Patent ID: 6256473
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprising:an original conveyer which successively supplies original sheets of an original sheet group placed in a specified position to an image reading position;an image reader which reads an image of an original sheet fed to the image reading position;a discriminating section which, when a composite original sheet group obtained by making a first original sheet group comprised of original sheets of an identical size receive an insertion sheet that has the identical size and is to be inserted between arbitrary pages of the original sheet group is set in the specified position, discriminates whether the sheet fed to the image reading position by the original conveyer is the original sheet of the first original sheet group or the insertion sheet; anda controller which forms an image different from the image of the first original sheet group instead of the image of the insertion sheet in an image forming process of the composite original sheet group.