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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2017
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Shinya Ogawa, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a generation section, an image forming section, and a size determining section. The generation section divides a first image to generate a plurality of second images. The image forming section forms the second images on a plurality of sheets, respectively. The size determining section determines a size of a margin area allocated to at least one of the sheets. The image forming section forms the second images on the sheets, respectively, so that the second images are placed in a designated area on a combined sheet that is to be formed by combining the sheets. The size determining section determines the size of the margin area based on sizes of the designated area and the first image.