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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkihiro Kawakita, Satoru Yamamoto, Koji Yumoto, Akinobu Nishikata, Takashi Yokoya
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An image forming apparatus configured to execute a print job for printing on a sheet supplied from a sheet supplying mechanism constructed by a first sheet feeding apparatus configured to temporarily stop conveyance of the sheet within a conveyance path thereof or a second sheet feeding apparatus configured not to temporarily stop conveyance of the sheet within a conveyance path thereof, the image forming apparatus including: an image former configured to form an image on the sheet; an obtaining device configured to obtain apparatus information representing a type of an apparatus constructing the sheet supplying mechanism; and a controller configured to determine, based on the apparatus information and the sheet supplying mechanism instructed to feed the sheet by the print job, timings to send, to the sheet supplying mechanism, a feed request for starting to feed the sheet and a delivery request for instructing to deliver the sheet.
An image forming apparatus, which is configured to execute a print job for performing printing on a sheet supplied from one of a first sheet feeding apparatus configured to temporarily stop conveyance of the sheet within a conveyance path thereof and a second sheet feeding apparatus configured not to temporarily stop conveyance of the sheet within a conveyance path thereof, the first sheet feeding apparatus and the second sheet feeding apparatus each serving as a sheet supplying mechanism, the image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming system, comprising:
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