Image forming apparatus for processing according to separation sheet

• US 6,118,544 A
• Filed: 12/22/1997
• Issued: 09/12/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Rao, Gururaj
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancuso, Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): COOPERRIDER, FRED E
• Application Number:
  US08/996,430
• Time in Patent Office: 995 Days
• Field of Search: 395/117, 358/1.18
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00376 Means for identifying a mark sheet or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32486 Storage for making a plurality of copies or reproductions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32561 using a programmed control device, e.g. a microprocessor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence

Abstract

An image forming apparatus including scanner section for reading an image of documents and an image of a separation sheet, a circuit for recognizing the image of the separation sheet from the image of the documents, a determining circuit for determining a processing for the image of the documents based on the image of the separation sheet, an operation panel for receiving a processing instruction for the image of the documents, and a processing circuit for processing the image of the documents based on the separation sheet and the processing instruction.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

means for making a setting for recognizing a separation sheet upon receipt of a forming instruction of an image and a test printing instruction;

first reading means for reading an image on an original by use of an ADF and an image reading section, and discharging the separation sheet and the original separately;

outputting means for testing for printing on the basis of the read image and, printing on an instruction sheet detailed information on a job for which the setting is made by the setting means, so as to output the instruction sheet along with a test copy;

second reading means for, when a user has determined that there is a correction necessary to be made to the test copy and placed a predetermined mark at a position corresponding to the correction on the instruction sheet output with the detail information thereon by the outputting means, reading the instruction sheet;

third reading means for reading a separation sheet inserted to indicate the correction in accordance with the instruction sheet read by the second reading means; and

means for, after adjusting the setting of the setting means on the basis of the instruction sheet read by the second reading means and the separation sheet read by the third reading means, performing image formation by making a necessary number of copies on the basis of the image read by the first reading means.

4. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second reading means includes

means for preliminarily registering a size of the instruction sheet;

and

means for recognizing the instruction sheet from a group of documents and the instruction sheet based on a size registered by the registering means.

5. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second reading means includes

means for preliminarily registering a size of the instruction sheet;

and

means for recognizing the instruction sheet from a group of documents and the instruction sheet based on a paper characteristic registered by the registering means.

6. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second reading means includes

means for reading a pattern and processing a certain area based thereon when the instruction sheet is of a high transmissivity having the pattern for appointing the certain area.

7. An image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second reading means includes

means for reading an image of the instruction sheet;

and

means for reading a pattern and processing an image of the instruction sheet according to a certain area when the instruction sheet is of a high transmissivity having the pattern for appointing the certain area.

2. An image forming apparatus comprising:

means for, upon receipt of image information and a forming instruction of an image, testing for image forming in accordance with part of the forming instruction and outputting the formed image;

means for reading an instruction sheet which gives an instruction for a necessary correction to be made to the formed image that has been output from the test means; and

means for adjusting, in accordance with the instruction read by the reading means, a setting that has been made on the basis of the forming instruction, and forming the image by use of the image information on the basis of the adjusted setting;

wherein the reading means includes

means for preliminarily registering a size of the instruction sheet; and

means for recognizing the instruction sheet from a group of documents and the instruction sheet based on a size registered by the registering means.

3. An image forming apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the reading means includes

means for recognizing the instruction sheet from the group of documents and the instruction sheet based on a paper characteristic registered by the registering means.

8. An image forming apparatus comprising:

means for reading an instruction sheet including a content of a process to be executed;

means for forming an image in accordance with the content of the process read by the reading means; and

means for outputting a sheet indicating an error to an output position indicated by the instruction sheet when the process whose content has been read by the reading means is not executable;

wherein the reading means includes

means for preliminarily registering a size of the instruction sheet; and

means for recognizing the instruction sheet from a group of documents and the instruction sheet based on a size registered by the registering means.

9. An image forming apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the reading means includes

means for recognizing the instruction sheet from the group of documents and the instruction sheet based on a size registered by the registering means.