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US 2002/0118975 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidehiko Asai
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Abstract
To cope with a situation that kinds of recording sheets capable of being discharged by a discharger are limited, in an image forming apparatus which has plural discharge trays, the kind of recording sheet is first discriminated, it is judged whether or not the recording sheet of the discriminated kind can be discharged to the discharge tray to which recording sheets should be discharged, feeding of the recording sheet is controlled based on the judged result, and the contents of the controlling are displayed.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- plural feeders for feeding recording sheets;
- an image forming unit for forming an image on the recording sheet fed from said feeder;
- plural dischargers for discharging the recording sheets on which the images have been formed respectively by said image forming unit;
- a first discriminator for discriminating kinds of recording sheets respectively set to said plural feeders;
- an indicator for indicating, among said plural dischargers, the discharger by which the recording sheets should be discharged;
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- a selecting unit for selecting the feeder in accordance with said discharger indicated by said indicator and the kind of recording sheet discriminated by said first discriminator.
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