Image forming apparatus including a toner waste container...

Details Image forming apparatus including a toner waste container... Image forming apparatus including a toner waste container...

2005-03-24

2008-12-09

Gray, David M (Department: 2852)

Electrophotography

Diagnostics

Cleaning

Reexamination Certificate

active

07463839

ABSTRACT:
In an image forming apparatus includes a containing device for containing waste toner which is recovered, and a near-end position detecting device that detects that the waste toner is at a near-end position in the containing device, and a judgment feature that the waste toner is full based on image judgement means for judging whether the container after detecting means detects that an amount of toner in the container is full of toner, based on image information of an image formed on a recording material and the adjustment by the adjusting means.

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Machine translation of JP 2002-082505 A.

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