Patent ID: 8205878
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a sheet conveyance path in which a sheet is conveyed; at least one sheet feeding mechanism to supply the sheet to the sheet conveyance path; a sheet conveyance mechanism to convey the sheet in a sheet conveyance direction; a detection mechanism to detect a position of a side of the sheet parallel to the sheet conveyance direction; a movement mechanism to move the sheet in a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction towards a reference position; a memory to store reference position information specific to the at least one sheet feeding mechanism, respectively; a movement control mechanism to control a movement distance of the movement mechanism based on the detected position and the reference position information specific to a selected one of the at least one sheet feeding mechanism; and a reference position calculator mechanism to calculate the reference position based on the detected position, wherein a result calculated by the reference position calculator mechanism is stored in the memory as the reference position information.