Patent ID: 8955962
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B26D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a recording head to eject ink onto a sheet of recording media fed along a sheet feed path; a carriage mounting the recording head and reciprocally movable in a width direction of the sheet to record an image on the sheet on the sheet feed path with the recording head, the width direction of the sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed along the sheet feed path; a sheet cutting device including a cutter to cut the sheet to a desired length and a cutter holder holding the cutter, the cutter holder movable in the width direction of the sheet, a movement area of the carriage overlapping, in a thickness direction of the sheet, a movement area of the cutter holder in which the cutter holder moves to cut the sheet with the cutter; a cutter position detecting device to detect a position of the cutter holder; and a notification device to notify a user of an abnormality of the cutter holder, wherein the cutter holder, after cutting the sheet with the cutter, is movable in the width direction of the sheet with the cutter holder being retracted from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction of the sheet, and the notification device notifies the user of the abnormality of the cutter holder based on a detection result of the cutter position detecting device.