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| 20080205955 | Image forming system and pamphlet producing method - In an image forming system equipped with a small-sized post-processing apparatus capable of producing pamphlets without being limited in terms of the number of sets, a folding device, an interposing device and an ejecting device for ejecting a pamphlet formed by interposing a sheet into a sheet to be folded are provided in the post-processing apparatus. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080298867 | SHEET FINISHER AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM PROVIDED THEREWITH - A sheet finisher having a post-processing section that conducts post-processing on a sheet on which an image has been formed by an image forming apparatus, the sheet finisher comprising: an intermediate storing section in which a plurality of sheets conveyed from the image forming apparatus are superposed to be stored temporarily; a pair of conveyance rollers that convey the plurality of sheets stored in the intermediate storing section to the post-processing section while the plurality of sheets are superposed; each of two drive motors which drives one of the pair of conveyance rollers that comes in contact with one sheet of the plurality of sheets and the other of the pair of conveyance rollers that comes in contact with the other sheet of the plurality of sheets, separately; and a correction controller that controls a rotation speed of at least one of the two drive motors. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090052966 | UNIT FOR CLEANING EDGE PORTION OF RECORDING MATERIAL OR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner image formed on an image bearing member is transferred onto a recording material so as to overflow from an edge portion of the recording material, thereby enabling the toner image to be formed so as to extend to the edge portion of the recording material. To suppress the deposition of the toner in the edge portion of the recording material, a cleaning member for cleaning the edge portion of the recording material obtained after the fixing is provided. In order to make a trailing edge of the recording material come into contact with the cleaning member, the recording material which has passed through a fixing apparatus is temporarily switched back, thereby allowing the trailing edge portion of the recording material to collide with the cleaning member. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090060617 | Image forming system, image forming device, and post-processing device - Disclosed is an image forming system comprising: an image forming device; a post-processing device comprising a sheet ejection tray; and an operating section to select either a producing mode for prioritizing a productivity of an image forming or a loading mode for prioritizing a loading accuracy of printing sheets, wherein the producing mode and the loading mode are operation modes for a series of operation from the image forming performed by the image forming device until a loading of the printing sheets for which the image forming is performed, on the sheet ejection tray by the post-processing device. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090060618 | Image forming apparatus and image processing apparatus - An image forming apparatus forms an image during conveyance of a medium. The image forming apparatus includes a conveying unit for conveying a medium, and a reverse voltage applying unit for applying to the medium a voltage with polarity opposite to a voltage applied to the medium when the conveying unit conveys the medium. An image processing apparatus includes a conveying unit for conveying an original document; a reading unit for reading an image on the original document during conveyance of the document; and a reverse voltage applying unit for applying to the medium a voltage with polarity opposite to a voltage applied to the medium when the conveying unit conveys the medium. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090074495 | Compact image forming apparatus with post-processing - In an image forming apparatus, when a first sheet discharger discharges a sheet bearing an image in a first direction from a proximal end to a distal end of the image forming apparatus, a post-processing device performs post-processing including at least one of stapling, punching, stamping, and sorting of the sheet discharged from the first sheet discharger. After a second sheet discharger discharges the processed sheet in a second direction opposite to the first direction in which the first sheet discharger discharges the sheet bearing the image, a sheet stacker stacks the sheet discharged from the second sheet discharger. A sheet conveyance path is provided between the first sheet discharger and the second sheet discharger. An opening is provided between the sheet stacker and an image reader so that the sheet discharged from the second sheet discharger can be retrieved from the sheet stacker in the second direction. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090087242 | PRINTING SYSTEM, JOB PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - In response to a predetermined user's instruction, predetermined post-processing is separated from a job adapted to cause a predetermined post-processor to perform the predetermined post-processing together with performance of print-processing. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090092431 | Image forming system and image forming apparatus - Disclosed is an image forming system comprising: an instruction section to perform an instruction for an image formation; an image forming section to form the image for paper based on the instruction; a first post-processing apparatus to perform first post-processing for the image formed paper based on the instruction; a second post-processing apparatus to perform second post-processing for the paper based on the instruction; a first reverse apparatus including a reverse mechanism to convey the paper from the image forming section to the first post-processing apparatus and to perform a reverse of the conveyed paper; a second reverse apparatus including a reverse mechanism to convey the paper from the first post-processing apparatus to the second post-processing apparatus and to perform the reverse of the conveyed paper; and a control section to control the reverse of the paper in the first and the second reverse apparatus based on the instruction. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090092432 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a housing; a sheet discharging tray; a discharge unit, provided within the housing, the discharge unit configured to discharge a sheet into the sheet discharging tray; a pressing member, provided at a position downstream of the discharge unit in a conveying direction of the sheet, the pressing member configured to apply a pressing force to a surface of the sheet at a pressing position; and a pressing force changing unit which is configured to change the pressing force of the pressing member against the surface of the sheet. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090129840 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a folding unit that folds a sheet, a sheet storing unit that stores the sheet folded by the folding unit, a post-processing unit that performs a non-fold process on the sheet transported from the folding unit, a path select unit that switches the sheet destination to the sheet storing unit or the post-processing unit, and a control unit that detects whether there is a fold process command and/or a non-fold process command, and controls the path select unit according to the detecting result. The control unit controls the path select unit to switch the sheet destination to the post-processing unit when there is a non-fold process command, regardless of a fold process command. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090190986 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A stapling section staples a sheet has an opening. The opening has a first open side facing a moving direction of a recording medium moved by the medium moving section and a second open side extending along the moving direction. A shutter is near the second open side in the stapling section. The shutter has a first end axially supported in a freely rotatable manner on an upstream side in the moving direction for arranging the sheet at the stapling position, and a second end portion that hangs down toward the downstream side in the moving direction. When the sheet is not in the stapling section, the second end of the shutter hangs down to block the second open side. When the sheet enters the stapling section through the opening section, the second end of the shutter is pushed up by the axially supported end as the support shaft. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090238624 | SHEET MATERIAL INFORMATION DETECTION APPARATUS, SHEET MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND SHEET MATERIAL INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD - A motion member ( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090245908 | Sheet humidification apparatus and image forming system - A sheet humidification apparatus performs a humidification process on a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus in which the sheet is fed from a sheet feeding tray one by one, a toner image is formed on the sheet and the formed toner image is fixed by heat on the sheet, so that the percentage of water content of the sheet does not exceed that of the sheet in the sheet feeding tray. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100104342 | Printer and printing method - Provided is a printer capable of achieving its miniaturization and lightness. The printer includes: a roll accommodation unit ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100119276 | SHEET FOLDING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND SHEET FOLDING METHOD - A sheet folding apparatus includes a fold unit which folds a center of a sheet bundle to form a fold line, and a reinforce roller which moves along the fold line while applying pressure to the fold line to reinforce the fold line. The reinforce roller includes plural sub-rollers which are concentrically coupled to each other in a rotation axis direction, and the respective sub-rollers apply different pressures to the fold line. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100119277 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Disclosed is an image forming system including an image forming device to form an image on a paper and a plurality of post processing devices, and the image forming device includes an ejecting place information informing unit, a comparing unit and a stopping permission information informing unit, and the post processing devices include a determination unit, a permission request unit and an actuation determination unit. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100143015 | Sheet processing apparatus and image formation system provided with the same - The invention is to provide a sheet processing apparatus enabling a piled amount of debris paper scraps in a debris storage box to be detected accurately in a simplified mechanism in performing cutting processing on sheets, and the sheet processing apparatus is provided with an apparatus frame, sheet processing means disposed in the apparatus frame to perform cutting such as punching and trimming on a transported sheet, debris storage box for storing paper debris generated in the sheet processing means, and debris amount detecting means for detecting a debris amount inside the debris storage box, where the debris storage box is supported by the apparatus frame to be able to move to positions between an installation position for storing the paper debris and a non-installation position for removing stored paper debris in an orthogonal direction to a transport direction of the transported sheet, and the debris amount detecting means is formed of a pair of sensors arranged to oppose each other in positions for enabling the sensors to detect a debris amount piled inside the debris storage box present in the installation position in the orthogonal direction to the transport direction of the transported sheet. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100150636 | Sheet collecting method, sheet correcting apparatus, post-processing apparatus, and image formation system - The invention provides a sheet collecting apparatus for enabling sheets to be loaded and stored in a neatly aligned state with respect to a regulation stopper disposed in a tray when loading and storing the sheets on the tray, where the apparatus has a tray means for bearing and storing sheets from a sheet discharge outlet, a regulation stopper for regulating a sheet by the sheet carried in the tray means striking the stopper, a forward/backward rotation roller for feeding the sheet carried onto the tray means from the sheet discharge outlet against the regulation stopper to align, a roller lifting/lowering means for supporting the forward/backward rotation roller to be able to move up and down between an operating position in which the roller comes into contact with an uppermost sheet and a standby position in which the roller is withdrawn above the sheet with respect to the tray means, a sheet pressing guide disposed between the forward/backward rotation roller and the regulation stopper to press the uppermost sheet on the tray means, a pressing force reducing means for reducing a pressing force of the sheet pressing guide acting on the uppermost sheet, and a control means for controlling the forward/backward rotation roller, the roller lifting/lowering means and the pressing force reducing means. