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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1999
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image formation apparatus provides a method of improving productivity in case of forming images onto both of the faces of a sheet. According to the method, an original is read by the apparatus in the order of its back face and front face sequentially. The read images are formed onto the sheet in the order of front-faced image and back-faced image of the original. Images of three originals D,, D,and D,which are read by an image sensor in the order of second, first, fourth, third, sixth and fifth pages are subjected to editing processing by an image processing unit. If the image data of the first page is stored into a hard disk, the image data of the first page (front-faced image of original D,) is formed onto the first face of a fed sheet P,Subsequently, if the image data of the third page is stored, the image data of the third page (front-faced image of original D,) is formed onto the first face of a fed sheet P,. Similarly, after the front-faced image of the original D,is formed, the back-faced image of the original D,is formed onto the second face of the sheet P
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