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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
May. 29, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Arai, Toride, JP;
Yutaka Ando, Toride, JP;
Toshiyuki Miyake, Nagareyama, JP;
Riki Fukuhara, Funabashi, JP;
Yuichiro Oda, Nagareyama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus configured to change an interleaf control mode from a not confirmed sheet-feeding mode to a sheet-presence confirmed sheet-feeding mode when a remaining amount of recording sheets is less than a first threshold, wherein the image forming apparatus has a first mode of changing a feeding origin of a recording sheet, according to detection of absence of a recording sheet in a storage unit by a sheet presence/absence detection unit during execution of an image forming job, and a second mode of changing a feeding origin of a recording sheet, according to detection of a recording-sheet remaining amount of the storage unit less than a second threshold during execution of an image forming job, and wherein the second threshold is larger than the first threshold for changing an interleaf control mode.