JP2018054721A - Image formation device and image formation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect an output object output to an ejection tray from blowing by an air conditioner.SOLUTION: An image formation device 1 includes: a print unit 15 for printing on the basis of print data; and an ejection tray 16 for placing thereon an output object from the print unit 15. The image formation device is installed in a room under air conditioning control by an air conditioner 3, and also includes: a communication unit 17 for communicating with the air conditioner 3; a blowing setting reception unit 191 for receiving blowing setting of air conditioning control by the air conditioner 3; and a blowing setting transmission unit 195 for transmitting the blowing setting via the communication unit 17 when the print unit 15 prints.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and an image forming system installed in a room where air conditioning control is performed by an air conditioner.

  Conventionally, a technique in which an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine or a multifunction machine and an air conditioner are linked is known (for example, see Patent Documents 1 and 2). In the technique of Patent Document 1, an air conditioner is attached to the back surface of the image forming apparatus, and air from the air conditioner is sent into the housing to keep the temperature and humidity of the image forming area within a predetermined range. In the technique of Patent Document 2, since the air conditioner grasps the position of a person in the room and adjusts the wind direction to the area where the person is present, the image forming apparatus can be operated in a cool environment.

JP 2006-110743 A JP 2008-101875 A

  By the way, in the image forming apparatus, the printed recording paper is output to the discharge tray as an output, and the output is stored until the user comes to pick it up. However, the conventional technology has a problem in that it cannot prevent the output from being blown out or dropped from the discharge tray by the air blow from the air conditioner.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the said subject, and it aims at providing the technique which can protect the output thing output to a discharge tray from the ventilation by an air conditioner.

An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a printing unit that performs printing based on print data, and a discharge tray that loads output from the printing unit, and is installed in a room in which air conditioning control is performed by an air conditioning device. A communication unit that communicates with the air conditioner, a blower setting reception unit that receives a blower setting for air conditioning control by the air conditioner, and the communication unit when performing printing by the printing unit. The air supply setting transmission part which transmits the said air supply setting via is provided.
Moreover, the setting which restrict | limits the direction of the ventilation by the said air conditioner may be sufficient as the said ventilation setting.
Moreover, the setting which restrict | limits the air volume of the ventilation by the said air conditioner may be sufficient as the said ventilation setting.
In addition, when the specific air flow control time has elapsed since transmitting the air flow setting to the air conditioner, the air flow setting transmission unit ends the air flow control based on the air flow setting to the air conditioner via the communication unit. A control end instruction may be transmitted.
A confidential document detection unit configured to detect a confidential document by performing an OCR process on the print data, and the air blow setting transmission unit detects the confidential document when the confidential document is detected by the confidential document detection unit; You may transmit the said ventilation setting to an apparatus.
A room temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire the indoor temperature; and a curl determination unit configured to determine whether or not the output product is curled based on the room temperature. When it is determined that the output is curled, the air blowing setting may be transmitted to the air conditioner.
In addition, an output amount detection unit that detects whether the output product is a specific number or more, and the blower setting transmission unit, when the output amount detection unit detects that the output product is a specific number or more, You may transmit the said ventilation setting to an air conditioner.
An image forming system according to the present invention is installed in an air conditioner, a room where air conditioning control is performed by the air conditioner, and stacks a printing unit that performs printing based on print data and an output from the printing unit. An image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus having a discharge tray, wherein the image forming apparatus communicates with the air conditioner, and a blow setting accepting unit that accepts a blow setting for air conditioning control by the air conditioner. An air conditioner configured to transmit the air setting via the communication unit when printing is performed by the printing unit, and the air conditioner receives the air setting from the image forming apparatus. It is provided with the side communication part and the air-conditioning control part which performs air-conditioning control based on the said ventilation setting.

  According to the present invention, the output matter output to the discharge tray can be protected from the air blow by the air conditioner.

