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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2023
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;
Michiaki Nishimura, Sakai, JP;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes one or more controllers that control reading of a plurality of documents, an image processing, a printing, and a post-processing, wherein in a case where the post-processing is set, and when a main scanning direction size is alignable to a main scanning direction size of one of the documents by applying, to an image of each document, at least one of image processing among rotation in the unit of 90 degrees, enlargement/reduction, and margin increase/decrease adjustment, the controller allows to perform the post-processing by aligning the main scanning direction size of each image with respect to the alignable size as a reference size.