of the sheet detectors detects a first sheet that has reached the confirmed section after recovery from the jam, allows the sheet feeding unit to feed second and subsequent sheets.

Abstract: A tandem-type image forming system comprises: a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected in series, the image forming apparatuses which respectively perform image formation on sides of a sheet, thereby performing a job, the image forming apparatuses including: a first image forming apparatus; and a second image forming apparatus provided upper than the first image forming apparatus in a sheet conveying direction, wherein the first image forming apparatus includes: a controlling section which controls transmission of image data generated based on printing data of the job received by the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus, and the second image forming apparatus includes: a controlling section which controls feeding of a sheet on which the image formation is performed based on the image data received from the first image forming apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a plurality of trays to store an index sheet provided with a tab at a predetermined position of the index sheet, a setting section to set first information concerning the index sheet stored in the tray for each of the plurality of trays, a receiving section to receive second information concerning an insertion of the index sheet in a job, and a controller to control an execution of the job and an operation of feeding the index sheet. The controller automatically selects the tray in the execution of the job based on the first information and the second information.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming system in which a paper sheet processing is accurately implemented without being influenced by a shrinkage of the paper sheet. The system includes a paper sheet feeding section, an image processing section, an image forming section, a paper sheet processing section and a control section. The control section accepts a paper sheet reference position designated at a position within the paper sheet and a designated distance designated as a distance from the paper sheet reference position to the paper-sheet processing implementation position, to control the paper sheet feeding operation so as to make the apparatus reference position and the paper sheet reference position coincide with each other, and further, controls the image processing section to set an rotation angle of the image at a value that makes a paper-sheet conveyance direction, an image forming direction and a paper sheet processing direction, coincide with each other.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which continuously forms an image on sheets of paper, three or more stackers to which the sheets on which the image is formed by the image forming unit are ejected and a control unit which determines paper ejection order of stackers to which the sheets are to be ejected among the three or more stackers in a predetermined order, wherein each of the stackers includes a loading unit on which the sheets are loaded and a conveyance cart which is disposed under the loading unit and by which the loading unit can be removed from the stacker.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a storage unit which stores job data of a reserved job, an image forming unit which executes an image forming based on the job data of the reserved job, a paper feeding unit which stores a paper to be supplied to the image forming unit, a display unit, a control unit which determines whether a type of a paper to be used in the reserved job is different from a type of a paper which is stored in the paper feeding unit or not, and allows the display unit to display a job scheduling screen for displaying reservation information indicating a time required for an execution of the reserved job by including a predetermined notification when the control unit determines that the type of the paper to be used in the reserved job is different from the type of the paper which is stored in the paper feeding unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which executes a predetermined image forming process to a paper, a control section which controls so as to receive reservations of a plurality of jobs, so as to execute the plurality of jobs in a predetermined order and to make the image forming unit carry out the image forming process to the paper in each predetermined interval, so as to continuously executed the plurality of jobs without interrupting the image forming process in each predetermined interval, so as to stop the image forming process in each predetermined interval until a reserved job be in a state where the image forming process is startable when a predetermined continuous execution not-feasible condition is met when starting an execution of the reserved job and a display section which displays an execution order of the plurality of jobs which are received by the control section so as to be specified.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a plurality of trays to store an index sheet provided with a tab at a predetermined position of the index sheet, a setting section to set first information concerning the index sheet stored in the tray for each of the plurality of trays, a receiving section to receive second information concerning an insertion of the index sheet in a job, and a controller to control an execution of the job and an operation of feeding the index sheet. The controller automatically selects the tray in the execution of the job based on the first information and the second information.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to visually recognize a suitable time when an operator should stay at the machine side, even if a reserved job includes a job continuous implementation impeding factor. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section to implement the reserved job; an operating section to accept operations for inputting a plurality of reserved jobs; a controlling section to extract a specific reserved job, which includes the job continuous implementation impeding factor, from the plurality of reserved jobs inputted through the operating section, so as to set discrimination information representing the job continuous implementation impeding factor into the specific reserved job; and a displaying section to display the specific reserved job to which the discrimination information is set and other reserved jobs to which the discrimination information is not set, on the same screen in a synopsis manner.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which continuously forms an image on sheets of paper, three or more stackers to which the sheets on which the image is formed by the image forming unit are ejected and a control unit which determines paper ejection order of stackers to which the sheets are to be ejected among the three or more stackers in a predetermined order, wherein each of the stackers includes a loading unit on which the sheets are loaded and a conveyance cart which is disposed under the loading unit and by which the loading unit can be removed from the stacker.

Abstract: A tandem-type image forming system comprises: a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected in series, the image forming apparatuses which respectively perform image formation on sides of a sheet, thereby performing a job, the image forming apparatuses including: a first image forming apparatus; and a second image forming apparatus provided upper than the first image forming apparatus in a sheet conveying direction, wherein the first image forming apparatus includes: a controlling section which controls transmission of image data generated based on printing data of the job received by the first image forming apparatus to the second image forming apparatus, and the second image forming apparatus includes: a controlling section which controls feeding of a sheet on which the image formation is performed based on the image data received from the first image forming apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which executes a predetermined image forming process to a paper, a control section which controls so as to receive reservations of a plurality of jobs, so as to execute the plurality of jobs in a predetermined order and to make the image forming unit carry out the image forming process to the paper in each predetermined interval, so as to continuously executed the plurality of jobs without interrupting the image forming process in each predetermined interval, so as to stop the image forming process in each predetermined interval until a reserved job be in a state where the image forming process is startable when a predetermined continuous execution not-feasible condition is met when starting an execution of the reserved job and a display section which displays an execution order of the plurality of jobs which are received by the control section so as to be specified.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an image printing apparatus which prints an original image as image information on a recording sheet and performs postprocessing on the recording sheet after printing operation. According to the image printing apparatus of the invention, image printing conditions include conditions concerning postprocessing to be executed by a punch unit and postprocessing device and selection information of a main tray or sub-tray. The image printing conditions are stored after being set as individual image printing conditions for each image information and linked to the image information. When image printing conditions are to be read out by a page readout unit, such individual image printing conditions are read out together with image information, printing and postprocessing are executed for each image information, i.e., each original image.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to visually recognize a suitable time when an operator should stay at the machine side, even if a reserved job includes a job continuous implementation impeding factor. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section to implement the reserved job; an operating section to accept operations for inputting a plurality of reserved jobs; a controlling section to extract a specific reserved job, which includes the job continuous implementation impeding factor, from the plurality of reserved jobs inputted through the operating section, so as to set discrimination information representing the job continuous implementation impeding factor into the specific reserved job; and a displaying section to display the specific reserved job to which the discrimination information is set and other reserved jobs to which the discrimination information is not set, on the same screen in a synopsis manner.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a storage unit which stores job data of a reserved job, an image forming unit which executes an image forming based on the job data of the reserved job, a paper feeding unit which stores a paper to be supplied to the image forming unit, a display unit, a control unit which determines whether a type of a paper to be used in the reserved job is different from a type of a paper which is stored in the paper feeding unit or not, and allows the display unit display a job scheduling screen for displaying reservation information indicating a time required for an execution of the reserved job by including a predetermined notification when the control unit determines that the type of the paper to be used in the reserved job is different from the type of the paper which is stored in the paper feeding unit.

Abstract: This invention provides an image printing apparatus including a communication unit which communicatively connects to at least another image printing apparatus, a tandem output mode, a paper feed unit which feeds recording sheets, a comparison and determination unit which compares the information of recording sheets which can be fed from the paper feed unit with paper size information and paper type information in another image printing apparatus which has received by the communication unit in the tandem output mode, and determines a paper size match/mismatch and a paper type match/mismatch, and a mismatch notification unit which notifies a mismatch when one or both of the paper size and the paper type exhibits a mismatch upon receiving a determination result from the comparison and determination unit.

Abstract: This invention provides a booklet making method including a cutting size setting step of setting a cutting size on the basis of a difference amount between a layout position of an image when a layout interval between images printed on a printing medium is minimum and a layout position of an image when the layout interval between images is maximum; an image printing step of adjusting the layout interval between the images printed on the printing medium in accordance with a position of the printing medium upon binding, and printing an image on the printing medium; a binding step of binding a plurality of printing media bearing images to prepare a printing medium bundle; a folding step of folding the printing medium in half; and a cutting step of cutting an edge of the printing medium bundle on the basis of the cutting size.