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Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, image forming method, and storage medium

US6505017B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 31, 2001
Grant dateJan 7, 2003
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Expiry dateJan 31, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/33314
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

It is intended to obtain outputs of insert sheets suitable for an inserter without delay. Thus, it is controlled to sort sheets on which pages of an image, being the print object in a mode to output the sheets to be set to an inserter provided in another apparatus having such the inserter, of first type in a series of images having plural pages were formed respectively, on the basis of information based on the inserter provided in the another apparatus.

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