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US 5,508,798 AGranted
Image forming method and apparatus which determine stapling position using an orientation by an image and a sheet feed direction
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKenji Yamada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a finisher capable of stapling a stack of sheets at any one of a plurality of positions. The apparatus automatically determines a stapling position matching the orientation of an image and a sheet feed direction, thereby reducing defective stapling.
Claims28
An image forming apparatus having a finisher with a plurality of stapling positions, comprising:
- recognizing means for recognizing at least one of an angular orientation of characters of an image and whether the characters of the image are read horizontally relative to the angular orientation of the characters;
- and
- control means, connected to the recognizing means, for automatically determining a stapling position on the basis of a sheet feed direction and said at least one of the angular orientation of the image and whether the characters of the image are read horizontally.
A method for determining a stapling position, comprising the computer implemented steps of:
- determining an angular orientation of an image to be copied;
- determining a sheet feed direction;
- determining a stapling position using the determined angular orientation of the image to be copied and the determined sheet feed direction;
- copying a plurality of images which include said image to be copied onto sheets;
- and
- stapling said sheets, onto which the plurality of images have been copied, at the determined stapling position.
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An image forming apparatus having a finisher with a plurality of stapling positions, comprising:
- recognizing means for recognizing an orientation of an image;
- and
- control means for automatically determining a stapling position on the basis of the orientation of the image and a sheet feed direction;
- wherein when a two point staple command is entered in a manual mode, said control means inhibits the stapling position from being automatically determined.
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An image forming apparatus having a finisher with a plurality of stapling positions, comprising:
- recognizing means for recognizing an orientation of an image;
- and
- control means for automatically determining a stapling position on the basis of the orientation of the image and a sheet feed direction;
- wherein when the stapling position is inhibited from being automatically determined, said control means urges an operator to enter a desired stapling position in a manual mode.
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An image forming apparatus having a finisher with a plurality of stapling positions, comprising:
- recognizing means for recognizing an orientation of an image;
- and
- control means for automatically determining a stapling position on the basis of the orientation of the image and a sheet feed direction;
- wherein when a stapling position is entered in a manual mode, said control means compares the manual mode stapling position with the automatically determined position and, if said manual mode stapling position differs from said automatically determined stapling position, an alarm is generated.
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An image forming apparatus having a finisher with a plurality of stapling positions, comprising:
- recognizing means for recognizing an orientation of an image;
- and
- control means for automatically determining a stapling position on the basis of the orientation of the image and a sheet feed direction;
- wherein when two point stapling is commanded, said control means determines whether or not the beginning of a writing is located at a stapling side and, if a result of the decision is negative, an alarm is generated.
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A method for determining a stapling position, comprising the computer implemented steps of:
- manually entering a two point staple command;
- determining an orientation of an image to be copied;
- determining a sheet feed direction;
- determining two stapling positions using the determined orientation of the image to be copied and the determined sheet feed direction;
- copying a plurality of images which include said image to be copied onto sheets;
- and
- stapling said sheets, onto which the plurality of images have been copied, at the two determined stapling positions which correspond to the two point staple command.
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A method for determining a stapling position, comprising the computer implemented steps of:
- determining an orientation of an image to be copied;
- determining a sheet feed direction;
- manually inhibiting a step of determining the stapling position which uses the determined orientation of the image to be copied and the determined sheet feed direction from being performed;
- urging an operator to enter a desired stapling position in a manual mode
- copying a plurality of images which include said image to be copied onto sheets;
- and
- stapling said sheets, onto which the plurality of images have been copied, at the desired stapling position entered in the manual mode.
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A method for determining a stapling position, comprising the computer implemented steps of:
- manually entering a stapling position;
- determining an orientation of an image to be copied;
- determining a sheet feed direction;
- automatically determining a stapling position using the determined orientation of the image to be copied and the determined sheet feed direction;
- copying a plurality of images which include said image to be copied onto sheets;
- comparing said stapling position which has been manually entered with said stapling position which has been automatically determined;
- producing an alarm when said comparing step determines that said stapling position which has been manually entered is different from said stapling position which has been automatically determined;
- and
- stapling said sheets, onto which the plurality of images have been copied, at the determined stapling position.
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A method for determining a stapling position, comprising the computer implemented steps of:
- manually entering a two point staple command;
- determining if a beginning of a writing is located at a stapling side when the two point staple command has been manually entered;
- outputting an alarm when said step of determining if the beginning of a writing is located at the stapling side determines that the beginning of a writing is not located at the stapling side;
- copying a plurality of images which include said image to be copied onto sheets;
- and
- stapling said sheets, onto which the plurality of images have been copied, at two stapling positions which correspond to the two point staple command.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.