摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for carrying an image, and a transfer medium bearing member for bearing and conveying a transfer medium to a transfer unit of said image carrier. The transfer medium bearing member is able to bear multiple transfer media concurrently. The apparatus includes transfer device for transferring the image of the image carrier onto the transfer medium borne on the transfer medium bearing member in the transfer unit, and a plurality of transfer media capable of being borne on the transfer medium bearing member concurrently, wherein in consecutively transferring the image onto the transfer media of the number not divisible by the maximum sheet bearing number by which said transfer medium bearing member is capable of bearing the transfer media concurrently. The number of transfer media that the transfer medium bearing member concurrently bears at the n-th time where n is a natural number equal to or greater than two, is not less than the number of transfer media that it bears concurrently at the n-1-th time. In transferring the image consecutively as above, the number of sheets that the transfer medium bearing member concurrently bears at the final time is greater than the number of transfer media that the transfer medium bearing member concurrently bears at the first time.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an image, a rotatable recording material bearing member for bearing a recording material and conveying the recording material to a transfer station, the image formed on the image bearing member being transferred onto the recording material born on the recording material bearing member at the transfer station, and a cleaning means capable of being contacted with a surface of the recording material bearing member to clean the surface of the recording material bearing member at a cleaning station. When a length (L1) of a recording material born on the recording material bearing member in a rotational direction of the recording material bearing member is greater than a distance (L2) from the transfer station to the cleaning station along the rotational direction of the recording material bearing member, after the image is transferred onto the recording material born on the recording material bearing member, the recording material is conveyed to the transfer station again.
摘要:
An apparatus for forming color toner images on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum and transferring the color toner images onto a transfer drum, is provided with plural color development devices positioned along the rotating direction of the photosensitive drum and opposed thereto, and the above-mentioned transfer drum of a peripheral length is capable, in the rotating direction of the photosensitive drum, of simultaneously supporting two images of a maximum length L to be formed, wherein a relation:d.sub.p =(2.pi.R-2L)/2>d.sub.s .gtoreq.2r+(V.sub.p /V.sub.s).pi.ris substantially satisfied among the peripheral length A of the transfer drum, radius R and peripheral speed V.sub.p of the transfer drum, radius r and peripheral speed V.sub.s of the developing rollers of the development means, distance d.sub.p of two images on the transfer drum, and distance d.sub.s of the developing rollers in the rotating direction of the photosensitive drum.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a movable image carrier, and a plurality of developing devices for developing a latent image formed on the image carrier. The plurality of developing devices contain developing agents of different colors and are arranged in the direction of movement of the image carrier. The plurality of developing devices are arranged in an ascending order of the visual sensitivity of the colors of the developing agents from the upstream side in the direction of movement of the image carrier, for example, in one aspect cyan, magenta, yellow and black developing devices may be sequentially arranged from an upstream side to a downstream side and operated in an order of cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
摘要:
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus comprising an image bearing member, and a recording material bearing member for bearing a recording material to convey the recording material to a transfer station where an image is transferred from the image bearing member onto the recording material borne on the recording material bearing member. The recording material bearing member is capable of bearing a plurality of recording materials simultaneously at different positions thereon. The images can be successively transferred onto first and second surfaces of each recording material, and, when images are formed on the second surfaces of the plurality of recording materials, during a time period in which an area of the recording material bearing member with which the first surface of the recording material was previously contacted is passing through at least the transfer position without bearing the recording material, a spacer particle layer is formed between the image bearing member and the area.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a recording material supporting member for supporting and transporting a recording material, an image forming device for forming an image on the recording material supported by the recording material supporting member, and a polishing device, having polishing particles provided on the surface thereof and a holding portion for holding the polishing particles, for polishing the recording material supporting member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus comprising an image bearing member, a transfer material support member, fixing means and oil removing means for removing the oil deposited to the transfer material support member.The image forming apparatus selects either a first mode in which, after the fixation of the image by the fixing means on a first face of the transfer material, the transfer material bearing the fixed image on the first face is automatically supported on the transfer material support member to transfer an image of the image bearing member to a second face different from the first face of the transfer material, or a second mode in which, after the fixation of the image by the fixing means on a first face of a manually inserted transfer material, the transfer material is discharged from the apparatus without image formation on a second face different from the first face of the transfer material. In case of selection of the first mode, the oil removing means do not effect the oil removal after the transfer of the image of the image bearing member to the first face of the transfer material but effects the oil removal after the transfer of the image of the image bearing member to the second face of the transfer material, while, in case of selection of the second mode, the oil removing means effects the oil removal after the transfer of the image of the image bearing member to the transfer material regardless whether the manually inserted transfer material has passed the fixing means.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a movable image bearing means, an image forming device for forming an image on the image bearing member, an image receiving material bearing member for carrying and conveying an image receiving material to an image transfer station where the image formed by the image forming device is transferred from the image bearing member to the image receiving material, an image transfer device disposed at the transfer station in opposition to the image bearing device, a discharger, disposed downstream of the image transfer device with respect to the movement direction of the image receiving material and in opposition to the image receiving material carrying member, and operative when a trailing edge of the image receiving material is substantially immediately before a transfer zone by the image transfer device or when it is in the transfer zone, during the period when the image receiving material is conveyed by the image receiving material carrying member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a movable image bearing member, a device for sequentially forming on the image bearing member images corresponding to different color information, a device for transferring onto an image receiving material the images formed on the image bearing member, image receiving material carrying member for carrying and conveying the image receiving material to an image transfer station where the image bearing means and the transfer device are opposed, wherein the images formed on the image bearing member are sequentially transferred superimposedly onto the image receiving material at the transfer station, a discharging device disposed downstream of the image transfer device with respect to movement detection of the image receiving material carrying member, a detector for detecting a temperature and a humidity within the image forming apparatus, and a control device for controlling outputs of the image transfer device and the discharging device on the basis of output from the detector and predetermined data.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording medium, and a measurement unit which measures the density of the image formed on the recording medium. A control unit determines an operation condition of the image forming unit on the basis of the measurement result from the measurement unit. A storage unit stores the operation condition determined by the control unit, and a display unit reads out the operation condition at a predetermined time for display. The control means controls a subsequent operation of the image forming apparatus according to the stored operation condition.