Patent ID: 11907594
Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus of a roll-to-roll type, comprising:
an image former including an image bearing member configured to bear toner, the image former being configured to perform printing, on a roll sheet, an image formed by performing light exposure and a development process on the image bearing member; and
a hardware processor configured to control the image former on a basis of a job pertaining to a printing execution command,
wherein the hardware processor is configured to divide the job pertaining to the printing execution command into a plurality of short jobs, and configured to stop conveyance of the roll sheet and forcibly eject degraded toner from a developing device of the image former at a pause timing between short jobs temporally adjacent to catch other among the plurality of short jobs; and
wherein the hardware processor sets a job content of each of the plurality of short jobs such that an image of a printing target is inverted upside down for each job switching of the plurality of short jobs.