摘要:
Abnormality diagnosing method in which a highly reliable abnormality diagnosis of an image forming apparatus can be initiated immediately following the delivery of the image forming apparatus to a user.
摘要:
Abnormality diagnosing method in which a highly reliable abnormality diagnosis of an image forming apparatus can be initiated immediately following the delivery of the image forming apparatus to a user. A plurality of sets of data of a plurality of types of information related to the condition of an image forming apparatus are acquired for a plurality of electronic devices of the same type comprising the image forming apparatus that serves as the subject for appraisal during operation tests following the manufacture of said image forming apparatus. A reference data group containing all of the plurality of sets of data acquired during the operation tests on the plurality of image forming apparatuses is employed as an initial reference data group for determining an index value calculation equation for calculating a condition appraisal index value. In addition, it is preferable that data for the reference data group be acquired and added at prescribed update timings following the initiation of usage of the delivered image forming apparatus. The acquisition and addition of this data may be performed only for individual data groups comprising data acquired for information that is easily affected by the usage conditions of the image forming apparatus by the user.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image formation processor to perform image formation to a recording medium with a primary color toner and a secondary color toner that is different from the primary color toner, a database to store multiple setting values, each of which corresponding a combination of a mode type depending on the primary color toner and the secondary color toner and a media type of the recording medium and being applied to a process of the image formation performed by the image forming processor, a database retriever to retrieve an optimum setting value from the multiple setting values stored in the database according to a specified combination of the mode type and the media type, and an operation setting arranger to perform the image formation based on the optimum setting value acquired from the database retriever.
摘要:
A method of transferring an image includes the steps of; bringing an image bearer bearing an image thereon as a transfer origin in contact with a transferring objective (onto which the image is transferred) as a transfer destination; moving at least one of the image bearer and the transferring objective in a prescribed direction; and sequentially transferring the image borne on the image bearer onto the transferring objective in a contacting section in which the image bearer and the transferring objective contact each other in a direction in which the image does not pass through the contacting section.
摘要:
A protecting agent-supplying device which supplies, to an image bearing member, an image bearing member-protecting agent for protecting the image bearing member, wherein the image bearing member-protecting agent contains at least a fatty acid zinc salt and boron nitride, and wherein the protecting agent-supplying device supplies the image bearing member-protecting agent to the image bearing member so that the amount of zinc (Zn) present on a surface of the image bearing member satisfies the relation 0.4≦Zn≦2.5 (Atomic %) and the amount of boron (B) present on the surface of the image bearing member satisfies the relation 0.2≦B≦30.2 (Atomic %).
摘要:
The present invention provides an image-bearing member protecting agent containing a fatty acid metal salt, and boron nitride, wherein the boron nitride has an oxygen content of 0.4% by mass to 4.5% by mass, and wherein the image-bearing member protecting agent is applied or attached onto a surface of an image bearing member.
摘要:
A protective agent for an image bearing member of an image forming apparatus. The protective agent is applied onto a surface of the image bearing member and includes a hydrophobic organic compound (A), an inorganic fine particle (B), and an inorganic lubricant (C).
摘要:
An image bearing member-protecting agent including a fatty acid metal salt and boron nitride, wherein the image bearing member-protecting agent contains the fatty acid metal salt in an amount of 60% by mass to 87% by mass, and is formed by compression molding; or an image bearing member-protecting agent including a fatty acid metal salt and boron nitride, wherein the image bearing member-protecting agent contains the fatty acid metal salt in an amount of 88% by mass to 99% by mass, and is formed by melt molding.
摘要:
A protecting agent-supplying device which supplies, to an image bearing member, an image bearing member-protecting agent for protecting the image bearing member, wherein the image bearing member-protecting agent contains at least a fatty acid zinc salt and boron nitride, and wherein the protecting agent-supplying device supplies the image bearing member-protecting agent to the image bearing member so that the amount of zinc (Zn) present on a surface of the image bearing member satisfies the relation 0.4≦Zn≦2.5 (Atomic %) and the amount of boron (B) present on the surface of the image bearing member satisfies the relation 0.2≦B≦30.2 (Atomic %).
摘要:
A protective layer forming device including an image-bearing member protecting agent which contains a fatty acid metal salt and an inorganic lubricant, a protecting agent supply member configured to apply a surface of the image bearing member with the image-bearing member protecting agent, and a leveling member configured to level off the image-bearing member protecting agent applied on the surface of the image bearing member, wherein the leveling member serves as a cleaning blade having a ridge part with an obtuse angle, which comes into contact with the surface of the image bearing member in a direction counter to the rotation of the image bearing member.