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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1999
Satoshi Kamanuma, Toyokawa, JP;
Akiyoshi Johdai, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided with an automatic document feeder,having an original tray,, image reading sections,and,and a printer section P. The apparatus is provided with an insertion sheet detector for discriminating, when a composite original sheet group obtained by inserting between arbitrary pages of a first original sheet group comprised of original sheets of an identical size an insertion sheet of a size identical to that of the original sheets is set on the original tray,, whether the sheet fed to the image reading position is the original sheet of the first original sheet group or the insertion sheet. Through the process of forming the print group corresponding to the above composite original sheet group, the image of a second original prepared separately from the composite original sheet group is formed instead of the image of the insertion sheet. This image forming apparatus can automatically reliably form in a short time a print group corresponding to a state in which a certain original sheet group receives another original sheet to be inserted between arbitrary pages of the original sheet group.