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US 6,714,747 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus with different recording sheets feeding and discharging features
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidehiko Asai
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Abstract
To cope with a situation that kinds of recording sheets capable of being discharged by a discharger are limited, in an image forming apparatus which has plural discharge trays, the kind of recording sheet is first discriminated, it is judged whether or not the recording sheet of the discriminated kind can be discharged to the discharge tray to which recording sheets should be discharged, feeding of the recording sheet is controlled based on the judged result, and the contents of the controlling are displayed.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of feeders for feeding recording sheets;
- an image forming unit for forming images on the recording sheets fed from said plurality of feeders;
- a plurality of dischargers for discharging the recording sheets on which the images have been formed respectively by said image forming unit;
- a discriminator for discriminating kinds of recording sheets respectively set to said plurality of feeders;
- an indicator for indicating, from among said plurality of dischargers, a discharger by which the recording sheets should be discharged;
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- a selecting unit for selecting a feeder in accordance with said discharger indicated by said indicator and the kind of recording sheet discriminated by said discriminator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.