IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING DISCHARGED DOCUMENT SENSOR DETECTING EXISTENCE OF DISCHARGED DOCUMENT

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes: a document feed section; a document reading section; a discharged document sensor detecting the discharged document already read by the document reading section; an image storage section storing a document image obtained through the reading by the document reading section; an image formation section performing an image formation operation in which a toner image of the document image is formed on paper; a fixing section performing fixing processing of heating and pressurizing the paper on which the image has been formed to fix the toner image on the paper; and a control section, upon judgment, with reference to a signal of the discharged document sensor before image formation of a predefined number of pages of document images stored in the image storage section, that the discharged document exists, stopping the image formation of the predefined number of pages of document images.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a document feed section individually feeding loaded documents; a document reading section optically reading an image of the document fed by the document feed section; a discharged document sensor detecting an existence of a discharged document already read by the document reading section; an image storage section storing a document image obtained through the reading by the document reading section; an image formation section performing an image formation operation in which a toner image of the document image stored in the image storage section is formed on paper; a fixing section performing fixing processing of heating and pressurizing the paper on which the toner image has been formed by the images formation section to fix the toner image on the paper; and a control section performing control of, upon judgment with reference to a signal of the discharged document sensor that the discharged document exists at time of ending image formation of up to a predefined number of pages traced back from a last page of a plurality of number of pages of document images stored in the image storage section, stopping the image formation operation performed by the image formation section and causing the image formation section not to perform the image formation of the predefined number of pages of document images.