TONER CARTRIDGE WITH MEMORY FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

An image forming apparatus mounted with a toner cartridge having a memory unit includes a toner cartridge which stores a plurality of control data depending on toner in the memory unit, an acquisition unit which selects one of the plurality of control data in the memory unit and acquires image formation-related information and a setting unit which sets image formation parameters on the basis of the image formation-related information.

主权项

1. A toner cartridge for use with an image forming apparatus having an acquiring unit configured to acquire identification data from the toner cartridge when the toner cartridge is mounted on the image forming apparatus; a reading unit configured to read parameter information including image formation process parameters, from the toner cartridge when the acquired identification data matches identifying data previously stored in the image forming apparatus, and not read the parameter information from the toner cartridge when the acquired identification data does not match the identifying data; the toner cartridge comprising:
a memory storing the identification data of the toner cartridge and the parameter information including the image formation process parameters dependent on toner characteristic or ambient conditions, the memory being configured to communicate with the acquiring unit or the reading unit by wire.