Image forming apparatus and method

Abstract

An image forming apparatus and method includes a storage device to store a plurality of documents, a user input device to select at least two documents from the plurality of documents stored in the storage device in a predetermined order and selects the number copies to be printed for the at least two selected documents to request complex printing, a print engine to print the at least two selected documents by the selected number of copies, and a controller to control the print engine in such a way that when complex printing is requested, the at least two documents are printed out one by one according to the predetermined order and by the selected number of copies, thereby discharging printed complex documents in the selected number of copies. As a result, it becomes possible to combine the plurality of document files into one complex document and to print a plurality of copies of that complex document.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.