摘要 |
PURPOSE:To prevent a sheet from being stapled by mixing other sheet by mistake, by controlling a start of the next image forming operation in accordance with the next image forming mode, when a sheet exists in a staple tray. CONSTITUTION:By depressing a staple mode set key 625 provided on an operating part of a body, the device is set to a staple mode, and by depressing a copy start key 604, an operation is started. If there is no paper, a normal operation is started, and if there is document, a staple processing is executed automatically at every one circulation of the original by recirculating document feeder RDF, and when there is no document, an operation for discharging one sheet of a BOOK copy to the stable tray is executed. In this case, at the time of a state that the document is left and exists, 'Please take the paper in the staple tray' is displayed on a display part of the operating part, it is displayed so that a user takes paper in the tray, and the operation is inhibited until the sheet in the tray is gone. |