Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyoshi Inoue
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Abstract
When trial printing is executed in a repeat printing mode, trial printing is performed in size of an image of one piece in a layout in which a plurality of images are supposed to be printed in the repeat printing mode normally. A user who has checked a finished state of the trial printing sets, when the finished state is in a desired state, the recording paper on which the trial printing is performed to the paper feed portion again and executes the repeat printing. Thereby, in a blank space excluding a print image which is printed with a first time trial printing, a scheduled quantity of a plurality of images are repeatedly printed.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming portion which forms an image of image data on recording paper;
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- a paper feed portion which feeds the recording paper to the image forming portion,
- the image forming apparatus being configured to carry out a repeat printing function which forms images by repeatedly arranging the image data on one sheet of the recording paper, and a trial printing function which, when forming a plurality of the images for one of the image data, forms only one image for the image data first, and subsequently, forms the image again in response to input of an image formation instruction, wherein
- the image forming portion enables execution of the trial printing function in a mode of executing the repeat printing function, and in forming the image by the trial printing function, forms only the one image on a part of the recording paper for the image data to be printed by means of repeat printing, and in response to input of an instruction to execute printing by the repeat printing function, feeds the recording paper on which the image is formed by the trial printing function again by the paper feed portion and forms a scheduled quantity of images by the repeat printing function in a blank space on the fed recording paper, and
- the trial printing function is repeated so as to form the image again after first forming the one image, and an indication is added to the one image formed by the trial printing function if the one image is not used to form the scheduled quantity of images by the repeat printing function.
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