Performance for duplex printing of documents
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsUichoon Lee, Gyeonghun Jo, Hyunsoo Song, Hojin Ryu
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Abstract
An example image forming apparatus includes an image forming part, a plurality of batches type sheet-feeding part to sequentially feed a plurality of sheets, and a processor. The processor is to reconfigure, based on receiving a print command to duplex print a document into a plurality of copies, a printing order of the plurality of copies to one print job with respect to the print command, control the plurality of batches type sheet-feeding part to feed sheets to feed sheets according to the reconfigured printing order, and control the image forming part to print the document according to the reconfigured printing order.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming part;
- a plurality of batches type sheet-feeding part to sequentially feed a plurality of sheets;
- an outputting part disposed to feed sheets with image forming jobs completed;
- a plurality of trays;
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- a processor, wherein the processor is to:
- reconfigure, based on receiving a print command to duplex print a document having an odd number of total pages into a plurality of copies, a printing order of remaining pages of the plurality of copies except for a last page of the document to one print job with respect to the print command,
- add a last page of the plurality of copies to reconfigure a whole printing order of the plurality of copies to one print job,
- control the image forming part to print the remaining pages of the plurality of copies except for the last page of the plurality of copies using a duplex printing method and print the last page of the respective copies using a simplex printing method, and
- control the outputting part to output the duplex printed sheet to the respective trays for each copy and output the last page of each copy on the duplex printed sheets, respectively.
A document printing method of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- reconfiguring, based on receiving a print command to duplex print a document having an odd number of total pages into a plurality of copies, a printing order of remaining pages of the plurality of copies except for a last page of the document to one print job with respect to the print command;
- adding a last page of the plurality of copies to reconfigure a whole printing order of the plurality of copies to one print job;
- sequentially feeding a plurality of sheets according to the reconfigured printing order;
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- printing the remaining pages of the plurality of copies except for the last page of the plurality of copies using a duplex printing method and printing the last page of the respective copies using a simplex printing method;
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- outputting the duplex printed sheet to respective trays for each copy and outputting the last page of each copy on the duplex printed sheets, respectively.
A non-transitory recording medium including instructions to perform a document printing method of an image forming apparatus, the non-transitory recording medium comprising:
- instructions to reconfigure, based on receiving a print command to duplex print a document having an odd number of total pages into a plurality of copies, a printing order of remaining pages of the plurality of copies except for a last page of the document to one print job with respect to the print command;
- instructions to add a last page of the plurality of copies to reconfigure a whole printing order of the plurality of copies to one print job;
- instructions to sequentially feed a plurality of sheets according to the reconfigured printing order;
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- instructions to print the remaining pages of the plurality of copies except for the last page of the plurality of copies using a duplex printing method and print the last page of the respective copies using a simplex printing method;
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- instructions to output the duplex printed sheet to respective trays for each copy and output the last page of each copy on the duplex printed sheets, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.