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US 6,636,720 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, image forming method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakayuki Fujii, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Mitsuo Nimura, Norifumi Miyake, Kiyoshi Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Moriyama
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Abstract
It is intended to obtain outputs of insert sheets suitable for an inserter without delay. Thus, it is controlled to sort sheets on which pages of an image, being the print object in a mode to output the sheets to be set to an inserter provided in another apparatus having such the inserter, of first type in a series of images having plural pages were formed respectively, on the basis of information based on the inserter provided in the another apparatus.
Claims21
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet;
- and
- a controller for executing an insert sheet output mode to output the sheet on which the image was formed, as an insert sheet to be set to an inserter,
- wherein said controller controls said image forming unit to form one of color pages and B/W (black-and-white) pages and not to form the other one of the color pages and B/W pages in the insert sheet output mode, and
- wherein said controller controls said image forming unit to form continuously a same page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages and then controls said image forming unit to form another page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet;
- and
- a controller for executing an insert sheet output mode to output the sheet on which the image was formed, as an insert sheet to be set to an inserter,
- wherein said controller controls said image forming unit to form one of color pages and B/W (black-and-white) pages and not to form the other one of the color pages and B/W pages in the insert sheet output mode, and
- wherein the insert sheet output mode includes a first mode in which said image forming unit forms continuously a same page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages and then forms another page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages, and a second mode in which said image forming unit forms sequentially each page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages and then forms another copy set of the one of the color pages and B/W pages.
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An image forming method comprising:
- an image forming step of forming an image on a sheet by an image forming unit;
- and
- a controlling step of executing an insert sheet output mode to output the sheet on which the image was formed, as an insert sheet to be set to an inserter,
- wherein said controlling step controls the image forming unit to form one of color pages and B/W (black-and-white) pages and not to form the other one of the color pages and B/W pages in the insert sheet output mode, and
- wherein said controller controls said image forming unit to form continuously a same page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages and then controls said image forming unit to form another page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages.
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An image forming method comprising:
- an image forming step of forming an image on a sheet by an image forming unit;
- and
- a controlling step of executing an insert sheet output mode to output the sheet on which the image was formed, as an insert sheet to be set to an inserter,
- wherein said controlling step controls the image forming unit to form one of color pages and B/W (black-and-white) pages and not to form the other one of the color pages and B/W pages in the insert sheet output mode, and
- wherein the insert sheet output mode includes a first mode in which said image forming unit forms continuously a same page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages and then forms another page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages, and a second mode in which said image forming unit forms sequentially each page of the one of the color pages and B/W pages and then forms another copy set of the color pages and B/W pages.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.