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100158597 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes: a punch portion which is capable of punching a hole of a different type in a sheet; a sheet stack portion on which a punched sheet is stacked; and a determining portion which determines the hole type; wherein stack limit number of sheets to be stacked on the sheet stack portion is changed in accordance with the hole type determined by the determining portion. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100178093 | POST PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM USING THE SAME APPARATUS - A post processing apparatus, placed on a floor, and placed next to a downstream side of an image forming apparatus also placed on the floor in a sheet conveyance direction, to perform a post processing operation onto sheets ejected from the image forming apparatus, including a plurality of joining sections to join the image forming apparatus, wherein the plurality of the joining sections include an elastic member. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100189487 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - After a sheet has once passed through a punching position where punching processing is performed, a conveyance roller pair conveys the sheet backward to the punching position. A lateral registration detection sensor detects a side edge position of the sheet in a width direction. When a sheet processing apparatus corrects the side edge position of the sheet by controlling a shift unit configured to move the sheet in the width direction so as to correct the side edge position of the sheet, the sheet processing apparatus sets a shifting amount of the sheet to a value that is a predetermined amount greater than a shifting amount required to correct the side edge position of the sheet according to the side edge position of the sheet detected by the lateral registration detection sensor. After the sheet has passed through the die hole in the backward movement toward the punching position, the sheet processing apparatus sets the shifting amount to the required value. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100196074 | ALIGNMENT MECHANISM FOR SHEET FINISHING APPARATUS - A sheet finishing apparatus includes: a supporting unit which supports a sheet supplied from an image forming unit; a positioning unit against which a side edge of the sheet placed on the supporting unit is abutted; a moving unit which contacts a surface of the sheet placed on the supporting unit and moves the sheet in a direction toward the positioning unit; and an adjustment unit which adjusts a movement mode of the moving unit. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100209164 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - In a post-processing apparatus in which sheets are stacked in a stacker section and arranged to be subject to post-processing, the stacker section is provided with a sheet ejection section which subsequently ejects the sheets one by one or two or more sheets overlapped with each other, wherein the sheet ejection section is provided with a corrugation application member to apply corrugation onto the sheet to be ejected and to change extent of the corrugation to be applied. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100247202 | PERFORATION DEVICE, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The above perforation device is equipped with a plurality of punches to punch holes on a sheet by a reciprocation motion; a holding board to hold the above punches in a line in the width direction of a sheet; a plurality of dies being arranged opposing to the above plurality of punches; two cranks being arranged at a drive shaft, rotate together with the above drive shaft, and being arranged with phases of an angle being displaced with each other in the shaft rotating direction; and two connection poles connecting with the above two cranks and the above holding board, wherein a differential perforation is carried out in such a manner that rotation of the above two cranks reciprocates the above punches, and during perforating cut-outs on a sheet, the above holding board reciprocates with phases at both ends being displaced, and the above plurality of punches carry out perforation of cut-outs with time difference from a punch at either end of the both ends to a punch at the other end successively. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100247203 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus which has a flattening processing unit which presses a folded end of a folded booklet bundle to flatten the folded end, and cutting units which cut and align edges of the booklet bundle, wherein the edges crossing the folded end of the booklet bundle are cut by the cutting unit and the folded end of the booklet is then flattened by the flattening processing unit. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100278577 | PRESSURE REDUCING FOLDING SYSTEM - A device for folding sheets of a medium is provided. The device has a frame; a cam mechanism attached to the frame; a lever attached to the frame, the lever being actuated by the cam mechanism; a first scissor arm attached to the frame, the first scissor arm being actuated by the lever; a pair of first rolls, one of the first rolls being movable by the first scissor arm; a second scissor arm attached to the frame, the second scissor arm being actuated by the lever; a pair of second rolls, one of the second rolls being movable by the second scissor arm; and a crease blade for contacting the sheets to create a crease in the sheets. Rotation of the cam mechanism through a first period of rotation causes the crease blade to move in a contact direction to create the crease in the sheets by pushing the sheets between the first rolls. Rotation of the cam mechanism through a second period of rotation causes the crease blade to move in a retracting direction away from the sheets and causes the lever to move the first and second scissor arms such that the first pair of rolls is separated and the second pair of rolls is separated. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100284720 | Sheet holding device and image forming apparatus - A sheet folding device includes a folding unit that applies a fold to a sheet, and a fold-enhancing unit that performs fold enhancement on the sheet applied with the fold by the folding unit. The fold-enhancing unit includes at least two or more rotator pairs each provided with a sheet holding member that holds and pressurizes the sheet applied with the fold so as to enhance the hold. In the at least two or more rotator pairs, the sheet holding member is provided so that an area for holding the sheet shifts from both sides of the sheet toward a central portion of the sheet along a sheet conveying direction from an upstream to a downstream in the fold-enhancing unit. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100284721 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND POST PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming system that is capable of performing an image forming operation in a post division processing mode and an insertion paper-sheet processing mode. The system includes an image forming section, a post processing section, an information establishing section to establish post processing information in regard to the post processing to be applied to a subset and a controlling section to control processing operations to be conducted in the post processing section. When both the post division processing mode and the insertion paper-sheet processing mode are established, the information establishing section make it possible to establish independent post processing information in regard to the independent subset of the insertion paper sheet. Further, based on the independent post processing information, the controlling section controls the post processing section, so that the plurality of subsets, divided from the main pages, and the independent subset are processed, respectively and separately. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100322692 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying motor for conveying a sheet along a conveying path, a skew detecting unit configured to detect a quantity of skew of the conveyed sheet, a hole punching section arranged downstream from the skew detecting unit, an attitude control unit configured to carry out skew correction by changing tilt angle of the hole punching section in accordance with the quantity of skew, a detecting unit configured to detect the forward edge and the rear edge of the sheet conveyed into the hole punching section, and a control unit configured to control the conveying motor to control the conveying speed of the sheet. During a period from when the detecting unit detects the forward edge of the sheet until the detecting unit detects the rear edge, the sheet is decelerated from a first conveying speed to a second conveying speed. After the detecting unit detects the rear edge of the sheet, the conveying of the sheet is stopped and punching processing to the sheet is executed when the conveying is stopped. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110002722 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming system including: an image forming apparatus; finishing apparatuses; and a conveyance unit apparatus; wherein the image forming apparatus include: a control section to judge which of the finishing apparatuses performs finishing to transmit a judgment result to the conveyance unit apparatus, and the conveyance unit apparatus includes: placement sections, a conveyance path, discharging sections, discharging-section switching sections among which a discharging-section switching section corresponding to a discharging section discharging the sheet is switched, and a control section to judges the discharging section which discharges the sheet on the basis of the judgment result to switch the discharging-section switching section so that the sheet is discharged to the judged discharging section. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110008089 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus which includes a punch portion punching a hole at an end part of a sheet, and a push-out member discharging the sheet by pushing the end part of the sheet where the punch process is performed by the punch portion; and the push-out member discharges the sheet at a sheet discharging speed lower than a predetermined speed from the intermediate process tray in accordance with punch process information (i.e., combination of a size and a type of the sheet and number, a shape and a size of holes) that strength of a sheet end part is decreased by the punch process, and is lower than predetermined sheet strength capable of being discharged at the predetermined speed. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110020042 | SHEET HUMIDIFIER, SHEET FINISHER, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet humidifier which executes a humidifying process to a sheet, the sheet humidifier including: a pair of humidifying rollers each of which has a first surface layer formed of rubber containing plasticizer, the pair of humidifying rollers nipping and conveying the sheet; and two water supply rollers each of which has a second surface layer formed of rubber containing the same kind of plasticizer as the plasticizer of the first surface layer, the two water supply rollers contacting each of the pair of humidifying rollers and supplying water to the each of the pair of humidifying rollers, wherein a hardness of the first surface layer is higher than the second surface layer. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110026995 | INTERMEDIARY CONVEYANCE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - When a sheet is brought into a sheet storage section ( | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110052293 | POST IMAGE TRANSFER FINISHING IN LIQUID ELECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING - In one embodiment, an LEP print engine includes a post image transfer finishing unit configured to alter a surface texture of the toner image on a print medium to a more uniform surface texture. In one embodiment, an LEP print engine includes a post image transfer finishing unit configured to simultaneously apply heat and pressure to the toner image on the print medium. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110058874 | PRINT-MEDIUM POST-TREATMENT APPARATUS - Disclosed is a print-medium post-treatment apparatus, in which a converting guide to guide a print medium to any one of a first delivery path and a second delivery path is operated upon receiving rotational force from a delivery motor for delivery of the print medium. This enables omission of a drive device to operate the converting guide. