Patent ID: 8699906
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: a first printing apparatus including a first preheating unit that preheats a second surface of a long recording medium before a toner image is thermally fixed to a first surface of the recording medium that is opposite to the second surface; a second printing apparatus provided at a rear stage of the first printing apparatus, the second printing apparatus including; a control device that controls a printing operation of each of the first and second printing apparatuses, the control device issuing the printing preparation instruction when the printing system is in a temporary printing stop state that lasts until printing restarts from when the printing is performed once, the control device restarting printing of the first and second printing apparatuses when the temperature of the second preheating unit reaches the target temperature, wherein the temperature control unit performs control to decrease the temperature of the second preheating unit from the target temperature to the normal temperature, when an elapsed time since the printing of the first and second printing apparatuses was restarted reaches a time calculated based on a length of the recording medium loaded on a conveyance path of the recording medium between the first preheating unit and the second preheating unit.