IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND PRINTED MATTER DELIVERY SYSTEM

• Main Authors: OGAWA TATSUYA, NAKASHITA TSUNAHITO, FUKUI AKITOMO, HANEDA MANABU, KOSHIGAYA MOTOKI, KUBOTA TSUTOMU, TABUCHI HIDETAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 24.11.2023
• Subjects: CONTROLLING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; REGULATING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an image forming apparatus which can prevent stagnation of processing for delivering other printed matters caused by absence of a user instructing to deliver a printed matter.SOLUTION: When an image forming apparatus 100 receives a request of printing delivery processing from a user U1, the image forming apparatus performs printing processing to generate a printed matter and transmits a delivery instruction set with a delivery destination of the printed matter to an automatic delivery robot 300. The image forming apparatus 100 executes presence confirmation processing of the user U1. In the image forming apparatus 100, the user U1 transmits the delivery instruction set with the delivery destination to the automatic delivery robot 300 when the presence of the user U1 is confirmed, and a proxy of the user U1 transmits the delivery instruction set with the delivery destination to the automatic delivery robot 300 when the presence of the user U1 is not confirmed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】印刷物の配送を指示したユーザの不在に起因して他の印刷物を配送する処理が停滞するのを防止することができる画像形成装置を提供する。【解決手段】画像形成装置１００は、ユーザＵ１から印刷配送処理の依頼を受けると、印刷処理を行って印刷物を生成し、当該印刷物の配送先が設定された配送指示を自動配送ロボット３００へ送信する。画像形成装置１００は、ユーザＵ１の在席確認処理を実行する。画像形成装置１００は、ユーザＵ１の在席が確認された場合、ユーザＵ１が配送先に設定された配送指示を自動配送ロボット３００へ送信し、ユーザＵ１の在席が確認されない場合、ユーザＵ１の代理が配送先に設定された配送指示を自動配送ロボット３００へ送信する。【選択図】図３