Patent ID: 11861251
Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image forming system comprising:
an input device that receives an input of an instruction from a user;
an image processing device that executes an RIP operation including generating a raster image by rasterizing print data represented by PDL data, with respect to each page;
an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium;
a delivery device including a reversing mechanism that reverses the recording medium on which the image has been formed, and configured to deliver the recording medium; and
a controller including a processor, and configured to cause, when the processor executes a control program, the image forming device to form the image represented by the raster image on the recording medium, with respect to each page, according to an order of generation of the raster image, and causes the delivery device to deliver the recording medium without reversing, or to reverse the recording medium with the reversing mechanism and to deliver the recording medium, according to an instruction indicating face orientation at delivery, received through the input device,
the controller being configured to cause the image processing device to:
execute the RIP operation in a forward order with respect to the print data, upon receipt, through the input device, of a first instruction indicating one of a combination of reverse order and face-up orientation, and a combination of forward order and face-down, as the combination of the sorting order and the face orientation at delivery of the recording medium on which the image has been formed; and
execute the RIP operation in the reverse order with respect to the print data, upon receipt, through the input device, of a second instruction indicating one of a combination of forward order and face-up orientation, and a combination of reverse order and face-down, as the combination of the sorting order and the face orientation at delivery.