Patent ID: 6734999
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprising:an image reading unit which reads a plurality of documents successively to generate image data thereof; an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet based on the image data generated by said image reading unit; a detecting unit which detects whether the document to be read by said image reading unit is a specifying document or not, wherein the specifying document denotes a document which is read in a state different from other documents in the plurality of documents read by said image reading unit; a first sheet feeding unit to supply a first sheet for forming an image thereon; a second sheet feeding unit to supply a second sheet different from the first sheet; and a controller which makes said first sheet feeding unit supply the first sheet for forming an image thereon and which makes said second sheet feeding unit supply the second sheet instead of the first sheet when said detecting unit detects the specifying document.