Patent ID: 6272297
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A delivery destination control method for forming an image on a medium in accordance with a mode that is set and controlling a destination to which the medium with the image on it is to be delivered, comprising the steps:a first step of selecting and setting only a specific mode of a plurality of instructed modes when a cardboard mode for forming an image on cardboard paper and a finishing mode capable of designating paper finishing processing, which cannot be simultaneously executed, are simultaneously instructed; anda second step of controlling the delivery destination of a medium having an image formed by an image forming section in correspondence with the specific mode selected and set in the first step such that when the cardboard mode is set in the first step, the delivery destination of cardboard paper having the image formed by said image forming section is a first delivery section corresponding to delivery of cardboard paper, and when the finishing mode is set in the first step, the delivery destination of normal paper having the image formed by said image forming section is a second delivery section corresponding to finishing processing.