Image formation apparatus and method therefor
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaki Ueki, Osamu Fujinawa
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Abstract
An image formation apparatus that includes plural paper feed trays, and when there occurs out-of-paper in a paper feed tray during printing, changes over from the paper feed tray to another to continue the printing, which includes a detection section that detects that paper is added in the paper feed tray, a memory that stores paper feed trays for which the detection section detects that paper is added therein in the sequence of paper being added; and a paper feed tray changing section that, when there occurs out-of-paper in a paper feed tray in operation during printing, selects a paper feed tray in which paper is added in the earliest time among the paper feed trays which are stored in the memory, and changes over the paper feed tray.
Claims5
An image formation apparatus that comprises a plurality of paper feed trays, and when there occurs out-of-paper in a paper feed tray during printing, changes over from the paper feed tray to another to continue the printing, comprising:
- a detection section that detects that paper is added in the paper feed tray,
- a memory that stores paper feed trays for which the detection section detects that paper is added therein in the sequence of paper being added;
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- a paper feed tray changing section that, when there occurs out-of-paper in a paper feed tray in operation during printing, selects a paper feed tray in which paper is added in the earliest time among the paper feed trays which are stored in the memory, and changes over the paper feed tray.
An image formation method for an image formation apparatus that comprises a plurality of paper feed trays, and when there occurs out-of-paper in a paper feed tray during printing, changes over from the paper feed tray to another to continue the printing, comprising:
- detecting, by a detection section, that paper is added in the paper feed tray,
- storing, by a memory, paper feed trays for which the detection section detects that paper is added therein in the sequence of paper being added;
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- when there occurs out-of-paper in a paper feed tray in operation during printing, selecting, by a paper feed tray changing section, the paper feed tray in which paper is added in the earliest time among the paper feed trays which are stored in the memory, and changing over the paper feed tray.
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