摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily recognize an other discharged paper tray switched from the former discharged paper tray used as a place to discharge the paper according to a full loading status of the former discharged paper tray. SOLUTION: During multiple successive repeating of usual printing processes of printing on paper with multiple printing (image forming) demands from a personal computer (outside) followed by discharge of the printed paper (printed matter) to the discharged paper tray as a current place to discharge the paper, a printer temporarily prohibits the usual printing processes when the discharged paper tray as the current place to discharge the paper is fully filled, and searches for the discharged paper tray where the paper can be discharged among the other discharged paper trays. When the discharged paper tray where the paper can be discharged (a place to discharge the next printed matter) is found, system information processing is performed wherein information indicating the discharged paper tray and the like are printed on the paper as a system information and the printed paper with the system information thereon is discharged to the current discharged paper tray, and the place to discharge the paper is changed to the previously found discharged paper tray where the paper can be discharged.</p> |