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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 30, 2006
Yoshihito Osari, Tokyo, JP;
Eiichi Motoyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kuniyasu Kimura, Toride, JP;
Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Toride, JP;
Takahiko Yamaoka, Kashiwa, JP;
Yuichi Yamamoto, Abiko, JP;
Yoshihito Osari, Tokyo, JP;
Eiichi Motoyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kuniyasu Kimura, Toride, JP;
Hiroaki Tomiyasu, Toride, JP;
Takahiko Yamaoka, Kashiwa, JP;
Yuichi Yamamoto, Abiko, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus capable of reducing a part of a sheet exposed outside the apparatus on standby after finishing printing a first side in both-sided printing. A transfer material P having an image formed on its first side is fed until a part thereof gets exposed outside a full-color printerand is fed to a refeeding path in the full-color printer. The transfer material P inverted by a flapperis fed to a standby position to form an image on a second side thereof and is stopped there. In the case where a preparation for forming the image on the second side is not completed, the standby position for having the transfer material P stopped is changed corresponding to length of the inverted transfer material P in a feeding direction.