Automatic sheet feeding device with selectively applied pressure member

摘要

An automatic sheet feeding device includes a mounting unit for mounting a stack of sheets, a feeder for feeding each sheet of the stack of sheets, and a pressing unit for pressing the stack of sheets against the feeder by operating on the stack of sheets whenever necessary after feeding a sheet, a recording unit for recording the number of operations of the pressing unit, and a controller for causing the pressing unit to operate when a sheet feeding operation of the feeder starts after the number of operations of the pressing unit has reached a predetermined number.