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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an image formation system for forming images of read original images, a control method of the image formation system, image formation apparatuses, a storage medium thereof. According to the present invention, sheets of which size corresponds to an attribute of the images are selected, and it is detected whether or not the image formation apparatus has the sheets selected by the image formation apparatus. When it is detected that the image formation apparatus does not have the selected sheets, sheets other than the selected sized sheets are selected as sheets used in forming images by the image formation apparatus, and it is controlled that another image formation apparatus performs an image formation using the sheets other than the selected sized sheets.