Patent ID: 7296794
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a storing portion in which a plurality of sheet-shaped printing media are stored; a first feeding unit capable of feeding one printing medium after another from said printing media stored in said storing portion to the outside of said storing portion; a second feeding unit that further feeds said printing, medium, having been fed by said first feeding unit, along a predetermined feeding path; a timing detection unit that detects a timing when said printing medium reaches a predetermined position along said feeding path; a protruding amount detection unit that detects a protruding amount of a subsequent printing medium protruding from said storing portion in accordance with said second unit feeding a preceding printing medium prior to said subsequent printing medium; and a feeding control unit that determines a timing of starting the feeding of said subsequent printing medium according to said timing of said preceding printing medium reaching said predetermined position detected by said timing detection unit and said protruding amount of said subsequent printing medium detected by said protruding amount detection unit.