Image forming apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeisuke Aizono
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an input unit configured to receive input of folding unit information specifying either one of a first sheet folding unit and a second sheet folding unit, and a control unit configured to selectively perform a first mode and a second mode based on the folding unit information, the first mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the image on the sheet such that an orientation of the image becomes a first direction, the second mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the image on the sheet such that the orientation of the image becomes a second direction inverted from the first direction.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus being capable of connecting with a first sheet folding unit and a second sheet folding unit, the first sheet folding unit being configured to fold a sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus at a folding position between a middle of the sheet and a first end of the sheet in a sheet discharge direction and then fold the sheet at a folding position between the middle of the sheet and a second end of the sheet opposite to the first end in the sheet discharge direction, the second sheet folding unit being configured to fold a sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus at the folding position between the middle of the sheet and the second end and then fold the sheet at the folding position between the middle of the sheet and the first end, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet in accordance with image data;
- an input unit configured to receive input of folding unit information specifying either one of the first sheet folding unit and the second sheet folding unit;
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- a control unit configured to selectively perform a first mode and a second mode based on the folding unit information, the first mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the image on the sheet such that an orientation of the image becomes a first direction, the second mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the image on the sheet such that the orientation of the image becomes a second direction inverted from the first direction.
An image forming apparatus being capable of connecting with a first sheet folding unit and a second sheet folding unit,
- the first sheet folding unit being configured to perform a first folding process, the first folding process including a first operation for folding the sheet and a second operation in which the sheet is folded such that a portion of the sheet folded by the second operation overlaps a portion of the sheet folded by the first operation in a thickness direction of the sheet,
- the second sheet folding unit being configured to perform a second folding process, the second folding process including a third operation for folding the sheet and a fourth operation in which the sheet is folded such that a portion of the sheet folded by the fourth operation overlaps a portion of the sheet folded by the third operation in the thickness direction of the sheet, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet in accordance with image data;
- an input unit configured to receive input of folding unit information specifying either one of the first folding process by the first sheet folding unit and the second folding process by the second sheet folding unit;
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- a control unit configured to control such that the image forming unit changes an orientation of the image formed on the sheet based on the folding unit information which has been input in the input unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.