Electrophotography – Control of electrophotography process – Responsive to number of copies or passage of time
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-16
2008-10-21
Gray, David M (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Control of electrophotography process
Responsive to number of copies or passage of time
C399S009000, C358S406000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07440706
ABSTRACT:
An image formation apparatus comprises: an automatic adjustment unit for automatic adjustment of the apparatus; a job queuing unit for queuing image formation jobs; a counting unit for counting the number of pages from the previous automatic adjustment, for each automatic adjustment item; a determining unit for determining whether the number of image formation pages for automatic adjustment will be reached during execution of the image formation queued job; and a control unit wherein, in the event that the determining unit determines that the number of image formation pages for automatic adjustment will be reached during execution of the image formation job queued by the job queuing unit, automatic adjustment is performed before starting executing of the image formation queued job even though the number of image formation pages counted by the counting unit has not reached the number for the automatic adjustment is to be performed.
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Fukushi Kenji
Hashimoto Tatsuaki
Mizuno Yoshio
Moriyama Tsuyoshi
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Fitzpatrick ,Cella, Harper & Scinto
Gray David M
Wong Joseph S.
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