摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a feeder means and a recorder. The feeder feeds a sheet of recording paper to a predetermined position in response to a spare paper feed signal instructing the feeding of the sheet of recording paper to the predetermined position preliminarily, and then feeds the sheet of recording paper being stopped at the predetermined position again in response to a record request signal. The recorder records an image on the sheet of recording paper fed by the feeder means through an electrophotographic process. The recorder means starts preparation to execute the electrophotographic process upon receiving the spare paper feed signal. As a result throughput is increased without causing other problems.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus comprises a data receiver for receiving encoded character or graphic information in the unit of a page from the outside; a pixel converter for converting the encoded character or graphic information into pixel information; an image forming device for forming an image on a recording medium based on the pixel information; and a feeder for feeding the recording medium to said image forming device. In the apparatus, the feeder is adapted to feed the recording medium to a predetermined position prior to the completion of pixel conversion of a page by the pixel converter.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member including an image bearing layer and a base member for supporting the image bearing layer; a charging member contactable to the image bearing member for electrically charging the image bearing member; a voltage applying device for applying an oscillating voltage to the charging member; a weighting material inside the base member; and an elastic material between the base member and the weighting material. The elastic material has a hardness not more than 70 degrees (JIS-A), a thickness of 1-5 mm and an outer diameter larger by 40-400 microns than an inner diameter of the base member before it is press-fitted into the base member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable member to be charged; a rotatable charge member for electrically charging the member to be charged, the charge member being contactable to the member to be charged; and a moving element for moving the member to be charged and the charge member in a longitudinal direction of the member to be charged.
摘要:
In a fixing device, a core material of a fixing rotating member has two largest-diameter portions respectively located between a central portion and each end portion of the fixing rotating member, within a region where a recording material of a largest size passes, and the diameter of each core material is gradually reduced from the largest-diameter portion toward the central portion and toward the nearest end portion. The outer shape of the fixing rotating member conforms to the shape of the core material. According to this configuration, it is possible to prevent corrugation and curl of the recording material, and to provide excellent mountability of the recording material.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a feeder means and a recorder. The feeder feeds a sheet of recording paper to a predetermined position in response to a spare paper feed signal instructing the feeding as the sheet of recording paper to the predetermined position preliminarily, and then feeds the sheet of recording paper being stopped at the predetermined position again in response to a record request signal. The recorder records an image on the sheet of recording paper fed by the feeder means through an electrophotographic process. The recorder means starts preparation to execute the electrophotographic process upon receiving the spare paper feed signal. As a results, throughput is increased without causing other problems.
摘要:
A cleaning apparatus for use in an image forming apparatus removes toner, including spherical toner particles, from an image bearing member for bearing a toner image for use in an image forming apparatus. The toner to be removed is a one-component toner having a shape coefficient SF1 of 100 to 120. The apparatus has blade-shaped elastic member rubbing a surface of the image bearing member for removing the toner and is urged against a surface of the image bearing member with a line pressure of 55 to 95 g·f/cm. The elastic blade is formed so that a thickness of a portion, supported by a support member, of the elastic blade is larger than a thickness of a free end of the elastic blade.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus prevents the transfer, onto an intermediate transfer member, of the remaining toner after having passed under a cleaning blade by the small vibration phenomenon thereof induced by the shock resulting from the stopping or starting of the rotation of a photosensitive drum. At the start-up of the image forming apparatus or at the end of the printing operation, the intermediate transfer member is separated from the photosensitive drum. Then, after the start of the printing operation, the photosensitive drum is rotated while it is separated from the intermediate transfer member. Then the photosensitive drum is contacted with the intermediate transfer member after an abutting portion on the photosensitive drum, where the cleaning blade is in contact in the stopped state of the image forming apparatus, passes through a position opposed to the intermediate transfer member, and the image forming operation is then initiated. In this manner, the remaining toner that has passed under the cleaning blade is not transferred onto the intermediate transfer member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member, an image forming unit for forming a toner image on the image bearing member and having a first charge member for charging the image bearing member, a rotatable intermediate transfer member onto which the toner image on the image bearing member is transferred at a first transfer position, the toner image on the intermediate transfer member being transferred onto a transfer material at a second transfer position, and a second charge member for charging residual toner remaining on the intermediate transfer member, the second charge member charging the residual toner on the intermediate transfer member with polarity opposite to charging polarity of the first charge member for charging the image bearing member, after the toner image is transferred from the intermediate transfer member to the transfer material. At the first transfer position, an electric field for transferring the residual toner on the intermediate transfer member charged by the second charge member onto the image bearing member is generated, and a charging area of the second charge member in a longitudinal direction thereof is disposed internally of a longitudinal charging area of the first charge member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member for bearing an image thereon, an intermediate transfer member having a base body and an elastic member provided outside the base body and onto which an image is transferrable from the image bearing member, and a second transfer member forming a nip portion between the second transfer member and the intermediate transfer member, for transferring an image from the intermediate transfer member to a transfer material in the nip portion. The hardness of the surface of the second transfer member is greater than the hardness of the surface of the intermediate transfer member.