Patent ID: 8639146
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: B41J,B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a notifying unit configured to notify a user of a discharging unit for removing one or more sheets from the discharging unit in a case where the one or more sheets is discharged to the discharging unit; and a determining unit configured to determine, in a case where sheets which belong to one group are discharged to a plurality of discharging units, whether one or more sheets belonging to the one group discharged to one of the plurality of discharging units is removed from the one of the plurality of discharging units, wherein the notifying unit notifies a user of another one of the plurality of discharging units for removing another one or more sheets belonging to the one group when the determining unit determines that the one or more sheets belonging to the one group is removed from the one of the plurality of discharging units.