Patent ID: 8157255
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: B42C,B65H

Abstract:
1. An inserter for feeding an insert-sheet forming a sheet bundle with a printed sheet which is discharged from an image forming apparatus, the inserter comprising: a storing unit that stores the insert-sheet; a sheet-feeding unit that feeds the insert-sheet stored in the storing unit; a conveyance unit that discharges the printed sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus connected upstream of the inserter and the insert-sheet fed by the sheet-feeding unit to a downstream side device connected to downstream of the inserter; and a controller that determines conveying speeds of the insert-sheet and the printed sheet to be discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, wherein the controller determines a conveying speed of a printed sheet, which is discharged from the image forming apparatus at a first speed and discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, as the first speed; the controller determines a conveying speed of a printed sheet, which is discharged from the image forming apparatus at a second speed and discharged to the downstream side device, as the second speed; and the controller determines a conveying speed of the insert-sheet discharged to the downstream side device by the conveyance unit, based on a conveying speed of the printed sheet discharged to the downstream side device, the printed sheet being a sheet discharged first after or last before the insert sheet is discharged to the downstream side device.