1 is a functional block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an image forming system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is an example of registration of air-conditioner information shown in FIG. 3 is a drop prevention setting screen example of the image forming apparatus shown in FIG. 1. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of printing processing of the image forming apparatus shown in FIG. 1. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the ventilation control process of the air conditioner shown in FIG. FIG. 2 is an image diagram illustrating a state in which the air conditioner illustrated in FIG. 1 controls air blowing with respect to the image forming apparatus.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that, in the following embodiments, the same reference numerals are given to configurations showing similar functions.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the image forming system 100 of this embodiment includes an image forming apparatus 1 and a plurality of air conditioners 3. The image forming apparatus 1 and the plurality of air conditioners 3 are connected via a network 2 such as the Internet.

  The image forming apparatus 1 is installed in a room where air conditioning control is performed by the air conditioner 3. The image forming apparatus 1 includes an operation unit 11, a document reading unit 12, a storage unit 13, an image processing unit 14, a printing unit 15, a discharge tray 16, a communication unit 17, a room temperature acquisition unit 18, and a control. Part 19. This is a main configuration of the image forming apparatus 1, and in addition to this, functions such as a facsimile transmission / reception unit may be provided.

  The operation unit 11 includes a touch panel and operation buttons, and is a user interface for setting the image forming apparatus 1 and operating instructions.

  The document reading unit 12 is a scanner and has a function of reading a document and acquiring image data.

  The storage unit 13 is a storage unit such as a semiconductor memory or an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), and stores image data acquired by the document reading unit 12, image data received by the communication unit 17 from an external terminal, and various settings. be able to. Further, the storage unit 13 stores air conditioner information 131 in which the air conditioner 3 that can blow air is registered in the image forming apparatus 1.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the air conditioner information 131 includes an air conditioner name, an IP address on the network 2, and a wind direction set as a blow setting by the blow setting transmission unit 195. Each information of the air conditioner information 131 is registered in advance by the user. As the wind direction set as the air blowing setting, the user previously sets the air direction of the air conditioner 3 so that the air does not blow to the image forming apparatus 1 based on the installation position of the image forming apparatus 1 with respect to the air conditioner 3. For example, in FIG. 2, the air conditioner A and the electric fan B, which are air conditioners, are registered as the air conditioner 3. When the air direction of the air conditioner A is turned upward and the air direction of the electric fan B is turned to the left, the image forming apparatus 1. It shows that the blowing to the discharge tray 16 can be avoided.

  The image processing unit 14 is means for performing predetermined image processing on the image data. In the image processing unit 14, for example, image improvement processing such as enlargement / reduction processing, density adjustment, and gradation adjustment is performed.

  The printing unit 15 is a printing unit that prints image data stored in the storage unit 13. For example, the printing unit 15 forms a latent image on the surface of the photosensitive drum based on the image data read from the storage unit 13, and performs image formation using the latent image as a toner image with toner. Subsequently, the printing unit 15 transfers the toner image from the photosensitive drum to the recording paper, fixes the toner image on the recording paper, and discharges the toner image onto the discharge tray 16. The output from the printing unit 15 is stacked on the discharge tray 16 until the user comes to pick up the output.

  The communication unit 17 has a function of connecting to a network 2 such as the Internet by wireless connection or wired connection and communicating with an external terminal such as a personal computer or a plurality of air conditioners 3 via the network 2.

  The room temperature acquisition unit 18 has a function of acquiring the indoor temperature (room temperature). For example, the room temperature acquisition unit 18 may be a thermometer. In the case of the low-grade image forming apparatus 1, a thermometer may not be provided. In this case, the room temperature acquisition unit 18 may acquire the room temperature measured by the air conditioner via the communication unit 17 when the air conditioner is registered as the air conditioner 3 in the air conditioner information 131.

  The control unit 19 is connected to the operation unit 11, the document reading unit 12, the storage unit 13, the image processing unit 14, the printing unit 15, the communication unit 17, and the room temperature acquisition unit 18. The control unit 19 is an information processing unit such as a microcomputer provided with a ROM, a RAM, and the like. The ROM stores a control program for controlling the operation of the image forming apparatus 1. The control unit 19 reads the control program stored in the ROM and develops the control program in the RAM, thereby controlling the entire apparatus. In addition, the control unit 19 functions as a blower setting reception unit 191, a confidential document detection unit 192, a curl determination unit 193, an output amount detection unit 194, a blower setting transmission unit 195, and a timer 196.