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058875 | Sheet folding apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - A sheet folding path for performing folding processing on a sequentially fed sheet to carry to the downstream side is made small and compact. An apparatus for performing folding processing on a sheet from a carry-in entrance | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058876 | Sheet folding device and image forming apparatus with sheet folding device - A sheet folding device includes a transport unit that transports a sheet; an abutting unit that abuts an end of the sheet being transported to form a bent portion at the sheet; a folding unit that nips the bent portion of the sheet by a pair of folding rollers to form a fold line in the sheet; a guide member that partially covers the folding roller and guides the sheet; and a position adjustment unit that adjusts a position of the guide member. An exposure amount of the folding roller with respect to the sheet can be varied by adjusting the position of the guide member through the position adjustment unit. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110081183 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a holding portion that nips and holds a booklet, which includes folded sheets, by a pair of holding members opposite to each other, and a pressing portion that enters a gap between the pair of holding members to press a spine of the booklet held by the holding portion while moving along the spine of the booklet so as to deform the spine of the booklet, wherein the pressing portion changes its moving direction along the spine of the booklet and changes the pressing position thereof in the thickness direction of the booklet held between the pair of holding members, when the pressing portion deforms the spine of the booklet. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110081184 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a holding portion that nips and holds a booklet, which includes folded sheets, by a pair of holding members opposite to each other; and a pressing portion that enters a gap between the pair of holding members, wherein the pressing portion presses the spine of the held booklet so as to deform the spine of the booklet; wherein the pressing portion has plurality of pressing members, each having a different thickness in the thickness direction of the booklet, and the pressing member capable of entering the gap between the pair of holding members, and having the thickness closest to the thickness of the booklet which is nipped and held by the pair of holding members is selected among the plurality of pressing members so as to perform the deforming process. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110081185 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a sheet processing apparatus which can perform a punching process while suppressing decrease in productivity, and an image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus. In a third carry-in route R | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110085839 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image forming system comprises a selection unit for selecting a post-processing apparatus that executes post-processing to a recording medium on which an image is formed from among a plurality of post-processing apparatuses, and a selection limitation unit for determining an insertion apparatus whose supply of the insertion medium to be limited for a selected post-processing apparatus and limiting selection of the insertion apparatus. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110103863 | Conveying device, spine forming device, and image forming system - A conveying device that conveys a sheet bundle with a flattened back-face portion includes a first conveying unit, a driving unit, and a second conveying unit. The first conveying unit retracts to a position where no driving force is exerted on the sheet bundle before a leading end of the sheet bundle formed in a flat spine shape enters, and abuts on the sheet bundle to exert conveying force after the leading end of the sheet bundle passes a conveying position. The driving unit moves the first conveying unit to retract to the position and to abut on the sheet bundle. The second conveying unit is positioned on an upstream side of the first conveying unit in a sheet bundle conveying direction and conveys the sheet bundle towards the first conveying unit. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110135365 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MEDIUM OUTPUT METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus and the method thereof are provided. An image forming apparatus including: a main body configured to have an image forming unit which forms an image on a printing medium; an after-treatment unit connected to the main body, the after-treatment unit being configured to perform a predetermined after-treatment on a printing medium outputted from the main body; at least one main body output tray coupled to the main body; and a controller configured to detect whether or not the after-treatment unit is in a possible state to perform the after-treatment on the printing medium when the printing medium is predetermined to be outputted from the main body to the after-treatment unit, and to selectively output the printing medium to one of the after-treatment unit and the main body output tray according to the detected result. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110150550 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet post-processing apparatus including, a sheet receiving section to receive sheets, a punching device to punch sheets; an accumulating section to accumulate sheets; a stitching device to stitch the sheets accumulated in the accumulating section; a sheet discharging section to which the sheets stitched by the stitching device are discharged; and a conveyance path to connect the sheet receiving section, the punching device, the accumulating section, and the sheet discharging section, wherein the conveyance path comprises an upper loop and a lower loop and has an S-shaped conveyance path to convey a sheet from the sheet receiving section to the accumulating section; and the punching device is arranged in the upper loop. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110158727 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS - A control method for controlling a printing apparatus includes printing an image on a sheet by a printing unit, changing a sheet discharge position of the sheet printed by the printing unit, controlling the printing unit to execute a printing operation to continuously print an image of each page contained in image data of a plurality of pages on sheets in turn by a specified number of copies, changing the sheet discharge position after the printing operation is executed, and controlling the printing unit to execute the printing operation after the sheet discharge position is changed and then to discharge the sheets printed by the printing operation to the changed sheet discharge position. