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Image formation apparatus and image formation system

US6330422A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 31, 2000
Grant dateDec 11, 2001
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Expiry dateJan 31, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/3248
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an image formation system which includes a finisher with an inserter having a tray for stacking a specific sheet on which an image such as a cover image was formed, and an image formation apparatus, a series of originals composed of plural pages is read from its first page in order, the image based on the read original is formed on the sheet, the sheet stacked on the inserter is fed, the sheet from the inserter is reversed to set its image-formed face facedown, and the sheet from a printer unit is reversed to set its image-formed face facedown. The sheet, the image-formed face of which was reversed facedown, is discharged from the printer unit to the finisher and, on the finisher, the sheet from the inserter is stacked as keeping its image-formed face facedown and the sheet from the printer unit is stacked as keeping its image-formed face facedown.

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