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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., LTD., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 82 ; 399391 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus such as a copying machine which is capable of multi print job is disclosed, the image forming apparatus stores identification information of the recording sheet tray selected by a selection means for each registered print job in memory for each print job. When a recording sheet tray for a new print job is selected, selection of the recording sheet tray for the registered print job stored in memory is inhibited or a notice will be issued. Thereby, the recording sheet tray selected for the preceding print job will not be selected for the subsequent print job.