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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2004
Shiro Takagi, Inagi, JP;
Shiro Takagi, Inagi, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a creating portion for determining whether or not document data give have a capacity greater than a first predetermined value, and creating code patterns by encoding the document data as it is, if the controller determines that the document data have a capacity smaller than the first predetermined value, a creating portion for reducing the document data by a second predetermined value and creating code patterns by encoding the thus reduced document data, if the controller determines that the document data have a capacity greater than the first predetermined value, and an printing engine for forming the thus created code patterns and the document data on a sheet of paper. With this arrangement, it is possible to print even large-capacity document data on the back of the sheet of paper in the form of code patterns.