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An inkjet recording apparatus (100) includes a recording head (17a to 17c), an ink collection tray (80), and a detection portion (86). The detection portion (86) has a detection depressed portion (91) that extends downward from the upper surface of the ink collection tray (80), a sensor portion (94) that is provided at a position below a detection height (h1) in the detection depressed portion (91) and that detects contact of the sensor portion (94) with the liquid (L1) flowing into the detection depressed portion (91), and a first wall portion (92) that is formed to surround the detection depressed portion (91) and that prevents the liquid (L1) from entering the detection depressed portion (91) from the ink collection tray (80). The first wall portion (92) has an inlet (95) formed at the detection height (h1) to allow the liquid (L1) to flow from the ink collection tray (80) to the detection depressed portion (91).

A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member, and an entry guide member. The entry guide member has a guide surface. The entry guide member includes a first guide surface portion and a second guide surface portion. The first guide surface portion extends along a part of a circumference of a first circular shape having a center closer to the fixing member than a fixing straight line extending a straight line connecting an upstream end and a downstream end of the pressurizing region. The second guide surface portion continuous to a downstream side of the first guide surface portion, and extends along a part of a circumference of a second circular shape having a center closer to the pressure member than the fixing straight line. A curvature of the second guide surface portion is larger than a curvature of the first guide surface portion.

A controller (100) controls driving of an image forming device (12) to form a patch image on an intermediate transfer body (125). At the same time, the controller (100) calculates a rate of change of a background density based on a reference background density as a reference value of a density of a surface of the intermediate transfer body (125) detected by a density detection sensor (128) at a predetermined detection timing, and the background density newly detected by the density detection sensor (128) after the reference background density is detected. The controller (100) corrects the background density and an image density of the patch image detected by the density detection sensor (128) using the calculated rate of change. The controller (100) adjusts the image forming conditions based on the corrected background density and image density.

A recording head is configured to eject ink corresponding to an image to be printed. A transportation belt is configured to transport a print sheet on which the image to be printed is formed. A cleaning unit is configured to clean the transportation belt. A cleaning supporting member is configured to support the cleaning unit. Further, the transportation belt is hitched around the driving roller and the driven roller. Force is added to the driven roller toward a reverse direction to the driving roller. The cleaning unit makes contact with the transportation belt at a position opposite to the driven roller. The cleaning supporting member (a) is fixed to the cleaning unit and (b) is connected to a shaft of the driven roller such that the cleaning unit moves together with the driven roller and the shaft of the driven roller is rotatable.

An inkjet ink includes: an aqueous medium; and a pigment dispersion dispersed in the aqueous medium. The pigment dispersion includes a pigment and a specific resin. The specific resin includes a styrene derivative and a (meth)acrylic acid derivative and has a cross-linked structure with a cross-linking rate of 25% or more and 80% or less in which a pigment dispersion resin having an acid value of 150 mg KOH/g or more and less than 200 mg KOH/g is cross-linked by a cross-linking agent with a glycerol backbone. The aqueous medium includes at least one of a polyethylene glycol or trimethylolpropane. A content of the at least one of a polyethylene glycol or trimethylolpropane is 10 mass% or more.

An image forming apparatus (1) includes an intermediate transfer belt (21), a driving roller (23), a secondary transfer roller (26), a first static eliminator (30A), a driven rotator (31), a first guide (32), and a second static eliminator (30B). The first static eliminator (30A) is provided downstream of a transfer nip portion (N1) in a sheet transport direction. The driven rotator (31) is provided downstream of the first static eliminator (30A) in the sheet transport direction. The first guide (32) is provided downstream of the driven rotator (31) in the sheet transport direction. The second static eliminator (30B) extends along a surface opposite to a sheet transport side in the first guide (32).

An image processing apparatus (1) includes at least one processor (100) and at least one memory resource (110). The memory resource (110) stores therein a program (114) that causes the processor (100) to perform an ID card scanning function. Due to the program (114) being executed, the processor (100) compares dimensions of a first image of an ID card (300) with dimensions of a second image of the ID card (300), and generates a 2-in-1 image obtained by putting the first image and the second image together, on the basis of the dimensions of a larger one of the first image and the second image. The first image is obtained by cropping an image based on first scanning, and the second image is obtained by cropping an image based on second scanning.

An image processing apparatus (1) includes at least one processor (100) and at least one memory resource (110). The memory resource (110) stores therein a program (115) that causes an ID card scanning function for generating a 2-in-1 image by scanning front and back sides of an ID card (300) to be performed, a program (116) that causes a blank page detecting function to be performed, setting information (112) regarding a blank-page skip function, setting information (113) regarding a transmission size of an image, and setting information (114) regarding whether a layout of the image includes a blank region. The processor (100) generates image data of the ID card (300) when the blank-page skip function is enabled and when a process of scanning the ID card (300) including a side corresponding to a blank page is performed. The image data has a layout that differs depending on a setting of the transmission size and a setting regarding whether the blank region is included.

A connector (11) includes a plurality of groove joints (21, 23) into each of which a wire (33, 34) is to be inserted, the groove joints (21, 23) being aligned in two rows, parallel to each other and extending in a transverse direction x, the two rows being stacked in an up-down direction z. When one of the rows includes at least one vacant groove joint (21, 23), into which the wire (33, 34) is not inserted, and when an imaginary line (K) is drawn so as to pass a center between the two rows and extend parallel thereto, and a position on the imaginary line (K), corresponding to a center of each of the rows, is defined as a center of 180 degrees rotational symmetry, the wire (33, 34) is not inserted into the groove joint (21, 23) in the other row, rotationally symmetric at 180 degrees, with respect to the vacant groove joint (21, 23) in the first mentioned row.

An image forming apparatus 100 includes a printing section 40, a UV irradiation section 30, and a UV control section 80. The printing section 40 is configured to be capable of forming an image by applying ink to a printing base material S. The UV irradiation section 30 irradiates the printing base material S with ultraviolet rays before the application of the ink to the printing base material S. The UV control section 80 controls a period of time for which the ultraviolet rays are irradiated, on the basis of glossiness of a face of the printing base material S, where the ink is applied to the face of the printing base material S.