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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2003
Katsumi Kawagoe, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of paper supply sections having a paper size sensor to detect a size of a print paper; an image forming section forming an image on the fed print paper; a paper discharge section stocking the print paper formed of the image and discharged; an auto fence located on the paper discharge section, and displacing the position of a width direction of the print paper stocked on the paper discharge section according to the paper size of the print paper fed from the paper supply sections; a storage section storing the image forming processing as the printing job in the image for one page unit; and a control section determining a sequence of each printing job stored in the storage section so that printing processing is executed in order from a printing job with the smallest paper size in the width direction.