Patent ID: 9541875
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: B41J,B65H,G03G

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an apparatus body formed with an opening; an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet; a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet on which the image has been formed by the image forming portion; a storage portion configured to store, inside the apparatus body, the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit; a sheet movement unit configured to move the sheet stored in the storage portion until the sheet is exposed outside of the apparatus body via the opening; a memory portion configured to store first information about a storing state of the storage portion; and a control portion configured to receive an image forming instruction to perform image formation on a predetermined number of sheets, wherein, in a case where the predetermined number of sheets is greater than an upper limit number of sheets allowed to be stored in the storage portion when the image forming instruction is received, the control portion provides notification of a plurality of methods, each for causing the sheet moving unit to expose the predetermined number of sheets which are objects of the image forming instruction outside of the apparatus body via the opening, based on the first information stored in the memory portion and second information about the sheets which are the objects of the image forming instruction, and controls the conveyance unit and the sheet movement unit based on a method selected from among the plurality of methods, and wherein, in a case where the predetermined number of sheets is less than or equal to the upper limit number of sheets, the control portion does not provide notification of the plurality of methods and controls the conveyance unit in such a way as to convey the predetermined number of sheets to the storage portion.