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Image forming apparatus for avoiding a feeding direction restriction when printing

  • US 9,781,302 B2
  • Filed: 01/22/2015
  • Issued: 10/03/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:

  • a memory;

    a controller configured to;

    receive image data,in a case where the image data has a first resolution, store the image data in the memory without halftone processing,in a case where the image data has a second resolution higher than the first resolution, store the image data in the memory after the halftone processing thereof, andperform rotation processing for the image data stored in the memory in accordance with a direction of a sheet; and

    an image forming device configured to form an image on the sheet based on the image data for which the rotation processing is performed,wherein the controller is configured to, in a case where the halftone processing has been performed for the image data stored in the memory and a direction of the sheet does not correspond to a direction of the image data stored in the memory;

    perform, if a type of the sheet is an envelope, a rotation processing of the image data, and cause the image forming device to perform image forming on the sheet based on the rotated image data, andcause, if the type of the sheet is not an envelope, a display device to display an alert screen without performing the rotation processing.

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