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110211891 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A post-processing apparatus includes a second sheet conveying portion that conveys a paper sheet, a movement portion that displaces in a displacement direction that is different from the conveying direction of the paper sheet in the second conveying portion, a sheet edge detection portion that is disposed on the movement portion and detects the position of the paper sheet, a punching processing portion that is disposed on the movement portion, and that executes a punching process at a predetermined position on the paper sheet based on the position of the paper sheet detected by the sheet edge detection portion, and a post-processing control portion that controls the second sheet conveying portion to stop the conveying of the paper sheet when the sheet edge detection portion detects that the paper sheet is positioned on an abnormal conveying path that diverges from a normal conveying path within a conveying path region. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110222944 | PAPER TRANSPORTING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE READING DEVICE AND POST-PROCESSING DEVICE - A paper transporting device includes a driving roller member, a driven roller member, a first guiding member and a second guiding member. The driving roller member is rotated. The driven roller member is rotated in contact with the driving roller member. The first guiding member is disposed on a driving roller member side, and guides a paper to a contact portion in which the driving roller member and the driven roller member are in contact with each other. The second guiding member is disposed on a driven roller member side, and guides the paper to the contact portion. The second guiding member partially protrudes inward in a radial direction of the driving roller member from an outer peripheral surface of the driving roller member at a downstream side in a paper transporting direction of the contact portion. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110268485 | FOLDING METHOD FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS - Methods are provided for folding a receiver having a dry toner thermally fused thereon. In one aspect, water is applied along a fold line. The receiver is folded along the fold line. The folding is performed after a predetermined absorption period during which at least a portion of the applied water is absorbed by the receiver to reduce the extent to which the receiver cracks proximate to the fold line during folding. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120020715 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus may include an image forming unit, a stacking unit, a control unit, and an alignment unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a recording material having a type. The stacking unit stacks the recording material on which the image formation is formed by the image forming unit. The control unit sets a predetermined number of sheets to a number that corresponds to the type of the recording material. The alignment unit aligns the recording material if the predetermined number of sheets of the recording material is stacked by the stacking unit. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120063830 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The post-processing device which performs a post-processing operation for a discharged printing medium with an image formed thereon, includes: an image forming unit which forms an image on the printing medium; a medium feeding unit which feeds the printing medium to the image forming unit; a discharging unit which is provided in the post-processing device and discharges the printing medium with the image formed thereon; a medium alignment unit which aligns the printing medium for post-processing for the discharged printing medium; a user interface unit which receives an instruction form a user; and a control unit which controls a width of the medium alignment unit to correspond to a width of the discharged printing medium based on a setting value for the medium feeding unit, which is input through the user interface unit, when the size of the printing medium loaded on the medium feeding unit is not detected. With this configuration, it is possible to control a width of a medium alignment unit for post-processing using a setting value set for a multipurpose cassette having no size sensor, so that printing media having different sizes can be properly aligned. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120134728 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POST-PROCESSING DEVICE - A copy machine | 05-31-2012 |
| 20130142557 | DRIVE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, POST-PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A drive transmission system includes a drive source and a gear. The drive source includes a rotating shaft, a magnet supported by the rotating shaft, and plural electromagnets. The plural electromagnets are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, and surround the magnet. The drive source drives the rotating shaft to rotate by a predetermined rotation angle by exciting at least one of the plural electromagnets in accordance with an input of an input signal and by periodically changing a magnetic pole to which each of the plural electromagnets is excited in response to an input of the input signal. The gear is supported by the rotating shaft. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130272765 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing control device includes a data acquiring unit configured to acquire gloss-control plane data that indicates a plurality of types of surface effects to be applied to one page of a recording medium and areas to which the respective types of surface effects are to be applied in the one page of the recording medium. The types of surface effects correspond respectively to a plurality of types of post-processing that are incapable of being simultaneously performed on the one page of the recording medium by a post-processing device that performs post-processing for a clear toner transferred onto the recording medium. The printing control device also includes a determining unit configured to determine one of the types of post-processing to be preferentially performed on the one page of the recording medium, based on priority information that indicates which type of post-processing is to be preferentially performed. