Image Forming Inspection Setup Verification Before Main Printing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image forming systems face issues with incorrect inspection settings leading to repeated inspection failures and wasteful consumption of sheets due to misaligned or inappropriate inspection regions, resulting in unnecessary recovery printing.
Innovation Solution
An image forming system with integrated inspection functionality that includes a reader, setting unit, inspector, display, and controller to perform quality inspections, display errors, and prompt users to check settings when abnormalities are detected, thereby reducing wasteful printing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If inspection settings are set by the user without verification, then the inspection process can proceed, but inspection failures occur due to incorrect settings leading to wasteful sheet consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs test printing before main printing to verify inspection settings in advance. This preliminary action allows detection of setting errors before they cause wasteful sheet consumption during main printing, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining inspection efficiency and preventing sheet waste.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the user when inspection settings are incorrect by displaying error messages and preventing main printing from proceeding. This feedback mechanism ensures that incorrect settings are corrected before main printing, avoiding wasteful sheet consumption while maintaining efficient inspection processes.
2Loss of substance
If test printing is executed to verify inspection settings, then sheet waste is reduced, but printing time increases due to additional test prints
Solution Approach 1:
The system executes test printing with reduced copy counts compared to main printing. This partial action approach verifies inspection settings with minimal additional sheet consumption and time investment, resolving the contradiction between reducing sheet waste and minimizing printing time.
3Reliability
If inspection settings are strictly verified before main printing, then inspection failures are prevented, but the operation process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs test printing and verification of inspection settings without requiring manual intervention. This self-service approach maintains high inspection accuracy while avoiding the complexity of manual verification processes, resolving the contradiction between reliability and operational simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an image forming system including an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on image data, a reader configured to read the image formed on the sheet, a setting unit configured to set inspection conditions for inspecting the image read by the reader, an inspector configured to execute an inspection of a reading result of the image read by the reader in accordance with the inspection conditions set by the setting unit, a display configured to display an inspection result obtained by the inspector, and a controller configured to control, in a case where the inspection result for a first sheet obtained by the inspector indicates an abnormality, the display to display a message for urging a user to check inspection settings.