Patent ID: 8849177
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G03G,G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming system comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an image; an acquisition unit configured to acquire print setting information; a detection unit configured to detect, if there is a tab sheet print command included in the acquired print setting information, an image orientation and a binding position of the image based on the received image and the acquired printer setting information; a determination unit configured to determine whether an alignment order of tab sheets is an ascending order type or a descending order type based on the detected image orientation and binding position; a sheet feeding unit configured to feed a tab sheet from a first sheet feeding unit in which tab sheets aligned in the ascending order have been set, if the alignment order determined by the determination unit is the ascending order type, and to feed a tab sheet from a second sheet feeding unit in which tab sheets aligned in the descending order have been set, if the alignment order determined by the determination unit is the descending order type; and a printing unit configured to perform printing on the fed tab sheet, wherein the image orientation is a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation.