Patent ID: 11936826
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 4:
5. The image inspector according to claim 1, further comprising:
an environmental detection sensor configured to measure an environmental condition including at least one of a temperature around the image inspector, and a humidity around the image inspector; and
in response to results of the determining the at least one defect of the recording medium, the circuitry is further configured to,
for each type of recording medium, record the environmental condition in association with a printing condition including a conveyance condition of the recording medium, a fixing condition of the recording medium, or both, changed so as not to cause the wrinkle or the folded edge; and
notify that at least one of the wrinkle or the folded edge is likely to occur on the recording medium in a case where an environmental condition in a print job of a subsequent recording medium of a same sheet type is greater than a desired threshold value to the recorded environmental condition.