Image forming apparatus and control method therefor

Details Image forming apparatus and control method therefor Image forming apparatus and control method therefor

2008-05-27

2008-05-27

Mackey, Patrick (Department: 3653)

Sheet feeding or delivering

Feeding

Multiple supplies

C271S009050, C399S023000, C399S391000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10765400

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus has a plurality of paper feed units setting index sheets. A storage section stores size information and index number information indicating the number of index sheets per set of paper sheet set in each paper feed unit, and a control section automatically changes the paper feed unit to be used from a first paper feed unit to a second paper feed unit and does not automatically change the paper feed unit to a third paper feed unit when the index sheets in the first paper feed unit are exhausted, the size information and the index number information of the first paper feed unit coinciding with those of the second paper feed unit and at least one of the size information and the index number information of the first paper feed unit not coinciding with those of the third paper feed unit.

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Official Action/Search Report, issued Dec. 14, 2007, in Japanese Patent Application No. 2003-026299.

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