Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorRyuuichi Shiraishi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms images on sheets; a stack portion on which the sheets with the images are stacked as a bundle of the sheets with first end parts of the sheets aligned; a first binding unit that binds the first end parts; a second binding unit that binds the first end parts, by a binding method that requires a binding region larger than that of the first binding unit; and a distance reducing unit that changes a position of the bundle when bound by the first binding unit, from a position of the bundle when bound by the second binding unit, and reduces a distance between a part bound by the second binding unit and the first end parts as compared with a distance between a part bound by the first binding unit and the first end parts.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms images on sheets;
- a stack portion on which the sheets with the images formed by the image forming unit are stacked as a bundle of the sheets such that first end parts of the sheets are aligned;
- a first binding unit that binds the first end parts of the bundle of sheets stacked on the stack portion;
- a second binding unit that binds the first end parts of the bundle of sheets stacked on the stack portion, by a binding method that requires a binding region larger than a binding region of the first binding unit;
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- a distance reducing unit that changes a position of the bundle of sheets when the bundle of sheets is bound by the first binding unit, from a position of the bundle of sheets when the bundle of sheets is bound by the second binding unit, and reduces a distance between a part bound by the second binding unit and the first end parts as compared with a distance between a part bound by the first binding unit and the first end parts.
An image forming method, comprising:
- forming images on sheets;
- stacking the sheets with the images formed as a bundle of the sheets such that first end parts of the sheets are aligned;
- performing first binding processing of binding the first end parts of the bundle of stacked sheets;
- performing second binding processing of binding the first end parts of the bundle of stacked sheets, by a binding method that requires a binding region larger than a binding region of the first binding processing;
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- changing a position of the bundle of sheets when the bundle of sheets is bound by the first binding processing, from a position of the bundle of sheets when the bundle of sheets is bound by the second binding processing, and reducing a distance between a part bound by the second binding processing and the first end parts as compared with a distance between a part bound by the first binding processing and the first end parts.
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