US 11,815,850 B2
Image forming system
Koji Arimura, Ibaraki (JP); Naoyuki Yamamoto, Chiba (JP); Kenichiro Kitajima, Ibaraki (JP); Shuichi Tamura, Ibaraki (JP); Ryota Fujioka, Chiba (JP); Yoshiro Tsukada, Chiba (JP); Shohei Okumura, Tokyo (JP); and Takahiro Suzuki, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/968,206.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-173229 (JP), filed on Oct. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0129927 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 8/00 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2032 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming system comprising:
an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording material;
a varnish application apparatus configured to convey the recording material discharged from the image forming apparatus and apply varnish to the recording material, the varnish application apparatus comprising:
a first conveyance path through which a recording material, on which varnish is to be applied, is conveyed,
a second conveyance path that differs from the first conveyance path,
a guide member configured to be controlled to a first state in which a recording material is guided to the first conveyance path and to a second state in which a recording material is guided to the second conveyance path,
a tank configured to store varnish,
a heater configured to heat varnish in the tank, and
a varnish coater configured to apply varnish in the tank to a recording material conveyed through the first conveyance path; and
a controller,
wherein in a state where the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in the tank by the heater is completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a first recording material and applying varnish thereto by the varnish coater is received, the controller is configured to control the guide member to the first state to guide the first recording material to the first conveyance path, and
wherein in a state where the image forming apparatus is in a standby state and preheating of varnish in the tank by the heater is not completed, if an image forming job of forming a toner image on a second recording material and not applying varnish thereto by the varnish coater is received, the controller is configured to control the guide member to the second state to guide the second recording material to the second conveyance path.