TONER CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS BASED UPON HISTORY OF TONER CARTRIDGE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the picture quality of a toner image high irrelevantly to variation in electrification characteristic resulting from the history of various types of toner of a toner cartridge.;SOLUTION: Manufacture information on the toner cartridge 21 is recorded in an IC (integrated circuit) chip 23 of the toner cartridge 21 and read in a control unit 27 by a non-contact IC reader 26 of an image forming apparatus 8. Storage information on a container transporting machine 2 for the toner cartridge 21 is transferred from a host computer 1 to the control unit 27. The control unit 27 brings an image formation part under feedback control so as to compensate electrification characteristics of toner according to the history information on toner obtained from the manufacture information and storage information.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI