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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:
Jun. 28, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Takenori Idehara, Machida, JP;
Inventor:
Takenori Idehara, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F005/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus including a receiving unit for receiving image data having color pages containing color images and monochromatic pages not containing any color images, a change unit for changing order of printing of the received image data in order to make color page printing to continue, a printing unit for printing on papers in the changed order, and a discharge unit for discharging printed papers into a plurality of bins based on page numbers received.