Patent ID: 7477859
Filing Date: 2009-01-13
Classification: B41J,G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: (a) an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet based on image data; (b) a sheet discharge tray on which the sheet with the image that has been formed is stacked; and (c) a controller that controls image formation, wherein the image forming apparatus has a one sided mode in which image formation is carried out only on one side of the sheet and a two sided mode in which image formation is carried out on both sides of the sheet, and wherein when the two sided mode is carried out the controller controls a composite image to be formed in which a cutting mark is attached to the image data for a first surface only or a second surface only of the sheet; and wherein when a total number of pages in the image data is N and image formation is carried out according to the image data starting from a first page successively up to an N