Rank Xerox Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yoshiharu Namba

Akihiko Sato

Hiroaki Ishizawa

Kiyoshi Ishikawa

Akiyoshi Inoue

Yuji Akiyoshi

An image forming method for use in image forming apparatus including on the right surface thereof a discharge opening connectable with a post-processing device, the image forming method comprising the steps of:

Image forming apparatus and image forming method used in the same

A sheet sorter apparatus is disclosed as having a basic sorter unit comprising a horizontal transport, a vertical transport, and a plurality of sorter bins wherein the vertical transport has a pair of bin indexing guide elements, one of which is arranged to index sheets into the bins sequentially, while the other element is arranged to index sheets to a second sorter unit containing only a plurality of bins thereby allowing the use of additional bins without added transport structure.

Paper sorting apparatus for a copier

Heat and pressure fuser apparatus for fixing toner images to substrates passing through a nip formed between two pressure engaged roll structures, at least one of the roll structures being heated and contacting the toner images as the substrates pass through the nip. The apparatus being characterized by a heated fuser roll structure having a thin circumferential wall wherein reinforcing structure is provided internally thereof for rendering the thin circumferential wall sufficiently rigid to withstand the pressures to which it is subjected during fusing.

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Ebina, Japan

Yoshiharu Namba