Sheet binding processing apparatus, image forming system and binding method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyuta Mine, Toshiyuki Abe
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Abstract
The sheet binding apparatus comprises a movable stapler for binding a sheet bundle formed of a plurality of sheets; a movable stapler movement motor for moving the movable stapler between a first position and a second position, the first position, at which sheet conveyance from the image forming apparatus connected so as to be capable of feeding a sheet, and the second position, at which the sheet conveyance is not hampered and a sheet bundle which is manually provided without using the image forming apparatus is bound; and CPU for controlling the movable stapler movement motor to cause, when the image forming apparatus is in a state of not forming the image, the movable stapler to stand by at the second position.
Claims9
A sheet binding apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet comprising:
- a binding section configured to bind a sheet bundle formed of a plurality of sheets;
- a shifting section configured to move the binding section between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position at which sheet conveyance from the image forming apparatus to the binding section is not hampered, and the second position being a position at which the sheet conveyance from the image forming apparatus to the binding section is not hampered and a sheet bundle which is manually provided is bindable;
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- a control section configured to control the shifting section to cause, when the image forming apparatus is in a standby state in which the image forming apparatus is not executing image formation but is waiting for input of a print job, the binding section to stand by at the second position,
- wherein, in a case where the binding section is at the second position and an instruction to start a print job in which no binding processing is designated is input to the image forming apparatus, the control section causes the binding section to remain in the second position.
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a binding section configured to bind a sheet bundle formed of a plurality of sheets;
- a shifting section configured to move the binding section between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position at which sheet conveyance from the image forming section to the binding section is not hampered, and the second position being a position at which the sheet conveyance from the image forming section to the binding section is not hampered and a sheet bundle which is manually provided is bindable;
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- a control section configured to control the shifting section to cause, when the image forming section is in a standby state in which the image forming apparatus is not executing image formation but is waiting for input of a print job, the binding section to stand by at the second position,
- wherein, in a case where the binding section is at the second position and an instruction to start a print job in which no binding processing is designated is input to the image forming apparatus, the control section causes the binding section to remain in the second position.
A sheet binding method which is executed by a binding apparatus, connected to an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet which comprises:
- a binding section configured to bind a sheet bundle formed of a plurality of sheets;
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- a shifting section configured to move the binding section between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position at which sheet conveyance from the image forming apparatus to the binding section is not hampered, and the second position being a position at which the sheet conveyance from the image forming apparatus to the binding section is not hampered and a sheet bundle which is manually provided without using the image forming apparatus is bound,
- the method comprising:
- standing by the binding section at the second position in a state in which the image forming apparatus is not executing image formation but is waiting for input of a print job;
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- when the sheet bundle is fed from the image forming apparatus, moving the binding section to a binding position by the shifting section to bind the sheet bundle,
- wherein, in a case where the binding section is at the second position and an instruction to start a print job in which no binding processing is designated is input to the image forming apparatus, the binding section remains in the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.