An image forming device includes a device main body including a conveying path of a sheet, a fixing unit configured to fix an image formed on the sheet onto the sheet, the fixing unit including a heating rotor, and a pressure rotor in which a nip is formed between the heating rotor and the pressure rotor, a first discharge roller located at a downstream side of the fixing unit in a conveying direction of the sheet along the conveying path, and configured to convey the sheet, a second discharge roller located at a downstream side of the first discharge roller in the conveying direction, and configured to discharge the sheet conveyed by the first discharge roller to an outside of the device main body.

An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor that conveys a sheet, an image forming unit that forms an image on the sheet, a post-processing unit folds the sheet after the image is formed, and a controller that receives a selection including either a first print mode or a second print mode. The controller controls the image forming apparatus to print a document including a first manuscript serving as a first page of the document and a second manuscript which has a manuscript size different from the first manuscript. In response to the selection of the first print mode, the controller controls an orientation of the first manuscript to be the same as an orientation of the second manuscript. In response to the selection of the a second print mode, the controller controls the orientation of the first manuscript to be different from the orientation of the second manuscript.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer portion; a fixing portion; a detection unit that is capable of detecting a deflection amount of the recording material; and a controller configured to control a conveying speed of the fixing portion. The detection unit has a contact portion and a detection portion, and the contact portion is movable to a first position and a second position. The controller moves the contact portion from the second position by outputting the signal for setting the conveying speed to a second speed larger than the conveying speed when the contact portion is located at the second position, and the controller determines an abnormal state when the contact portion is located at the second position and an output time of the signal is longer than or equal to a predetermined time.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer roller, a fuser, a chute, a drive source, a reciprocating mechanism, and a controller. The transfer roller transfers toner to a sheet. The fuser fixes toner on the sheet. The chute is located upstream from the fuser in a sheet conveying direction. The chute is configured to convey the sheet toward the fuser. The chute is movable between a first position and a second position. The reciprocating mechanism reciprocates by drive force from the drive source and moves the chute between the first position and the second position. The controller executes: a first mode of actuating the drive source when conveying one sheet; and a second mode of not actuating the drive source when conveying one sheet. The controller switches between the first mode and the second mode in a middle of a print job.

A sheet feeding apparatus includes a tray disposed at a side part of an apparatus body and supporting a sheet, a feed unit feeding the sheet supported on the tray, a detection unit detecting that the sheet has been fed by the feed unit, an air blowing unit blowing air to the sheet supported on the tray, and a control unit executing a feeding operation to feed the sheet by the feed unit and a blowing operation to blow the air by the air blowing unit, respectively. The control unit is configured to execute a retry operation to re-execute the feeding operation in a case where the detection unit does not detect feeding of the sheet within a predetermined time after executing the feeding operation, and execute a first blowing mode to execute the blowing operation after executing the feeding operation and before executing the retry operation.

A sheet processing apparatus includes: a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet to a loading board; a bonding unit configured to execute bonding processing for bonding together a plurality of loaded sheets loaded on the loading board, with use of an adhesive image formed on the plurality of loaded sheets; and a control unit configured to control the bonding processing executed by the bonding unit in order to create a bundle of sheets from a designated number of sheets designated by a job, wherein the control unit is further configured not to execute the bonding processing with respect to the plurality of loaded sheets in a case where a thickness of the plurality of loaded sheets exceeds a first threshold.

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit that comes into contact with an object to transfer an image to the object, a facing unit that moves together with the object in a transport direction of the object to bring the object into contact with the transfer unit, and a mechanism that brings the facing unit closer to the transfer unit in accordance with movement of the facing unit in the transport to bring the object into contact with the transfer unit and then further brings the facing unit and the transfer unit closer to each other.

A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance roller pair that forms a nip portion and a conveyance guide that is movable between a first position and a second position. The conveyance roller pair conveys a sheet nipped at the nip portion in a sheet conveyance direction. At least a part of a sheet conveyance path is opened in a state where the conveyance guide is at the second position. In a case where conveyance of the sheet is stopped after the leading edge of the sheet passes through the nip portion and before the trailing edge of the sheet passes through the nip potion, and in a case where the conveyance guide is moved from the first position to the second position, a moving operation of moving the sheet downstream in the sheet conveyance direction is performed by the conveyance roller pair.

Disclosed is a sheet processing apparatus that includes: a stack tray having a stacking surface configured to stack the sheet bundle, a sensor configured to detect a height of an uppermost sheet of a sheet bundle stacked on the stacking surface, a lifting mechanism configured to lift up and down the stack tray based on an output of the sensor, a pressing member having a contact portion configured to elastically deform and contact an upper surface of the sheet bundle abutted against the abutting surface, wherein the control unit is configured to, while a plurality of sheet bundles composed of predetermined sheets are being continuously discharged, and in case the sheet bundle stacked on the stacking surface is removed such that the contact portion of the pressing member at the pressing position becomes separated from the stacking surface, repeatedly lift up the stack tray by a predetermined amount in response to a rotation command of the pressing member, in order to prevent the pressing member from being sandwiched between the stack tray and the abutting surface.

A laminating device including: a laminator that performs lamination processing of laminating a film on a recording medium on which image formation has been performed; and a first hardware processor that: acquires sheet characteristic information corresponding to smoothness of the recording medium; and controls a conveyance speed in the laminator based on the acquired sheet characteristic information.