An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet laminator, and circuitry. The sheet laminator performs a lamination processing on a two-ply sheet with a sheet, which is conveyed from the image forming apparatus and inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The circuitry performs a lamination print mode and a shift mode. In the lamination print mode, the sheet laminator performs the lamination processing on the sheet. In the shift mode, a power supply to the image forming apparatus starts and the power supply ends when the power supply reaches a first peak value and is stabilized during a first start-up period. Also, in the shift mode, the power supply to the sheet laminator starts and the power supply ends when the power supply reaches a second peak value and is stabilized during a second start-up period shifted from the first start-up period.

Provided are an image forming apparatus and methods for controlling the apparatus, which includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to set whether to operate an air blowing fan before a paper type detection sensor detects a type of sheet. In a case where a setting to blow the air is made by the CPU, the air blowing fan blows the air when a sheet feed unit feeds the sheet before the paper type detection sensor detects the type of the sheet. In a case where a setting not to blow the air is made by the CPU, the air blowing fan does not blow the air when the sheet feed unit feeds the sheet before the paper type detection sensor detects the sheet type.

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a developing roller; a contact/separation mechanism configured to switch between a contact state in which the developing roller is brought into contact with the photosensitive member and a separation state in which the developing roller is separated from the photosensitive member; a photosensitive-member motor configured to rotate and drive the photosensitive member; and a control portion. The control portion is configured to determine that the contact/separation mechanism is in a failure state in a case where a torque of the photosensitive-member motor is not detected to have changed by at least a predetermined value within a predetermined time after a predetermined reference timing.

A sheet storage device includes: a sheet storage body that stores sheets and that is capable of being pulled out of and pushed into an apparatus body; a transport roller pair provided in the apparatus body to separate and transport the sheets stored in the sheet storage body, one sheet at a time; and a press-contact unit that abuts against the sheet storage body mounted to the apparatus body to move one of transport rollers of the transport roller pair from a press-contact cancellation position to a press-contact position, in which the press-contact unit abuts against the sheet storage body earlier than a different abutment unit that abuts against the sheet storage body when mounting the sheet storage body to the apparatus body.

A medium conveyance device includes: a plurality of roller pairs arranged in a width direction of a recording medium, the plurality of roller pairs including at least two end-side roller pairs respectively located near two ends of the recording medium in the width direction and at least one center-side roller pair located near a center of the recording medium in the width direction, the plurality of roller pairs each including a pair of rollers that convey the recording medium while nipping the recording medium and are individually contactable with and separable from each other; and a contact and separation mechanism that moves a first roller of the pair of rollers of the at least one center-side roller pair in a thickness direction of the recording medium or moves a first roller of the pair of rollers of each of the at least two end-side roller pairs in the thickness direction of the recording medium, to make a difference in separation timing.

A sheet containing device is configured such that a driving-side reversal parallel axis gear can be separated from a driven-side reversal parallel axis gear, and imaginary tangent lines 1 and 2 of contact surfaces of a driving-side gear tooth meshing portion and a driven-side gear tooth meshing portion at a position in which the driving-side reversal parallel axis gear and the driven-side reversal parallel axis gear are meshed with each other always intersect with a first imaginary straight line 1 passing through a first rotation axis 1 of the driving-side reversal parallel axis gear and a second rotation axis 2 of the driven-side reversal parallel axis gear through rotation of the driving-side reversal parallel axis gear.

An image forming apparatus includes a paper feed unit that includes a paper feed contact portion which comes into contact with the recording material stored in a storage unit, and that feeds the recording material in contact with the paper feed contact portion. The image forming apparatus further includes a separation unit provided downstream of the paper feed unit in a conveyance direction of the recording material, and that includes a separation contact portion which comes into contact with the fed recording material. In a case where information based on a result of detecting the recording material being conveyed indicates that a plurality of recording materials are simultaneously positioned in a notification section, An information processing apparatus gives notification such that a display apparatus displays information regarding that the plurality of recording materials are present in the notification section.