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20140023417 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT DISCHARGES SHEETS TO POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus that has a post-processing apparatus connected thereto and is capable of achieving the same level of improvement of sheet output productivity without buffering as that achieved with buffering, and an image forming system. The image forming apparatus includes sheet feeders containing sheets and a printer which forms an image on a sheet. The post-processing apparatus performs post processing on the sheets on which image formation has been performed. When double-sided printing for forming images on both sides of a sheet is performed for a plurality of sheets, a sheet circulation method in double-sided printing is selected between “alternate circulation” and “block circulation” according to information of post processing to be performed on the sheets, which is designated in a print job. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140044468 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND POST-PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image forming system including a feed tray, a printer unit, a first post-processing unit that performs first post-processing accompanying at least a change in a sheet size, a second post-processing unit that performs second post-processing other than the first post-processing, and a control unit that controls setting and performing feeding, outputting, and the post-processing of the sheet. In a case where the first post-processing and the second post-processing are set, the control unit acquires a feeding sheet size of a sheet fed from the feed tray, calculates a sheet size after the first post-processing based on the acquired feeding sheet size, and determines whether the set post-processings can be performed based on the calculated sheet size and a sheet size that can be processed by the second post-processing. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140093298 | PUNCHING APPARATUS, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A post-processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a punching apparatus that has: a punching blade; an orthogonal direction movement portion that moves the punching blade in an orthogonal direction; a converting mechanism that converts rotational movement of a rotation member in a first rotation direction to reciprocating movement; a rotation driving portion that drives rotation of the rotation member; a rotation driving control portion; and an orthogonal direction movement control portion. The rotation driving control portion controls the rotation driving portion so as to move the punching blade toward a punching reference position when a reference position detection portion determines that the punching blade has moved beyond the punching reference position toward a through hole punching position, in a case where the punching blade is controlled so as to stop at the punching reference position. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140147184 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes: a folding processing unit that folds a sheet by reversely rotating a second conveying member in a condition in which the sheet is held by a first and the second conveying members; a calculating unit that calculates an amount of deflection of the sheet held by the first and second conveying members from timings at which the sheet is detected by first and second detecting units disposed upstream of the first conveying member and downstream of the second conveying member and a distance between disposed positions of the first and second detecting units; and a control unit that sets, from the calculated amount of deflection of the sheet, an amount of conveyance for the first conveying member in a direction opposite to a sheet conveying direction in a condition in which the sheet is held by the first and second conveying members. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140147185 | RECORDING MATERIAL POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MATERIAL PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - The recording material post-processing device includes a post-processing mechanism, and additional post-processing mechanism and a transport control unit. The post-processing mechanism performs a post-process for a recording material transported from one branched transport path of an image forming device. The additional post-processing mechanism performs an additional post-process other than the post-process performed by the post-processing mechanism for the recording material transported from the other branched transport path of the image forming device. The transport control unit controls transport of the recording material such that the post-process using the post-processing mechanism is performed after the post-process using the additional post-processing mechanism is performed. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140369731 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention aims to shift a printing apparatus to a job processable state by releasing a manual stapling mode in response to an execution instruction of a predetermined job requested by a user. To achieve this, a control method of the printing apparatus comprises: printing an image on a sheet by executing a job; transporting the sheet on which the image was printed, to a post-processing apparatus; causing the post-processing apparatus to perform a post-process; shifting the printing apparatus to a mode of permitting to perform the post-process to the sheet inserted by a user; and controlling, in a case where an execution request of the job is newly accepted, to release the mode according to a kind of the job. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150037080 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR APPLYING POST PROCESS TO SHEET - A sheet processing apparatus that is capable of setting a sheet conveyance distance from a first detection to a second detection according to a sheet length. A sensor unit on which first and second sensors are arranged in a sheet width direction to detect a side end of a sheet in the sheet width direction. A moving unit moves the sensor unit in the sheet width direction. A setting unit sets up a second movement speed based on the sheet length obtained. A control unit controls the moving unit so as to move the sensor unit at a first movement speed, and so as to move the sensor unit at the second movement speed until the end section is detected by the second sensor after the side end is detected by the first sensor. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150043955 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, multiple post-press apparatuses, a transport unit, and a recognition unit. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium. Multiple post-press apparatuses are connected to the image forming apparatus in series and perform processing on the recording medium. The transport unit transports the recording medium in the post-press apparatuses. The recognition unit recognizes an order in which the post-press apparatuses are connected, on the basis of a detection signal from a detector detecting the recording medium on a transport path of the recording medium in each of the post-press apparatuses. The detection signal is output when the transport unit transports the recording medium. