A printing apparatus includes a transfer member configured to cyclically pass through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area where the ink image is transferred to a cut sheet, the transfer member including a plurality of areas that allow printing on a plurality of cut sheets in one rotation. A control unit controls a print head so as to use some areas of the transfer member for the formation of the ink image, and decides, in accordance with a use count of each of the plurality of areas for printing, an area on which an ink image based on print data is formed so as to use, for printing, an area having a use count that is lowest, among the plurality of areas of the transfer member, more often than other areas of the plurality of areas of the transfer member.

The present invention provides a sheet stacking device, a counter-ejector, and a carton former and is provided with: a hopper unit that stacks cardboard boxes; feed rollers that feed a cardboard box to the hopper unit; a first blower device that blows air from above the hopper unit toward the cardboard box fed by the feed rollers; and a second blower device that blows air between the cardboard box stacked in the hopper unit and the cardboard box fed by the feed roller.

A hybrid device for folding textile pieces of a plurality of sizes may include a frame supporting large and small textile piece folding portions. The hybrid device may include a selector configured to operate the hybrid device in either a large textile piece folding mode or a small piece folding mode. The hybrid device may include a large piece sensor beam configured to detect a size and a shape profile of a large size textile piece including regular and irregular shapes and sizes. The large textile piece folding portion may include a plurality of folding devices configured to impart a plurality of primary folds on the large size textile piece based on data received by the large piece sensor beam. The small textile piece folding portion may include a deflector for positioning and stacking a small size textile piece on a small piece draping bar.

A method of producing a film is provided. The method involves a winding step including a point-of-interest detecting step including detecting a point-of-interest on the film, a number-of-turns counting step including counting the number of turns of the film wound around a winding core, and a number-of-turns storing step including storing, in association with the number of turns of the film wound around the winding core, a position of the point-of-interest in a direction of transfer of the film. The method eliminates the need for a step of printing on a film for the purpose of locating a point-of-interest on the film.

A hybrid device for folding textile pieces of a plurality of sizes may include a frame supporting large and small textile piece folding portions. The hybrid device may include a selector configured to operate the hybrid device in either a large textile piece folding mode or a small piece folding mode. The hybrid device may include a large piece sensor beam configured to detect a size and a shape profile of a large size textile piece including regular and irregular shapes and sizes. The large textile piece folding portion may include a plurality of folding devices configured to impart a plurality of primary folds on the large size textile piece based on data received by the large piece sensor beam. The small textile piece folding portion may include a deflector for positioning and stacking a small size textile piece on a small piece draping bar.

A sheet storing apparatus, includes: an inlet section configured to take in sheets from outside of the apparatus into the apparatus; a storing unit configured to mount a storage bag in a storing area of the storage unit; and a recognition unit configured to count the number of sheets to be stored in the storage bag mounted in the storing area of the storing unit, in which the storing unit includes: a holding section configured to hold the storage bag mounted in the storing area of the storing unit; a support section configured to support the sheets stored in the storage bag from below via the storage bag; a drive section configured to move up and down the support section between an initial position and a final position; and a control section configured to control the drive section, based on the number of sheets counted by the recognition unit.

An image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing discharged sheet adhesion while lowering degradation of productivity. A print unit prints an image on a sheet based on a print job. A fixing unit fixes the image primed on the sheet to the sheet. The sheet to which the image is fixed is discharged to a discharge tray. A counter counts discharged sheet number that is the number of sheets discharged to the discharge tray during a continuous print operation. A controller controls the print unit so as to lower productivity that is discharging sheet number per unit time in response to increase in the discharged sheet number counted by the counter and so as to recover the productivity in a case where the sheets discharged to the discharge tray are removed in a state where the productivity is lowered.

There is provided a system that includes a transfer member configured to cyclically pass through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area where the ink image is transferred to a cut sheet, including a plurality of areas that allow printing on a plurality of cut sheets in one round. The system controls the number of copies in one round of the transfer member so as to use some areas of the transfer member for the formation of the ink image, and decides, in accordance with a use count of each of the plurality of areas for printing, an area where the ink image of print data is transferred to the cut sheet so as to use, for printing, the area with the count smaller than the counts of the remaining areas more often.

A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a printing unit to start printing on sheets after confirming that a number of sheets used for printing does not exceed an upper limit number of sheets bindable by a first binding processing in a case where the first binding processing is specified and control the printing unit to start printing on sheets without confirming that a number of sheets used for printing does not exceed an upper limit number of sheets bindable by a second binding processing in a case where the second binding processing is specified.

A sheet processing machine (10) has a device (44) for monitoring sheets (12) and a transfer mechanism (26) for moving sheets (12) along a handling direction within the sheet processing machine (10). The device (44) comprises a light emitting element forming a light barrier in a sheet passage between the light emitting element and the light receiving element. A control unit (46) is connected to the light receiving element and is adapted to register each sheet (12) passing the sheet passage.