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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099038 | Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium An image forming apparatus for processing a print job includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about a set of printed sheets to be post-processed by a post-processing apparatus, the post-processing apparatus not being connected to the image formi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7418234 | Image forming apparatus A discharge unit is disposed downstream of a principal transport path of a compound machine, and a shifter function is provided in this discharge unit. By shifting the paper passage position relative to a photosensitive drum when printing the front side and the pape... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7354036 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes: a buffer unit which stores plural supplied sheets with upstream edges in a conveying direction thereof aligned; a processing tray on which sheets discharged from the buffer unit are stacked; and an oscillation roller pair and a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7288059 | Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray on which sheets are stacked in a bundle form, an intermediate portion stapler which staples the intermediate portion of the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a sheet bundle conveying member which con... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7264237 | Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7245845 | Printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and printing system An apparatus for executing a printing process on the basis of a print job from an external apparatus, comprises a post-processing unit which can apply post-processing for printed paper sheets using paper sheets prepared independently of the printed paper sheets; a d... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233411 | Information processing apparatus, print data generating method, print control program, and computer-readable recording medium When an Offset or rotation sort output is designated as an output style, whether document data of one copy is printed to one paper (physical sheet) and outputted or not is discriminated. When it is printed to one paper, it is intended to enable the print such that t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7192020 | Sheet processing apparatus for storing supplied sheets while preceding sheet are processed A sheet processing apparatus includes: a buffer unit which stores plural supplied sheets with upstream edges in a conveying direction thereof aligned; a processing tray on which sheets discharged from the buffer unit are stacked; and an oscillation roller pair and a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7159862 | Sheet delivery mechanism for image forming apparatus A roller turning force generator is connected to a driving gear which is mounted on a shaft. The shaft is connected to offset roller assemblies disposed in an offset mechanism via connecting gears. The offset roller assemblies rotatably supported inside the offset m... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162195 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, determining in sorting recording sheets whether or not recording sheet transport interval is shorter than a first predetermined value, sets the longest time settable as a delay time when the interval is longer than the first value. When t... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7120383 | Sheet treating apparatus, method of mounting sheet treating apparatus, and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has an image reading portion for reading an image of an original and which is disposed in an upper part of the apparatus, an image forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and which is disposed below the image reading portion with a... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108261 | Sheet delivery mechanism A sheet delivery mechanism designed to discharge successive sheets to different delivery positions includes offset rollers, an offset unit, an offsetting force generator and an offset unit swinging mechanism. The offset rollers is rotatably supported by the offset u... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107006 | Sheet treating apparatus, method of mounting sheet treating apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097369 | Method and apparatus for inserting tabs in a print job Method and apparatus for inserting tabs in a print job. A method for inserting tab sheets in a print job is disclosed. First, a position is selected within a document to insert a tab sheet, which document includes a plurality of sheets each with a document defined i... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095978 | Sheet post-processing apparatus having offset mounting means A sheet processing apparatus comprising a sheet stacking member for stacking a sheet to be discharged, and an offset mounting member for offsetting a plurality of sheet bundles on sides in a sheet bundle takeout direction and in a direction opposite thereto, and mou... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7050751 | Image forming system with temporary storage trays between sheet storage units and image forming apparatus An image forming system has a sheet deck assembly, an image forming apparatus, and a feeding buffering apparatus with plural feeding buffer trays for temporarily storing sheets of printing paper fed from plural printing paper decks of the sheet deck assembly. The fe... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050752 | Sheet treating apparatus, method of mounting sheet treating apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6994339 | Sheet stacking-aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus The sheet stacking-aligning apparatus or the sheet processing apparatus includes a substantially horizontal stacking tray, a rear end aligning unit for aligning a rear end of a sheet bundle on the stacking tray, and a control unit for controlling an operation of the... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6963722 | Sheet post-processing apparatus having offset mounting means A sheet processing apparatus comprising a sheet stacking member for stacking a sheet to be discharged, and an offset mounting member for offsetting a plurality of sheet bundles on sides in a sheet bundle takeout direction and in a direction opposite thereto, and mou... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6962453 | Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method The present invention is characterized in that: a demanded printing-job is accepted at a printing-job accepting unit, and a printing executing unit executes printing according to the accepted printing-job so as to produce an output sheet onto a discharge tray; an ou... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6877921 | Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method The present invention is characterized in that: a demanded printing-job is accepted at a printing-job accepting unit, and a printing executing unit executes printing according to the accepted printing-job so as to produce an output sheet onto a discharge tray; an ou... