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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Shinji Hashiguchi, Mishima, JP;
Shinji Hashiguchi, Mishima, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes a controller controlling feeding of a recording material. When the recording material size is smaller than a reference size, the controller expands an interval between precedent and subsequent recording materials gradually. When image formation on recording materials smaller than a reference size starts, when the elapsed time from the end of the last image formation exceeds a predetermined time, an initial value of the interval is set to a predetermined minimum value. When image formation on recording materials smaller than the reference size starts, when the elapsed time is shorter than the predetermined time, the initial value of the interval is set in accordance with the elapsed time and a last feeding interval at the time of an image formation of the last time or a last temperature in a non-sheet-passing region at the time of an image formation of the last time.