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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1986
Tomobumi Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiko Mori, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Hirose, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Ohbuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Masanori Miyata, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichi Nakamura, Kawasaki, JP;
Takeshi Honjo, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is disclosed which comprises an image forming member for forming a plurality of images onto one sheet, a setting member for setting the number of sheets to be formed with images and a control member for controlling the image forming member in order to execute formation of the images for the number of sheets which can be loaded in a tray. The image forming member has the tray for temporarily loading the sheet on which a part of the images has been formed and further forms another part of the images onto the sheet loaded in the tray, when the number of sheets which is set by the setting member is larger than the number of sheets which can be loaded in the tray a plurality of the above operations are repeated.