US 9,168,768 B2Granted

Printing apparatus, control method for printing apparatus, and storage medium

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorTakashi Nonaka

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Abstract

A method for controlling a printing apparatus includes printing, via a printing unit, an image on a sheet according to image data to generating one copy of printed product, conveying, among one set of a plurality of index sheets, a number of index sheets designated by a user, to add the designated number of sheets to the one copy of printed product generated by the printing unit, conveying, after conveying sheets corresponding to the one copy of printed product, remaining index sheets among the set of a plurality of index sheets to discharge the remaining index sheets, and conveying the index sheets to be added to the one copy of printed product at a first conveyance speed, and conveying the remaining index sheets at a second conveyance speed that is higher than the first conveyance speed.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A printing apparatus comprising:

a first holding unit configured to hold sheets of a first type;
a second holding unit configured to hold sheets of a second type, wherein each of a predetermined number of sheets of the second type is grouped as one set;
a printing unit configured to print images onto the sheets of the first type and the sheets of the second type;
and
a control unit configured to cause included sheets, which are to be discharged with the sheets of the first type as one copy of printed materials and are among one set of the sheets of the second type, to be conveyed at a first speed, and cause one or more remaining sheet(s), which are not to be included in the one copy of printed materials and are among the one set of the sheets of the second type, to be conveyed at a second speed,
wherein the second speed is faster than the first speed, and wherein the second speed is the same as a speed at which the sheets of the first type are conveyed so as not to necessitate a process for switching a conveyance speed between a sheet which is one of the sheets of the first type and a sheet which is one of the one or more remaining sheet(s), and
wherein grammage of the sheets of the second type is greater than grammage of the sheets of the first type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/460,173Filed 30 Apr 2012
Priority: JP 2011-10701112 May 2011
Published: US 2012/0288294 A115 Nov 2012
Granted: 27 Oct 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B41J 13/0036
Control of the transport of the copy material: in the output section of automatic paper handling systems
B41J 11/485
Apparatus for condensed record, tally strip, or like work using two or more papers, or sets of papers , e.g. devices for switching over from…:…
G03G 15/655
Devices for collating sheet copy material, e.g. sorters, control, copies in staples form: placing job divider sheet between set of sheets
B65H 33/04
Forming counted batches in delivery pile or stream of articles: by inserting marker slips in pile or stream