Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Satoshi Onuma

Yasufumi Tanimoto

Hiroshi Shukunami

Takashi Matsuoka

Koji Kagaya

Kesao Shindo

An image forming system for forming an image on a sheet includes a first receiving section and a second receiving section. A first transporting section transports the sheet-to the first receiving section. A second transporting section transports the sheet to the second receiving section. A selecting section selects either the first receiving section or the second receiving section. A detector detects that the second receiving section is in an abnormal condition while the selecting section selects the second receiving section. The selection of the selecting section is changed from the second receiving section to the first receiving section corresponding to the detection of the detector. The second transporting section is driven until all the sheets in the second transporting section are transported to the second receiving section.

Image forming apparatus providing a sheet tray in the image forming

An image forming apparatus as provided which receives image data supplied from a host unit and forms an image on an image forming medium. Even if a desired image forming medium is not present, the received image data is edited to allow a desired image to be formed on an arbitrary image forming medium as a substitute for the desired image forming medium.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus is provided which forms an image on a sheet on the basis of image data selectively received from a plurality of host apparatuses. The image forming apparatus comprises a plurality of input/output ports, connected to the respective host apparatuses for receiving image data from the host apparatuses, keys for setting priority orders of the plurality of input/output ports, memories for storing the priority orders set by the keys, and a CPU for selecting one of the input/output ports in accordance with the priority orders stored in the memories, if image data is received simultaneously from two or more of the host apparatuses, a memory and photosensitive assembly for receiving image data from the input/output ports selected by the keys and for forming an image corresponding to the received image data.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Satoshi Onuma