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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Junichi Nishiyama, Atsugi, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving a printing job including image data, a counting unit for counting a number of sheets required by the printing job when an image for one page is formed on a sheet of paper, an image forming unit for forming images for a plurality of pages on a sheet of paper when the number of sheets exceeds a prescribed value, and a tray for receiving a image formed sheet. The image forming apparatus enables outputting an entire image data even when the number of sheets required for printing the entire image data exceeds a capacity of the tray.