IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
To prevent a reduction in image quality due to deterioration of toner.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: a photoconductor drum 1; a developing unit 5 that has a developing roller 6 carrying toner to the photoconductor drum 1, and a toner storage section 17 storing the toner; a toner car...
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Zusammenfassung: | To prevent a reduction in image quality due to deterioration of toner.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: a photoconductor drum 1; a developing unit 5 that has a developing roller 6 carrying toner to the photoconductor drum 1, and a toner storage section 17 storing the toner; a toner cartridge 13 that stores the toner supplied to the toner storage section 17; and a control section 220 that performs image forming processing, toner discharge processing of discharging the toner to the photoconductor drum 1, and calculation of the average printing rate in the image forming processing on a predetermined number of recording materials. The control section 220 performs control so that the toner discharge amount when the total initial toner amount obtained by adding up the amount of toner stored in the developing unit 5 in an unused state and the amount of toner stored in the toner cartridge 13 in an unused state is larger than a reference toner amount and the average printing rate is a first printing rate lower than a predetermined printing rate, is larger than the toner discharge amount when the total initial toner amount is smaller than the reference toner amount and the average printing rate is the first printing rate (S104-S115).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6
【課題】トナー劣化による画像品質の低下を防止すること。【解決手段】感光ドラム1と、感光ドラム1へのトナーを担持する現像ローラ6とトナーを収容するトナー収容部17とを有する現像ユニット5と、トナー収容部17に補給するトナーが収容されるトナーカートリッジ13と、画像形成処理と、感光ドラム1にトナーを排出するトナー排出処理と、所定枚数の記録材の前記画像形成処理における平均印字率の算出と、を行う制御部220と、を備え、制御部220は、未使用状態の現像ユニット5に収容されるトナー量と未使用状態のトナーカートリッジ13に収容されるトナー量とを合計した合計初期トナー量が基準トナー量よりも多く、且つ平均印字率が所定印字率よりも低い第1印字率の場合のトナー排出量は、合計初期トナー量が基準トナー量よりも少なく、平均印字率が第1印字率の場合のトナー排出量よりも多くなるように制御する(S104~S115)。【選択図】図6 |
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