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Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2016
Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, Aichi, JP;

Inventor:

Tsutomu Tanaka, Aichi, JP;

Assignee:

BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/24 (2006.01); B41F 21/00 (2006.01); B65H 39/11 (2006.01); B65H 31/02 (2006.01); B65H 43/06 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 21/00 (2013.01); B65H 31/02 (2013.01); B65H 31/24 (2013.01); B65H 39/11 (2013.01); B65H 43/06 (2013.01); G03G 15/6564 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4212 (2013.01); B65H 2405/332 (2013.01); B65H 2408/111 (2013.01); B65H 2511/152 (2013.01); B65H 2511/414 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00911 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller of a printing apparatus is configured to determine whether there is a stack-full tray, restrict discharging of the printing sheet to the stack-full tray and reduce the number of copies made in the sort printing process, store the page number of the page currently printed in association with a stack-full tray, obtain image data corresponding to the page associated with the stack-full tray onwards when it is determined that the full stack status of the stack-full trays is released, and the obtained print images with making the tray of which status is changed from the full status to the non-full status.


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