Image forming apparatus with different recording sheets feeding and discharging features
US6714747B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 22, 2002 |
| Grant date | Mar 30, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 22, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/00827
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
To cope with a situation that kinds of recording sheets capable of being discharged by a discharger are limited, in an image forming apparatus which has plural discharge trays, the kind of recording sheet is first discriminated, it is judged whether or not the recording sheet of the discriminated kind can be discharged to the discharge tray to which recording sheets should be discharged, feeding of the recording sheet is controlled based on the judged result, and the contents of the controlling are displayed.
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