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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1994
Tadashi Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Isamu Sato, Yokohama, JP;
Masatoshi Tanabe, Chigasaki, JP;
Kazuhiko Hirooka, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Mizuno, Ichikawa, JP;
Yoshihiko Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is disclosed an image forming apparatus, such as a copying machine, capable of various image forming modes. The image forming mode can be selected by feeding a mode registration format sheet into the apparatus. The format sheet can be a marking sheet, on which the operator can designate the desired image forming mode, and can be printed by the image forming apparatus itself in response to an instruction by the operator, so that the format sheet need not be prepared elsewhere in advance. Also the content of the format sheet, printed by the image forming apparatus, is varied according to the available copying modes, depending on the connection status of external processing units such as document feeder and sorter to the image forming apparatus.