Patent ID: 6483603
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprising:a photoconductive element for forming a toner image thereon; an intermediate image transfer body provided with a plurality of reference marks defining reference positions for a transfer of the toner image, and capable of simultaneously holding two different toner images of a reference image size transferred from said photoconductive element, said image forming apparatus transferring said two toner images from said intermediate image transfer body to two papers fed one by one; a document reading unit for sequentially reading two documents of the reference image size sequentially fed from an ADF (Automatic Document Feeder); and control means for storing, when said document reading unit reads the two documents, image data representative of a second document in a delay memory and outputting, after a first document has been read, said image data representative of said second document by delaying said image data by a period of time corresponding to a difference between an interval between the papers and an interval between the documents.