Patent ID: 9104947
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus for performing a printing job and an erasing job, comprising: a sheet feeding unit configured to accommodate sheets; an image forming unit configured to form the image on the sheet in a case of performing the printing job; a register roller configured to transport the sheet to the image formation position at a timing at which the image forming apparatus forms the image on the sheet, the register roller being positioned upstream in a sheet transport direction relative to an image formation position at which the image forming apparatus forms the image on the sheet; a heating unit configured to heat the image at a fixing temperature in order to fix an image formed on a sheet in the case of performing the printing job and to heat the image at an erasing temperature in order to erase an image formed on the sheet in a case of performing the erasing job; a transporting unit configured to transport the sheet from the sheet feeding unit to the heating unit via an image forming unit; and a control unit configured to, in a case of performing the printing job and the erasing job: in a case of determining that the last sheet for the first job has passed through the register roller, the control unit controls the transporting unit to transport the first sheet for the second job to the predetermined standby position, and the predetermined standby position is a position of the register roller.