Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masahiro Kitajiri

Takehiro Katoh

Kazunori Soda

Yoshifumi Maitani

Yasuhiro Inoue

Noritomo Nakashima

Norihide Momose

Yoshio Nishimoto

Hiroki Kinoshita

Masayuki Gomi

Hideki Sekino

Yukinari Satou

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, and a control unit for supplying the image forming unit with image data for a plurality of pages so that the image forming unit forms images page by page on sheets transported by the paper transport unit, wherein, when the image data for each page includes data representative of blanks on a leading end side and on a tail end side of the page in a paper transport direction, the control unit deletes the data representative of the blank either on the leading end side or on the tail end side from the image data prior to supplying the image forming unit with the image data, and controls the paper transport unit so that a plurality of sheets are transported sequentially to the image formation unit in a multiple state in which one sheet partially overlaps with another in the paper transport direction by a length corresponding to the deleted data representative of the blank.

Image formation apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Kashiwara, Japan

Masahiro Kitajiri