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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2007
Applicant:
Koki Watanabe, Moriya, JP;
Inventor:
Koki Watanabe, Moriya, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 26/38 (2006.01); B41J 11/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sheet post-processing apparatus which is capable of reliably producing desired labels and suppressing increases in user office expenses, job time, and environmental load. A laser cutting unit cuts a sheet being conveyed along a sheet conveying path or a sheet discharged onto a post-processing tray, with a laser beam, and a CPU circuit section and a sheet post-processing apparatus control section control the laser cutting unit such that the laser cutting unit cuts a label sheet as the sheet, based on layout information in a label sheet mode of the image forming apparatus.