  The air blow setting accepting unit 191 has a function of accepting air blow control settings of the air conditioner 3 via the fall prevention setting screen G60 shown in FIG.

  On the fall prevention setting screen G60, when printing is performed, the air blowing setting of the air conditioner 3 can be performed so that the output object does not fall due to the air blowing by the air conditioner 3. Specifically, “ON” 61a, “Print confidential document” 61b, “Paper curl” 61c, “Output is above a certain level” 61d, “Output” are enabled via the drop prevention setting screen G60. “There is an object” 61e and “OFF” 61f to be invalidated can be set. When “OFF” 61f is set, the air-conditioning control airflow setting by the air-conditioning apparatus 3 when executing printing is not changed. When set to “ON” 61a, select one or more of the selection items of “Print confidential document” 61b, “Paper curl” 61c, “Output material is above a certain level” 61d, and “Output material is present” 61e. Can be set. If the user does not select any of the selection items (61b to 61e) when “ON” 61a is set, “there is an output” 61e is set by default.

  When the “confidential document printing” 61b is set, the blow setting accepting unit 191 accepts the blow setting for stopping the blowing by the air conditioner 3 when the printing unit 15 prints the confidential document.

  When the “paper curl” 61c is set, the airflow setting reception unit 191 receives the airflow setting for restricting the direction of airflow by the air conditioner 3 when printing is performed by the printing unit 15 when the room temperature is high.

  When the output is set to 61d or more, the airflow setting receiving unit 191 sets the airflow of the air conditioner 3 when the output of the discharge tray 16 becomes a certain value or more when the printing unit 15 performs printing. It is accepted as a blow setting that restricts to a weak level.

  In the case where the “with output” 61e is set, the air blow setting accepting unit 191 accepts as the air blow setting that restricts the air flow rate of the air conditioner 3 weakly when the printing unit 15 performs printing. In other words, when “output is present” 61e is set, airflow setting for restricting the airflow of the air conditioner 3 is performed every time printing is performed by the printing unit 15 regardless of the number of output sheets.

  When the “OK” button B62 is pressed, the blower setting accepting unit 191 accepts the blower setting corresponding to the setting of the fall prevention setting screen G60.

  The confidential document detection unit 192 performs OCR processing on the print data, and detects a specific word or mark indicating that the document is a confidential document such as “secret”, “confidential”, “confidential”, or “important”. Thus, the print data is detected as a confidential document. The confidential document detection unit 192 executes detection of a confidential document when “print confidential document” 61b is set on the drop prevention setting screen G60. Since words and marks indicating confidential documents are often written on the cover, the confidential document detection unit 192 may execute the OCR process only on the first page (cover) of the print data.

  The curl determination unit 193 has a function of determining whether the output product is curled based on the room temperature acquired by the room temperature acquisition unit 18. For example, the curl determining unit 193 determines that the output product output to the discharge tray 16 is curled when the room temperature is equal to or higher than the specific temperature. If the room temperature is lower than the specific temperature, the output product is curled. Judge that it is not. The curl determination unit 193 determines whether or not the output product is curled when “paper curl” 61c is set on the fall prevention setting screen G60.

  The output amount detection unit 194 has a function of detecting the amount of output items stacked on the discharge tray 16. When “Output is above a certain level” 61e is set on the fall prevention setting screen G60, the output amount detection unit 194 outputs the number of output sheets per unit time (for example, 10 minutes) when the number of printed sheets based on the print data is integrated. That the output amount of the discharge tray 16 is a certain value or more is detected. That is, the output amount is detected not only as the number of printed sheets based on the print data but also as an output product for the most recent number of printed sheets by another user, for example, being stacked on the discharge tray 16. The output amount detection unit 194 includes a presence / absence detection sensor that detects the presence / absence of an output product on the discharge tray 16 and a full detection sensor that detects that the number of output products on the discharge tray 16 has reached the maximum number of sheets. You may prepare.

  The air blowing setting transmitting unit 195 has a function of transmitting the air blowing setting received by the air blowing setting receiving unit 191 to the air conditioner 3 registered in the air conditioner information 131 via the communication unit 17. For example, the airflow setting transmission unit 195 transmits, as the airflow setting, an airflow direction restriction setting that sets the airflow direction of the air conditioner 3 in a different direction from the discharge tray 16, or causes the air conditioner 3 to stop airflow (zero air volume). ), Or send an air volume restriction setting that weakens the air volume. Further, the air blow setting transmission unit 195 causes the timer 196 to measure the air blow control time during which the air conditioner 3 continues the air blow control based on the air blow setting. When the ventilation control time ends, the ventilation setting transmission unit 195 transmits a control termination instruction for terminating the ventilation control based on the ventilation setting to the air conditioner 3 via the communication unit 17. When the air conditioner 3 that is the transmission destination of the air setting or control end instruction is turned off, the transmitted air setting or control end instruction is not received, and the packet is discarded.

  The timer 196 has a function of measuring the air blowing control time. The air blow control time is a time for the air conditioner 3 to continue the air blow control by the air blow setting transmitted by the air blow setting transmission unit 195.

  The air conditioner 3 includes a communication unit 31, an air conditioning control unit 32, a setting saving unit 33, and an air conditioning unit 34. This is a main configuration common to the plurality of air conditioners 3, and in addition to this, each air conditioner 3 may have other functions.

  The communication unit 31 has a function of connecting to the network 2 wirelessly such as Wi-Fi (registered trademark) and communicating with the image forming apparatus 1.

  The air conditioning control unit 32 is connected to the communication unit 31, the setting saving unit 33, and the air conditioning unit 34, respectively. The air conditioning control unit 32 is an information processing unit such as a microcomputer having a ROM, a RAM, and the like. The ROM stores a control program for controlling the operation of the air conditioner 3. The air conditioning control unit 32 reads out a control program stored in the ROM and develops the control program in the RAM, thereby controlling the entire apparatus.

  For example, the air conditioning control unit 32 causes the air conditioning unit 34 to perform a normal operation in accordance with a control instruction from a user or a management center that manages the air conditioning device 3. In addition, when the air conditioning control unit 32 receives the airflow setting from the image forming apparatus 1 via the communication unit 31, the air conditioning control unit 32 temporarily saves the current normal operation setting content in the setting saving unit 33 and causes the air conditioning unit 34 to The air-conditioning operation based on the air blowing setting from the image forming apparatus 1 is executed. When the control end instruction is received from the image forming apparatus 1 via the communication unit 31, the air conditioning control unit 32 reflects the normal operation setting saved in the setting saving unit 33 and causes the air conditioning unit 34 to resume normal operation.

  The setting saving unit 33 is a storage unit such as a semiconductor memory or an HDD, and has a function of storing setting contents of normal operation.

  The air conditioning unit 34 has a function of circulating indoor air by blowing air, lowering or raising the room temperature, and adjusting the humidity. Moreover, the air-conditioning part 34 is provided with the function which adjusts the direction of ventilation by swinging or adjusting a louver angle, and the function which adjusts the air volume of ventilation as ventilation setting.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 4, the flow of the printing process of the image forming apparatus 1 will be described.

  When acquiring print data from the document reading unit 12 or an external terminal (step s11), the control unit 19 determines whether or not the operation mode “ON” 61a is set on the drop prevention setting screen G60 (step s12). When the operation mode “ON” 61a is set (Yes in Step s12), the control unit 19 determines whether or not “Print confidential document” 61b is set on the drop prevention setting screen G60 (Step s13). Yes).

  When the “confidential document” 61b is set (Yes in step s13), the confidential document detection unit 192 performs OCR processing on the print data (step s14), and determines whether or not it is detected as a confidential document (step s14). Step s15).

  When it is detected as a confidential document (Yes in step s15), the blow setting transmission unit 195 refers to the air conditioner information 131 and sends the blow setting as the blow setting received by the blow setting accepting unit 191 in the registered air conditioner 3. Is sent via the communication unit 17 (step s16). This is because the confidential document can be surely protected from the air blow by the air conditioner 3 by stopping the air blow. Subsequently, the air blow setting transmission unit 195 advances the process to step s17 to start the timer 196 for measuring the air blow control time.

  On the other hand, when “print of confidential document” 61b is not set (No in step s13) or not detected as a confidential document (No in step s15), the control unit 19 sets “paper curl” 61c. It is determined whether or not it has been performed (step s21).

  When “paper curl” 61c is set (Yes in step s21), the room temperature acquisition unit 18 acquires the room temperature (step s22), and the curl determination unit 193 is based on the room temperature acquired by the room temperature acquisition unit 18. It is determined whether or not the output is curled (step s23). For example, the curl determination unit 193 determines that there is curl when the room temperature acquired by the room temperature acquisition unit 18 is equal to or higher than a preset specific temperature.

  When there is curl (Yes in step s23), the air blow setting transmission unit 195 refers to the air conditioner information 131 and sets the air direction of the air conditioner 3 in the air conditioner information 131 as the air blow setting received by the air blow setting accepting unit 191. The wind direction restriction setting to be set to the set wind direction is transmitted to the air conditioner 3 via the communication unit 17 (step s24). Thereby, the air direction of the air conditioner 3 is set in a different direction from the discharge tray 16 of the image forming apparatus 1, and the curled output can be protected from the wind by the air conditioner 3. In this case, since the room temperature is high, the air volume of the air conditioner 3 is not controlled, and only the wind direction is changed. Subsequently, the air blow setting transmission unit 195 advances the processing to step s17 in which the timer 196 is started.

  On the other hand, when the “paper curl” 61c is not set (No in step s21), or when there is no curl (No in step s23), the control unit 19 sets “There is more than a certain amount of output” 61d. It is determined whether or not there is (step s25).

  When “Output is above a certain level” 61d is set (Yes in Step s25), the output amount detection unit 194 detects whether the number of output sheets per unit time is equal to or greater than a specific number (Step s26). When the number of output sheets per unit time is equal to or greater than the specific number (Yes in step s26), there are many output items loaded on the discharge tray 16, and it is easy to fly by air blowing by the air conditioner 3. With reference to the device information 131, as the airflow setting received by the airflow setting receiving unit 191, the air volume weak setting for setting the air volume of the air conditioner 3 to be weak is transmitted to the air conditioner 3 via the communication unit 17 (step s27). Thereby, the ventilation from the air conditioner 3 is weakened to the lowest level, and the output can be protected from the ventilation. Subsequently, the air blow setting transmission unit 195 advances the processing to step s17 in which the timer 196 is started.

  On the other hand, if “output is more than a certain value” 61d is not set (No in step s25), or if the number of output sheets per unit time is less than a specific number (No in step s26), the air blow setting transmission unit 195 Determines whether or not “with output” 61e is set (step s28).

  When “output is present” 61e is set (Yes in step s28), the airflow setting transmission unit 195 sets the airflow of the air conditioner 3 to be weak as the airflow setting received by the airflow setting reception unit 191. The setting is transmitted to the air conditioner 3 via the communication unit 17 (step s29). Thereby, since the ventilation from the air conditioner 3 weakens to a low level, the output matter output to the discharge tray 16 can be protected from the wind by the air conditioner 3. In addition, since it is assumed that the number of output sheets loaded on the discharge tray 16 is smaller in the case of “there is output” 61e than in the case of “the output is equal to or greater than” 61d, the air conditioner 3 The air volume is also set larger than in the case of “output is above a certain level” 61d.

  When “Output” 61e is not set (No in Step s28), or when the operation mode is set to “OFF” 61f on the fall prevention setting screen G60 (No in Step s12), the blow setting transmission unit 195 does not transmit the airflow setting to the air conditioner 3 as the airflow setting received by the airflow setting receiving unit 191. Therefore, printing is executed by the printing unit 15 in a state where the air conditioner 3 is normally operated (step s30), and this process is completed.

  On the other hand, the ventilation setting transmission part 195 starts the timer 196 which set the ventilation control time, when transmitting ventilation setting to the air conditioner 3 (step s17). As the air blowing control time, an average time (for example, 10 minutes) from when the user inputs print data to the image forming apparatus 1 until the printed material is removed from the discharge tray 16 may be set. The air blow control time may be different for “printing confidential documents” 61b, “printing confidential documents” 61b, “paper curl” 61c, “many output materials” 61d, and “with output materials” 61e.

