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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hidehiko Asai, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/500 ;
Abstract
To cope with a situation that kinds of recording sheets capable of being discharged by a discharger are limited, in an image forming apparatus which has plural discharge trays, the kind of recording sheet is first discriminated, it is judged whether or not the recording sheet of the discriminated kind can be discharged to the discharge tray to which recording sheets should be discharged, feeding of the recording sheet is controlled based on the judged result, and the contents of the controlling are displayed.