Image Forming System Trimming Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image forming systems fail to efficiently set up the trimming device and image forming apparatus settings, leading to time-consuming and labor-intensive processes due to the lack of coordination between the two, resulting in improper cutting of scan images into desired business card sizes without considering the print gap area.
Innovation Solution
An image forming system that connects an image forming apparatus with a post-processing apparatus, featuring a repeat setting part, trimming setting part, and coordination part to determine scan image sizes and trimming settings efficiently, ensuring proper alignment and cutting by accounting for the print gap area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional image forming systems perform imposition without providing trimming area, then the recording medium can be fully utilized, but the cutting out of printed scan images with desired business card size fails
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-calculating and setting the print gap area during the imposition stage. The coordination part determines the print gap area based on trimming device settings before actual printing, ensuring that the trimming area is already accounted for in the image layout. This allows the scanning images to be positioned correctly on the recording medium with adequate margins for subsequent trimming operations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional image forming systems require separate settings for trimming device and image forming apparatus, then each device can be optimized independently, but the setting process becomes time-consuming and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the setting processes of the trimming device and image forming apparatus through the coordination part. This coordination part automatically transmits trimming device settings to the image forming apparatus and determines print gap areas based on both settings. By combining these previously separate setting processes into a unified automated workflow, the system eliminates manual configuration time while maintaining optimal settings for both devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by having the coordination part continuously exchange setting information between the trimming device and image forming apparatus. The trimming device settings inform the print gap area calculation, which in turn affects the imposition settings on the image forming apparatus. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures that both devices are optimally coordinated without requiring manual intervention.
3Ease of operation
If conventional systems do not coordinate trimming device and image forming apparatus settings, then device operation is simple, but the cutting accuracy and overall system efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The coordination part implements self-service by automatically determining print gap areas and transmitting setting information between devices without user intervention. The system autonomously coordinates the trimming device and image forming apparatus settings, calculating optimal print gap areas based on trimming parameters and automatically configuring the imposition settings. This maintains operational simplicity while achieving high cutting accuracy through automated coordination.
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AI summary
Provided is an image forming system in which an image forming apparatus is connected to a post-processing apparatus having a function of trimming. The image forming system includes: a repeat setting part that determines either: a setting of a scan size of a scan image per one printed reproduction of the scan image, the one printed reproduction being to be laid out by imposition of the scan image; or a setting of the imposition of the scan image according to the scan size of the scan image; a trimming setting part that determines either: a setting of a card size of cards to be obtained by trimming a recording medium; or a setting of a trimming area for the cards; and a coordination part that coordinates the repeat setting part and the trimming setting part.