Binding apparatus with spine cover printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideaki Kosasa, Toshihiko Kusumoto, Yoshimasu Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Ota, Yuji Yamanaka, Kozo Sakakibara
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Abstract
A bookbinding apparatus includes pasting means for pasting a bookbinding spine cover sheet on a sheet set; printing means for printing an image on the bookbinding spine sheet; and inputting means for inputting data to be used for printing the image by the printing means; wherein when the data are inputted through the inputting means, the sizes of the image to be printed on the bookbinding spine cover sheet by the printing means can be optionally selected.
Claims18
A bookbinding apparatus comprising:
- pasting means for pasting a bookbinding spine cover sheet on a sheet set;
- printing means for printing an image on the bookbinding spine cover sheet;
- inputting means for inputting data to be used for printing the image by said printing means, wherein when the data are inputted through said inputting means, the sizes of the image to be printed on the bookbinding spine cover sheet by said printing means are selectable;
- thickness detecting means for detecting the thickness of the sheet set to be bound;
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- regulating means for regulating the sizes of the image to be printed on the bookbinding spine cover sheet, in response to the thickness detected by said thickness detecting means.
An on-line book making apparatus, which comprises an external device connected to a bookbinding apparatus, and controls said bookbinding apparatus based on the input from inputting means of said external device, said bookbinding apparatus comprising:
- pasting means for pasting a bookbinding spine cover sheet on a sheet set;
- printing means for printing an image on the bookbinding spine cover sheet, wherein when data to be used for printing the image by said printing means are inputted through said inputting means, the sizes of the image to be printed on the bookbinding spine cover sheet by said printing means are selectable;
- thickness detecting means for detecting the thickness of the sheet set to be bound;
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- regulating means for regulating the sizes of the image to be printed on the bookbinding spine cover sheet, in response to the thickness detected by said thickness detecting means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.