Image forming apparatus, image forming method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJunichi Mori
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises a printing unit that performs a double-sided print for a plurality of pages and a deletion unit that deletes data of a page that the printing unit prints. The deletion unit, in a case where a page printed last by the printing unit out of the plurality of pages is an odd page counting from the first page in a print order, does not delete but stores data of the page printed last.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing unit configured to perform a double-sided print for a plurality of pages;
- and
- a deletion unit configured to delete data of a page that the printing unit prints;
- wherein the deletion unit, in a case where a page printed last by the printing unit out of the plurality of pages is an odd page counting from the first page in a print order, does not delete but stores data of the page printed last.
An image forming method that an image forming apparatus comprising a printing unit for performing a double-sided print for a plurality of pages performs, the method comprising:
- a deletion step of deleting data of a page that the printing unit prints,
- wherein, in the deletion step, in a case where a page printed last by the printing unit out of the plurality of pages is an odd page counting from the first page in a print order, data of the page printed last is not deleted but stored.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.