Patent ID: 6886900

Claim:
In the context of an inkjet image forming apparatus employing ink droplets jetted from one or more printheads to form one or more images on one or more recording media, an inkjet image forming apparatus characterized in that it is equipped with one or more interruption detection means capable of detecting one or more interruptions of one or more image forming operations; one or more print coverage determination means capable of determining one or more print coverages applicable to at least one of the recording medium or media at one or more times prior to at least one of the interruption or interruptions of image forming operation or operations; and one or more transport altering means capable of receiving output from at least one of the print coverage determination means and capable of, at one or more times when operation or operations resume following at least one of the interruption or interruptions of image forming operation or operations, altering one or more recording medium transport operations in correspondence to at least one of the print coverage or coverages.