Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Atsushi Kaseno

Yukio Kanaoka

Kanji Mizusugi

Takashi Matsuda

Naoki Saito

Fumikazu Shimanuki

Kenzoh Yoshida

Makoto Takimoto

Kensho Tsuji

Osamu Kawata

Tomoyuki Hatanaka

Takaaki Kuwabara

Kenji Shimanuki, Legal Representative

Seiko Shimanuki, Legal Representative

Copying machine

An image forming apparatus allowing a user to easily access an operating section even in a large-size apparatus can be provided. An image forming apparatusincludes a main machineincluding an operating sectionand capable of functioning as a multifunction machine by itself, and at least one option machinetoadded to a side-face side of an enclosureof the main machine. The apparatusincludes the operating sectionat a fixed position in the width direction of the enclosure. The enclosure has a unified first color of a same tone at a front face thereof, and an operating position lineis formed at a part of the front face of the enclosure and has a second color that is clearly different from the first color so as to be a guide indicating a position of the operating section

Image forming apparatus

Copier

An image forming apparatus includes a processing unit which performs an image recording process for recording an image on a recording medium based on image data; a movement mechanism which moves the processing unit; a first control section which controls the image recording process performed by the processing unit; and a second control section which acquires a state of progress of the image recording process and controls the movement mechanism so as to move the processing unit to a position according to the progress state.

Image forming apparatus with moveable image processing units

An image forming apparatus comprising: a document reading section that can read an image of a document; a document-type determining section that can extract, when the image includes a finishing mark or a characteristic form, the finishing mark or the characteristic form as a characteristic portion from the readout document image, and can determine, based on the extracted characteristic portion, a type of the finishing or a type of the document; a processing deciding section that decides, based on the determined type of the finishing or the determined type of the document, a type of finishing to be performed to a medium to be output or a type of image processing to be performed to an image to be output; and a processor that performs finishing of the type decided by the processing deciding section to the medium to be output or image processing of the type decided by the processing deciding section to the image to be output.

Image forming apparatus having a processing deciding section and image formation controlling method

Printer

Printer for an electronic computer

Data communication terminal

Personal computer

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Kyoto, Japan

Atsushi Kaseno