Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasahiko Fujimori
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus, comprises a document feeder to feed a document page by page, a scanner to scan the document fed by the document feeder and generate image data of the document, a printing apparatus to print images on recording media. An interface is configured to receive print settings and a test printing command. A controller is configured to control the document feeder to feed pages of the document according to the print settings when the test printing command is received, acquire image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder, and control the printing apparatus to print images in a test printing. The images in the test printing comprising image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a document feeder configured to feed a document page by page;
- a scanner configured to scan the document fed by the document feeder page by page and generate image data of the document;
- a printing apparatus configured to print images on recording media based on the image data generated by the scanner;
- an interface configured to receive a designation of non-consecutive pages of the document;
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- a controller configured to:
- control the document feeder to feed pages of the document,
- acquire image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder, and
- control the printing apparatus to print images of the designated non-consecutive pages of the document scanned by the scanner, the images comprising image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a document feeder configured to feed a document page by page;
- a scanner configured to scan pages of the document fed by the feeder and generate image data of the pages;
- a printing apparatus configured to print an image on a sheet based on the image data of the pages of the document scanned by the scanner;
- a user interface configured to receive a user designation of a plurality of non-consecutive page numbers of the pages of the document, the plurality of non-consecutive page numbers corresponding to a selection of pages of the document;
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- a controller configured to control the printing apparatus to print images corresponding to the image data of the selection of pages of the document.
A printing method for an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving a user designation of a plurality of non-consecutive page numbers of a document that includes a plurality of pages;
- controlling a document feeder to feed pages of the document to a scanner according to the user designation of the plurality of non-consecutive page numbers of the document;
- acquiring image data from a plurality of non-consecutive pages of the document corresponding to the user designation of non-consecutive page numbers as fed by the document feeder to the scanner;
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- controlling a printing apparatus to print an image based on the acquired image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.