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6871851 | Sheet-shaped medium processing apparatus A sheet-shaped medium processing apparatus including a pair of arranging members. The arranging members have both an arranging function for arranging paper piled on a tray after being discharged in a discharge direction from a paper discharge roller at a fixed posit... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6832759 | Sheet-shaped medium aligning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and sheet-shaped medium after-treatment apparatus A sheet-shaped medium aligning apparatus, an image forming apparatus, and a sheet-shaped medium after-treatment apparatus where an arranging device is moved from a position predetermined to arrange sheet-shaped mediums on a sheet piling device to a position receivin... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6748858 | Printing system A printing apparatus and a printing method capable of preventing stacks of printed sheets from falling apart which can occur when continuously printing stacks of sheets of different sheet sizes. A printing press is controlled to suspend printing for removal of print... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6695300 | Sheet finishing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same A sheet finishing apparatus includes a discharge device having a pair of rotating shafts and discharge rotating bodies supported on the rotating shafts; a shift device for shifting the rotating shafts in a shaft direction; a support device for receiving a... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6588746 | Device for generating an offset of transported flexible sheet material The invention relates to a device (1) for generating an offset (2) of transported flexible sheet material (3), especially sheets of paper, with a feeding and a discharging transport path section (5 and 7) and a transport path section (6) which is assigned... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6496278 | Image forming apparatus and printer apparatus When a storage memory becomes full during processing of printing out of image data read from a page memory and transferred to both a storage memory and a printing portion at the same time for a first copy, a function of an image rotating portion is not ef... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6480697 | Image-forming apparatus, network-type image-forming apparatus, and method therefor In an image-forming apparatus, which discharges to a stacker a sheet on which an image has been formed, the sorting of printed matter is performed on the stacker without providing optional equipment. Because of being constituted so as to independently dri... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6473590 | Sheet post-processing apparatus having offset mounting means A sheet processing apparatus comprising a sheet stacking member for stacking a sheet to be discharged, and an offset mounting member for offsetting a plurality of sheet bundles on sides in a sheet bundle takeout direction and in a direction opposite there... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6464449 | Collating apparatus with error detection According to the collating apparatus of the present invention, if the collation error is detected, the erroneously collated matter selection and discharge unit discharges the erroneously collated matter so as to be distinguishable from the correctly colla... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6445891 | Image forming apparatus capable of being fitted with offset stacker, copying machine equipped with the image forming apparatus, and method of controlling the image forming apparatus The CPU detects an error in the timing of offset stacking by the offset stacker on the basis of the time when the offset motor signal for driving the offset motor is generated and the time when the initial position sensor is turned ON. Upon detecting an e... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6421523 | Image forming apparatus capable of shift stacking discharged sheet bundle An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet, a tray for stacking a sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming device, a shifting device for shifting the sheet for each copy to stack the sheet on... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6290220 | Sheet treating apparatus and image forming apparatus therewith A sheet treating apparatus including a sheet discharging device for discharging a sheet, a first stacking tray for receiving the sheets discharged by the sheet discharging device, an aligning device for aligning a sheet bundle on the first stacking tray b... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6260838 | Stapling stacker A stapling stacker has a sheet infeed, a pivoted shelf on which the trailing ends of sheets are assembled with the leading ends supported by previously stacked sets, the sets are side edge aligned, stapled into sets and offset with respect to previously s... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6227531 | Job separation process, system and method for distributing print jobs A method is provided for identifying individual output jobs from an output stack, each output job including a stack of one or more individual sheets. The method includes the steps of: providing a sheet handling device having a sheet delivery device and an... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5918872 | Sheet binding apparatus with sheet set shifting means and image forming apparatus with the same A sheet binding apparatus includes at least one bin tray for accommodating sheets; at least one binding device for binding a set of sheets in the bin; a first sheet moving device for moving the sheet sets in the bin tray; and a second sheet moving device ... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5897250 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes a first sheet feeder for feeding a first sheet; a second sheet feeder for feeding a second sheet for discrimination; a sheet sticking device for sticking the second sheet fed from said second sheet feeder on the first... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5848346 | Image forming apparatus for offsetting output sheet The present invention provides an image forming apparatus comprising convey means for conveying a sheet, image forming means for forming an image on the sheet, and stacking means onto which the sheet is discharged after image formation thereon. Wherein a ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5734480 | Recording apparatus capable of sorting image recorded sheets An image recording apparatus includes a printer for recording a received image on a sheet, a sorter for sorting the sheet by stacking the sheet recorded by the printer in one of a plurality of bins, a determination unit for determining a bin in which the ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5655208 | Modular multi-function image-forming apparatus for printing mixed sided and mixed color copy sets A modular copier/printer or similar image forming apparatus of the type having an image transfer body in the form of a drum or belt allows documents to be reproduced in a paper discharge mode which discharges paper sheets, or recording media, in page-sequ... | 08/05/1997 |
