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Image forming apparatus, image forming system, management apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores program

  • US 10,455,124 B2
  • Filed: 10/18/2017
  • Issued: 10/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image forming apparatus which is included in an image forming system that comprises a plurality of image forming apparatuses that are connected via a network, and that outputs a job to the plurality of image forming apparatuses in a distributed manner, the image forming apparatus comprising:

  • a printer; and

    a hardware processor that is configured to;

    receive the job;

    determine whether the received job is a parallel tandem job;

    in a case in which it is determined that the received job is a parallel tandem job, transfer, via the network, data of the parallel tandem job to distribute the job to at least one other image forming apparatus of the image forming system, and acquire, via the network, state information indicating an operating state of the at least one other image forming apparatus to which the distributed job is transmitted;

    determine, based on the acquired state information of the at least one other image forming apparatus and based on state information of the present image forming apparatus, which among the plurality of image forming apparatuses is to print a reference test chart on a transfer medium, and which among the plurality of image forming apparatuses is to print an individual test chart on a transfer medium, wherein the reference test chart is used as a reference for an image formation adjustment in each of the image forming apparatuses,in a case in which it is determined that the present image forming apparatus is to print the reference test chart, control the printer to print the reference test chart on the transfer medium, and transmit an instruction to the at least one other image forming apparatus to print the individual test chart, wherein the at least one other image forming apparatus performs image quality correction based on the reference test chart printed by the printer of the present image forming apparatus and the individual test chart printed by a printer of the at least one other image forming apparatus so as to match image quality of the present image forming apparatus; and

    in a case in which it is determined that the present image forming apparatus is to print the individual test chart, control the printer of the present image forming apparatus to print the individual test chart, and perform image quality correction based on the printed individual test chart and based on a reference test chart printed by another one of the image forming apparatuses so as to match the image quality of the image forming apparatus which printed the reference test chart,wherein the state information includes at least one of a number of reserved jobs and an installation status of a sensor for reading the reference test chart and the individual test chart.

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