  Subsequently, the printing unit 15 performs printing based on the print data (step s18). Subsequently, the blow setting transmission unit 195 waits until the measurement of the blow control time by the timer 196 is completed (No in Step s19 and Step s19). That is, for a while after the printing with the print data is completed, the air conditioner 3 performs the air blowing control based on the air blowing setting transmitted from the image forming apparatus 1, so that the output matter output to the discharge tray 16 is It is in a state protected from the air blow by the air conditioner 3. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the output material from dropping from the discharge tray 16 or falling apart on the discharge tray 16 before the user goes to pick up the output material.

  When the timer 196 ends (Yes in step s19), the air blowing setting transmission unit 195 considers that the user has removed the output from the discharge tray 16 due to the passage of the air blowing control time, and sets the air blowing setting to the air conditioner 3. A control end instruction for ending the air blowing control based on is transmitted (step s20), and this process ends. Thereby, after an output thing is removed from the discharge tray 16, the air conditioner 3 can be returned to normal operation.

  Note that the air blow setting transmission unit 195 performs the “secret document printing” 61b, “confidential document printing” 61b, “paper curl” 61c, “many output materials” 61d, and “with output materials” 61e. As the airflow setting received by the airflow setting reception unit 191, a setting for restricting the airflow direction of the air conditioner 3 may be transmitted, or a setting for restricting the airflow amount of the airconditioner 3 may be transmitted. , Both settings may be transmitted. Moreover, the user may be able to set which air blow setting is transmitted. In addition, when the “print confidential document” 61b is set, the airflow setting transmission unit 195 may transmit the airflow direction restriction setting together with the airflow stop setting. According to this, even if the blow stop setting is transmitted, the wind direction during the blow stop process can be changed by the wind direction restriction setting when it cannot be stopped immediately due to the operation control of the air conditioner 3.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 5, the flow of the ventilation control process of the air conditioner 3 will be described.

  The air conditioning controller 32 of the air conditioner 3 operates the air conditioner 34 normally (step s41), and does not receive the airflow setting from the image forming apparatus 1 via the communication unit 31 (in steps s42 and s42). No), normal operation is continued (step s41).

  When the ventilation setting is received (Yes in step s42), the air conditioning control unit 32 causes the setting saving unit 33 to save the current normal operation setting contents (step s43), and the air conditioning unit 34 executes the air conditioning operation based on the ventilation setting. (Step s44). Thereby, the air conditioning unit 34 restricts the direction of the air flow and the air volume of the air flow by setting the air direction to a direction different from that of the image forming apparatus 1, making the air volume weak or weak, or setting it to zero (stop air blowing). An air conditioning operation that does not affect the discharge tray 16 of the image forming apparatus 1 is performed.

  Subsequently, the air conditioning control unit 32 determines whether a control end instruction has been received from the image forming apparatus 1 (step s45). The air-conditioning control unit 32 causes the air-conditioning unit 34 to continue the air-conditioning operation based on the air blowing setting while the control end instruction is not received via the communication unit 31 (No in Step s45 and Step s45) (Step s44).

  When the control end instruction is received (Yes in step s45), the air conditioning control unit 32 causes the air conditioning unit 34 to resume normal operation based on the setting saved in the setting saving unit 33 (step s46), and ends this processing. .

  Thus, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, the air conditioner 3 a that is the air conditioner 3 is configured to change the louver 35 from the wind direction α in the normal operation based on the airflow setting when the image forming apparatus 1 outputs the confidential document. By controlling the angle, the wind direction is changed to β (up), and adjustment is performed so that the wind does not hit the image forming apparatus 1. In addition, when the fan 3b, which is the air conditioner 3, is performing the swing operation in the normal operation, when receiving the blow setting, the wind direction is changed from the wind direction α by the swing operation to the wind direction β (left) based on the blow setting. Is adjusted so that the wind does not hit the image forming apparatus 1. Therefore, the output matter discharged to the discharge tray 16 of the image forming apparatus 1 can be protected from the air blow by the air conditioner 3. The discharge tray 16 may be an in-cylinder discharge tray 16 a formed in the cylinder of the image forming apparatus 1, or a side discharge tray 16 b provided to protrude from the side surface of the image forming apparatus 1. .

  As described above, the image forming apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment includes the printing unit 15 that performs printing based on the print data, and the discharge tray 16 on which the output from the printing unit 15 is stacked. The communication unit 17 that communicates with the air conditioner 3, the air setting accepting unit 191 that accepts the air setting of the air conditioning control by the air conditioner 3, and the printing unit 15 execute printing. At the same time, a ventilation setting transmission unit 195 for transmitting the ventilation setting via the communication unit 17 is provided. Thereby, the air conditioner 3 can perform air-conditioning control based on ventilation setting. Therefore, when the image forming apparatus 1 performs printing, the output matter output to the discharge tray 16 can be protected from the air blow by the air conditioner 3, and the output matter can be prevented from falling from the discharge tray 16.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and it goes without saying that various changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Image forming apparatus 2 Network 3 Air conditioner 3a Air conditioner 3b Fan 11 Operation part 12 Document reading part 13 Memory | storage part 14 Image processing part 15 Printing part 16 Discharge tray 16a In-cylinder discharge tray 16b Side discharge tray 17 Communication part (Image forming apparatus side) Communication department)
18 Room temperature acquisition unit 19 Control unit 31 Communication unit (air conditioning side communication unit)
32 Air-conditioning control unit 33 Setting saving unit 34 Air-conditioning unit 35 Louver 61a ON
61b Confidential information printing 61c Paper curl 61d Output is over a certain level 61e Output is present 61f OFF
100 Image forming system 131 Air conditioner information 191 Blower setting receiving unit 192 Confidential document detecting unit 193 Curl determining unit 194 Output amount detecting unit 195 Blower setting transmitting unit 196 Timer G60 Fall prevention setting screen α, β Wind direction

Claims (8)

An image forming apparatus installed in a room that includes a printing unit that executes printing based on print data, and a discharge tray that stacks output from the printing unit, and is controlled by an air conditioner. ,
A communication unit communicating with the air conditioner;
A blower setting receiving unit for receiving a blower setting for air conditioning control by the air conditioner;
An image forming apparatus comprising: a ventilation setting transmission unit configured to transmit the ventilation setting via the communication unit when printing is performed by the printing unit. The air blow setting is
The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting is configured to limit a direction of air blowing by the air conditioner. The air blow setting is
The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting is to limit an amount of air blown by the air conditioner. The air blow setting transmission unit
When a specific air blow control time has elapsed after sending the air blow setting to the air conditioner, sending a control end instruction to finish air blow control based on the air blow setting to the air conditioner via the communication unit. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus. A confidential document detection unit that performs an OCR process on the print data and detects a confidential document;
The air blow setting transmission unit
5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the confidential document is detected by the confidential document detection unit, the air blowing setting is transmitted to the air conditioner. A room temperature acquisition unit for acquiring the temperature in the room;
A curl determination unit that determines whether or not the output object is curled based on the temperature in the room;
The air blow setting transmission unit
6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the output object is determined to be curled by the curl determination unit, the air blowing setting is transmitted to the air conditioner. 6. . An output amount detection unit for detecting whether the output product is a specific number or more,
The air blow setting transmission unit
7. The air blow setting is transmitted to the air conditioner when the output amount detection unit detects that there are more than a certain number of the output products. 7. Image forming apparatus. An air-conditioning apparatus, an image forming apparatus that is installed in a room in which air-conditioning control is performed by the air-conditioning apparatus, and that includes a printing unit that performs printing based on print data, and a discharge tray that stacks output from the printing unit An image forming system comprising:
The image forming apparatus includes:
A communication unit communicating with the air conditioner;
A blower setting receiving unit for receiving a blower setting for air conditioning control by the air conditioner;
A fan setting transmitter for transmitting the fan setting via the communication unit when printing is performed by the printing unit;
The air conditioner
An air conditioning side communication unit that receives the air blowing setting from the image forming apparatus;
An image forming system comprising: an air conditioning control unit that executes air conditioning control based on the air blowing setting.

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