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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1999
Tatsuya Shiratori, Kashiwa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an original conveying apparatus, a scanning device for scanning an original image of the original on the original support glass plate, an image forming portion for forming an image on the basis of the original image read by the scanning device, a recording sheet supply portion for supplying a recording sheet to the image forming portion through a convey path, and a control device for controlling in such a manner that, when the image of each original is formed on N recording sheets, a subsequent original on the original stacking device starts to be supplied during a scanning of the image for a last N-th recording sheet, wherein the N is more than 1.