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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2011
Haruyuki Honda, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Tomoyoshi Yamazaki, Osaka, JP;
Toshikane Nishii, Osaka, JP;
Mizuna Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Haruyuki Honda, Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
Tomoyoshi Yamazaki, Osaka, JP;
Toshikane Nishii, Osaka, JP;
Mizuna Tanaka, Osaka, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit forming an image on a sheet transported along a transport path in a printing operation; a sheet stacking unit in which the sheet ejected at the end of the transport path is stacked; a sheet detecting unit detecting the presence or absence of the sheet in the transport path; a counting unit counting number-of-sheet data of the sheet detected by the sheet detecting unit; and a control unit controlling the printing operation in accordance with a first print request from a print instructing unit for a print job and based on a count value obtained by the counting unit. The control unit clears the count value in the absence of a next print request from the print instructing unit within a predetermined time after completion of the printing operation.