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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2001
Chikara Sato, Hachioji, JP;
Norifumi Miyake, Kashiwa, JP;
Yasuo Fukazu, Abiko, JP;
Mitsushige Murata, Abiko, JP;
Masatoshi Yaginuma, Toride, JP;
Kiyoshi Okamoto, Toride, JP;
Manabu Yamauchi, Toride, JP;
Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Toride, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image formation system which includes a finisher with an inserter having a tray for stacking the specific sheet on which an image such as a cover image was formed, and an image formation apparatus, a series of originals composed of plural pages is read from its head page in due order, the image based on the read original is formed on the sheet, the sheet stacked on the inserter is fed, the sheet from the inserter is reversed to set its image-formed face facedown, the sheet from a printer unit is reversed to set its image-formed face facedown. The sheet, the image-formed face of which was reversed facedown, is discharged from the printer unit to the finisher and, on the finisher, the sheet from the inserter is stacked as keeping its image-formed face facedown and the sheet from the printer unit is stacked as keeping its image-formed face facedown. The top and bottom of the image formed by the image forming apparatus corresponds to the top and bottom of the insert sheet.