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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2001
Rieko Akiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Akinobu Nishikata, Chiba, JP;
Tadaaki Saida, Chiba, JP;
Yuichiro Maeda, Ibaraki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus in which images are formed on one type of sheets, such as OHP sheets, and at the same time another type of sheets, such as tab sheets, are output and inserted between the former type sheets, the invention makes it possible to avoid the user operation from becoming complicated, to keep users from suffering an increased burden, to provide a desired output result easily handled by the users. To that end, when a storage unit storing tab sheets is designated and the inter-OHP insertion mode is selected, the tab sheets are automatically fed from the storage unit designated by a tab-sheet storage unit designating unit, and are each inserted between OHP sheets.