Image forming unit
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorRyuichi Sato
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Abstract
An image forming unit performs an image forming process of forming images in sheets whose paper qualities are different from one another and a stapling process of stacking the plural sheets on which the images are formed and stapling them. The image forming unit includes a paper-quality obtaining section which obtains the paper quality of the sheet on which the image is formed in each sheet before the image forming process is performed; an accumulation section which accumulates a value based on the paper quality obtained by the paper-quality obtaining section in each of the plural sheets to be stapled before the stapling process is performed; and a stapling decision section which prohibits the stapling process when the value accumulated by the accumulation section exceeds a predetermined threshold.
Claims9
An image forming unit that performs an image forming process of forming images on sheets whose paper qualities are different from one another and a stapling process of stacking the plurality of sheets on which the images are formed and stapling the plurality of sheets, the image forming unit comprising:
- a paper-quality obtaining section that obtains the paper quality of the sheet on which the image is formed in each sheet before the image forming process is performed;
- an accumulation section that accumulates a value, based on the paper quality obtained by the paper-quality obtaining section in each of the plurality of sheets to be stapled, before it is performed;
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- a stapling decision section that prohibits the stapling process before it is performed when the value accumulated by the accumulation section exceeds a predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.