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

Claim 10:
11. A computer-readable recording medium storing a control program of an image forming apparatus of a roll-to-roll type, the image forming apparatus including an image bearing member configured to bear toner, and an image former configured to perform printing, on a roll sheet, an image formed by performing light exposure and a development process on the image bearing member, the program comprising:
a first process of dividing a job pertaining to a printing execution command into a plurality of short jobs; and
a second process of stopping conveyance of the roll sheet and forcibly ejecting degraded toner from a developing device of the image former at a pause timing between short jobs temporally adjacent to each other among the plurality of short jobs at execution of printing,
wherein in the first process, a job content of each of the plurality of short jobs is set such that an image of a printing target is inverted upside down for each job switching of the plurality of short jobs.