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150050060 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided including an image forming unit configured to form an image on a print medium, and a printed medium post-processing unit configured to receive and post-process printed media on which an image forming process is completed from the image forming unit. The printed medium post-processing unit selectively comprises one of a first stacker module in which a first amount of post-processed printed media is able to be loaded, and a second stacker module in which a second amount of post-processed printed media is able to be loaded. Therefore, it may be possible to flexibly respond to a loading amount of the printed media necessary for the printed medium post-processing unit. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150125198 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveying apparatus with a belt having a cutaway portion at least at one end portion in a width direction orthogonal to a traveling direction and a thickness direction thereof, a claw member and a driving portion driving the belt. The claw member has a pinching portion configured to attach the claw member to the belt by pinching the belt. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150309461 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes: a conveyance unit provided to convey a long medium provided with conveyance indexes at a predetermined conveyance index spacing; a print unit provided to perform printing on the medium; a cutter unit provided to cut the medium; an index detector provided to detect the conveyance indexes; a print controller configured to drive the print unit to perform printing in response to detection of the conveyance indexes; a cut controller configured to cause the cutter unit to cut the medium in response to detection of the conveyance indexes; and a conveyance controller configured to form a slack in the medium by driving the conveyance unit. The print controller performs printing based on a virtual conveyance index when the medium having the slack is cut. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150309464 | SHEET PUNCHING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - This sheet punching device includes a placement table | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150370211 | SHEET MOISTURIZING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet moisturizing apparatus includes a moisturizing section, a water feeding section and a control section. The moisturizing section includes a pair of moisturizing rollers that moisturizes a sheet and a driver that rotates the pair of moisturizing rollers. The water feeding section feeds water to an outer peripheral surface of the pair of moisturizing rollers. The control section controls the water feeding section to feed water only to a predetermined part of the outer peripheral surface of at least one of the pair of moisturizing rollers, and thereafter allows the rotating pair of moisturizing rollers to pinch the sheet so as to bring the predetermined part into contact with a sheet finishing area of the sheet. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160054696 | POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A post-processing device for applying a post-process to a sheet fed from a device of a preceding stage is provided. The post-processing device includes a holding tray; an alignment mechanism; an output mechanism; and a control unit. In the case where a first sheet and a second sheet are different in size, the control unit performs a control in such a manner that, when the first sheet is fed, the alignment mechanism or the output mechanism shifts the first sheet to match the side edge of the first sheet and the side edge of the second sheet to be fed following the first sheet, and that, after the second sheet is fed, the output mechanism outputs the sheet bundle. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160062297 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A sheet post-processing device for post-processing of a recording sheet ejected from an image forming device in an ejection direction, the sheet post-processing device including: a first tray on which the recording sheet is placed after ejection; a push-out member that pushes out, in a push-out direction different from the ejection direction, the recording sheet placed on the first tray; and a guide member adjacent to an ejection direction downstream end of the first tray, the guide member supporting a portion of the recording sheet that protrudes from the first tray in the ejection direction. The guide member includes a resistive force reduction unit that reduces a resistive force that occurs due to contact between the guide member and the recording sheet, the resistive force hindering the pushing out of the recording sheet when the push-out member pushes out the recording sheet. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160091856 | PUNCHING DEVICE, PAPER SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A punching device includes: a punching member opens a punch hole on a sheet material on a die plate by penetrating a die hole provided to the die plate; a discharging member discharges static electricity charged on a punching chip generated by opening of the punch hole when the punching chip is guided to fall on the discharging member arranged on a lower side of the die hole and brought into contact with the discharging member; and a pressing member that presses the punching chip on the discharging member against the discharging member. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160161895 | LABEL PRINTER - The provided is an electrographic type label printer to properly supply a roll paper to the printer, having a transfer portion of a toner image, a fixing portion, an unwinder that feeds a roll paper, a rewinder that takes up the roll paper, a conveyance mechanism, and slack detection sensors that detect a slack degree of a medium between the transfer portion and the fixing portion. The conveyance mechanism has a conveyance belt to be rotated while mounting the medium on an upper surface facing the upper side, and an intake mechanism for tightly fitting the medium to the upper surface of the conveyance mechanism. When selecting a mode to convey the roll paper, a paper feed unit controller controls passing speed at which the medium passes through a pass-through portion provided in the fixing portion in accordance with output signals from the slack detection sensors. | 06-09-2016 |
