Patent ID: 6508169
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: G03G,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus for producing a printed product, comprising:a plurality of image forming devices to form images on a plurality of recording sheets based on a plurality of image data arbitrarily obtained, wherein each of said image forming devices forms a separate image on a separate recording sheet in parallel with the other image forming devices; a sheet finisher to accept said plurality of recording sheets ejected from said plurality of image forming devices and apply a designated finish-processing to said plurality of recording sheets on which said images are already formed by said plurality of image forming devices; a discriminator to discriminate between monochrome image data and color image data among said plurality of image data, when each of said plurality of image data corresponds to each of a plurality of sheet pages; and a controller for recognizing an inserting page number of a color-image sheet within monochrome-image sheets and performing an arithmetic processing to determine a starting time of forming images on said color-image sheet in relation to starting times of forming images on said monochrome-image sheets.