Image forming apparatus capable of avoiding mixture of prints, image forming method
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorHidehiro Tabuchi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of discharge portions, an execution control portion, and a permission/nonpermission setting portion. The execution control portion is capable of, in a case where a print process is to be executed in a state where there are one or more sheets in a specific discharge portion that is preliminarily set from among the plurality of discharge portions, holding an execution of the print process, wherein in the print process, an image is formed on a sheet and the sheet with the image is discharged to the specific discharge portion. The permission/nonpermission setting portion sets, in response to a user operation, whether to permit or not permit holding of the execution of the print process by the execution control portion.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of discharge portions;
- a control portion;
- and
- a memory storing instructions to be executed by the control portion, the instructions comprising:
- an execution controller capable of, in a case where a print process is to be executed in a state where there are one or more sheets in a specific discharge portion that is preliminarily set from among the plurality of discharge portions, holding an execution of the print process, wherein in the print process, an image is formed on a sheet and the sheet with the image is discharged to the specific discharge portion;
- a permission/nonpermission setting portion configured to, in response to a user operation, set whether to permit or not permit holding of the execution of the print process by the execution controller;
- and
- a notification processing portion configured to, in a case where the execution of the print process is held by the execution controller, notify that the execution of the print process is held, and that one or more sheets are present in the specific discharge portion, wherein
- the execution controller holds the execution of the print process until the sheets are collected from the specific discharge portion, or until a predetermined operation is performed.
An image forming method executed in an image forming apparatus that includes a plurality of discharge portions, the image forming method comprising:
- in a case where a print process is to be executed in a state where there are one or more sheets in a specific discharge portion that is preliminarily set from among the plurality of discharge portions, holding an execution of the print process, wherein in the print process, an image is formed on a sheet and the sheet with the image is discharged to the specific discharge portion;
- in response to a user operation, setting whether to permit or not permit holding of the execution of the print process;
- and
- in a case where the execution of the print process is held, notifying that the execution of the print process is held, and that one or more sheets are present in the specific discharge portion, wherein
- the execution of the print process is held until the sheets are collected from the specific discharge portion, or until a predetermined operation is performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.