Patent Document ID: 6118544
Application ID: 08996430
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: means for making a setting for recognizing a separation sheet upon receipt of a forming instruction of an image and a test printing instruction; first reading means for reading an image on an original by use of an ADF and an image reading section, and discharging the separation sheet and the original separately; outputting means for testing for printing on the basis of the read image and, printing on an instruction sheet detailed information on a job for which the setting is made by the setting means, so as to output the instruction sheet along with a test copy; second reading means for, when a user has determined that there is a correction necessary to be made to the test copy and placed a predetermined mark at a position corresponding to the correction on the instruction sheet output with the detail information thereon by the outputting means, reading the instruction sheet; third reading means for reading a separation sheet inserted to indicate the correction in accordance with the instruction sheet read by the second reading means; and means for, after adjusting the setting of the setting means on the basis of the instruction sheet read by the second reading means and the separation sheet read by the third reading means, performing image formation by making a necessary number of copies on the basis of the image read by the first reading means.