Image forming apparatus and system for printing sets of documents
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoichi Yoshimura, Shigeru Yoneda
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a first medium supply unit, a second medium supply unit, and an image forming unit. The image forming unit forms, upon receiving an instruction to print document data for a plural number of sets, an image of the document data on a medium supplied from the first medium supply unit up to a preset number of the plural number of sets and forms an image of the document data on a medium supplied from the second medium supply unit for a remaining number of the plural number of sets.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first medium supply unit;
- a second medium supply unit;
- and
- an image forming unit that forms, upon receiving an instruction to print a first number of sets of a document, an image of the document on a medium supplied from the first medium supply unit up to a second number of sets and that forms the image on a medium supplied from the second medium supply unit for a remaining number of the first number of sets,
- wherein, upon receiving instructions to print the document again, the image forming unit forms an image of the document on a medium supplied from the second medium supply unit.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a supply unit that supplies a medium;
- and
- an image forming unit that forms, upon receiving an instruction to form a first number of sets of a document, an image of the document on a medium supplied from the supply unit up to a second number of sets and does not form an image on a medium supplied from the supply unit for a remaining number of the plural number of sets,
- wherein upon receiving instructions to print the document again, the image forming unit forms an image of the document on a medium supplied from a second medium supply unit.
An image forming system comprising:
- a first image forming apparatus that forms an image of a document on a first medium;
- and
- a second image forming apparatus that forms an image of the document on a second medium,
- wherein, if the document satisfies a predetermined condition, the first image forming apparatus forms an image of the document for a first number of sets up to a preset number of the first number of sets, and the second image forming apparatus forms an image of the document for a remaining number of the first number of sets, and
- upon receiving an instruction to print the document again, the second image forming apparatus forms an image of the document.
An image forming system comprising:
- a storage device that stores a document;
- and
- an image forming apparatus that forms an image of the document on a medium,
- the image forming apparatus comprising
- a first medium supply unit,
- a second medium supply unit, and
- an image forming unit that forms, upon receiving an instruction to print a first number of sets of the document stored in the storage device, an image of the document on a medium supplied from the first medium supply unit up to a second number of sets and that forms the image of the document on a medium supplied from the second medium supply unit for a remaining number of the first number of sets,
- wherein upon receiving an instruction to print the document again, the image forming apparatus forms an image of the document on the medium supplied from the second medium supply unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.