US 12,098,051 B2
Image forming apparatus, printing method, and computer-readable recording medium that has stored control program
Satoshi Ogata, Hachioji (JP); Yumiko Izumiya, Hachioji (JP); Kazutoshi Yoshimura, Hino (JP); Hiroyuki Maruyama, Toyokawa (JP); Masashi Sugano, Hachioji (JP); and Tsuyoshi Yoneyama, Hachioji (JP)
Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/455,115.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-203424 (JP), filed on Dec. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0177257 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 43/08 (2006.01); B65H 29/60 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 43/08 (2013.01) [B65H 29/60 (2013.01); B65H 2511/13 (2013.01); B65H 2511/135 (2013.01); B65H 2553/27 (2013.01); B65H 2557/242 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
an image former that forms an image on a recording medium conveyed on a conveyance path; and
a processor that controls image formation on the recording medium by:
acquiring, with a sensor, first information on a first paper characteristic of the recording medium without classifying the first information to any paper kind,
after acquiring the first information, acquiring, with the sensor, second information on a second paper characteristic of the recording medium without classifying the second information to any paper kind, and
determining a parameter for controlling the image formation and conveyance of the recording medium based on a difference between the first information and the second information and controlling the image formation based on the parameter.