Patent ID: 7389084
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus which forms an image on a sheet; a plurality of sheet storage units each of which store sheets to be fed to said image forming apparatus; and a temporary storage apparatus comprising: a direct path through which the sheet fed from said pluarlity of sheet storage units to said image forming apparatus without being stored in the temporary storage tray; and a control unit configured to control sheet feeding so that, when said image forming apparatus forms an image on the sheet in a first mode, sheets are fed to said image forming apparatus through the direct path without being stored in the temporary storage tray, and when said image forming apparatus forms an image on the sheet in a second mode in which a feeding interval of sheets fed to said image forming apparatus is longer than that in the first mode, sheets are temporarily stored in the temporary storage tray before being fed to said image forming apparatus.