Sheet finishing apparatus

Details Sheet finishing apparatus Sheet finishing apparatus

2005-03-22

2008-08-05

Crawford, Gene O. (Department: 3651)

Sheet-material associating

Associating or disassociating

Sheet associating

C270S058080, C270S058140, C270S058180

Reexamination Certificate

active

07407156

ABSTRACT:
A sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention includes a gate for conveying sheets of paper ejected from an image forming apparatus by switching to a first conveying path requiring post processing or to a second conveying path requiring no post processing and a manual introduction unit for post-processing the sheets of paper conveyed via the first conveying path by a processing mechanism and ejecting them to a first paper ejection tray and manually leading sheets of paper requiring post processing to the processing mechanism, and when the post process is executed in a manual mode, switches the gate to the second conveying path, and when sheets of paper are taken in from the image forming apparatus, ejects the sheets of paper to a second paper ejection tray via the second conveying path.

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