Patent ID: 7532838
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet, based on image data of a job; a sheet ejection tray on which to stack sheets having been formed with an image; a shifting unit that shifts and stacks the sheets onto the sheet ejection tray; an operation section to set an image forming condition of the job; a control unit to control image forming; a sort mode to operate the shifting unit; a double sided mode to form an image on both sides of a sheet; and a single sided mode to form an image on a single side of a sheet, wherein, the operation section comprises a cuttable sheet quantity input section to input a cuttable quantity of sheets as an image forming condition, and in a case where an image forming order starts with an Nth page and ends with a first page, N denoting a page quantity in the image data, if a quantity of image forming sheets in the job is within an inputted cuttable sheet quantity, the control unit performs control to form an image based on a composite image of image data and a cut guide attached to the image data only on a last image forming page; and if the quantity of image forming sheets in the job exceeds the inputted cuttable sheet quantity, the control unit performs control to: