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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Hirano, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuharu Chiyoda, Nagareyama, JP;
Daigo Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuru Hasegawa, Tsukubamirai, JP;
Yusuke Yamaguchi, Nagareyama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit, an image heating unit, a placement unit, and a control unit. The image heating unit heats an image formed by image formation unit on the recording material that was placed on the placement unit. If an envelope is placed on the placement unit with a flap of the envelope in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of a recording material, the control unit executed control to automatically execute two-sided printing on the envelope such that images formed on a first and a surface of the envelope are heated by the image heating unit. If an envelope is placed on the placement unit with a flap of the envelope in the conveyance direction of the recording material, the control unit executes control to inhibit execution of two-sided printing on the envelope.