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US 10,306,093 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus that facilitates confirmation of order of pages and image forming system
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorShinji Hayashi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an identification-mark making unit. The identification-mark making unit makes a page identification mark for identifying a page, on a predetermined position of a paper sheet during printing. The identification-mark making unit, based on the page identification mark made in a previous printing, includes a correction/addition mark that indicates an existence of a correction page or an additional page since the previous printing in a part of the page identification mark when a new print output is performed.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a microprocessing unit and associated memory, configured as a control unit for integrally controlling print-executing, scan-executing, and page-order-identifying-mark labeling functions of the image forming apparatus;
- a print execution processing unit functioning to execute printing operations on pluralities of paper-sheet pages according to instructions from the control unit, the printing operations including marginal printing of visually recognizable page-order-identifying marks on the paper-sheet pages;
- a scan execution processing unit;
- and
- a computer processor configured as an identification-mark labeling unit for creating visually recognizable page-order-identifying marks by controlling, via the control unit, the print execution processing unit to print page-identification marginal marks in systematically displaced marginal positions in a sequence of pages in a plurality of paper sheets;
- wherein
- the identification-mark labeling unit is configured to label either a target correction page correcting a given page in the sequence of pages or a target addition page added into the sequence of pages, in a position where the page-identification marginal mark is labeled on the target correction page or the target addition page, with a page-identification marginal mark into which is added a correction/addition mark that makes the sequential order of the correction page or addition page visually recognizable.
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An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus furnished with
- a microprocessing unit and associated memory, configured as a control unit for integrally controlling print-executing and scan-executing functions of the image forming apparatus,
- a print execution processing unit functioning to execute printing operations on pluralities of paper-sheet pages according to instructions from the control unit, the printing operations including marginal printing of visually recognizable page-order-identifying marks on the paper-sheet pages, and
- a scan execution processing unit;
- and
- a terminal device having a print driver for the image forming apparatus, for controlling page-order-identifying-mark labeling functions of the image forming apparatus the print driver including an identification-mark labeling unit for creating visually recognizable page-order-identifying marginal marks by controlling, via the control unit, the print execution processing unit to print page-identification marginal marks in systematically displaced marginal positions in a sequence of pages in a plurality of paper sheets;
- wherein
- the identification-mark labeling unit is configured to label either a target correction page correcting a given page in the sequence of pages or a target addition page added into the sequence of pages, in a position where the page-identification marginal mark is labeled on the target correction page or the target addition page, with a page-identification marginal mark into which is added a correction/addition mark that makes the sequential order of the correction page or addition page visually recognizable.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.