摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a countermeasure to increases in a resource requirement and process time for an N-in-1 output in the state of at least two image forming apparatuses serially connected so as to enable an image forming by individually sharing the processes of at least two zones of a recording sheet. <P>SOLUTION: In the case of at least two image forming apparatuses serially connected so as to enable image forming by individually sharing the processes of at least two zones of a recording sheet, with each of the apparatuses including an image development part for developing an image on image memory, the image to be formed in each respective image forming apparatus, the image development part of a first image forming apparatus develops an image to be formed in a first zone of the recording sheet, the image development part of a second image forming apparatus develops an image to be formed in a second zone on the same side of the first zone of the recording sheet and the first and second image forming apparatuses form images on the same side of the same recording sheet. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |