US 12,088,768 B2
Image forming system
Tsuyoshi Muto, Ibaraki (JP); and Keisuke Aizono, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/472,304.
Application 18/472,304 is a continuation of application No. 17/972,800, filed on Oct. 25, 2022, granted, now 11,805,211.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-193527 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0015255 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00639 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1252 (2013.01); G06F 3/1255 (2013.01); H04N 1/00641 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form images on a plurality of sheets; and
a controller configured to receive a print job in which the sheets on which the images are formed by the image forming unit are folded in a plurality of sheet bundles, and control the image forming unit based on the print job,
wherein, for the print job in which the plurality of sheet bundles including a first sheet bundle and a second sheet bundle formed after the first sheet bundle are formed, the controller is configured to selectively execute a first image forming mode and a second image forming mode,
the first image forming mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the images on the sheets in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle, and
the second image forming mode being a mode in which the image forming unit forms the images on the sheets in such a manner that page numbers of sheets included in the first sheet bundle are larger than page numbers of sheets included in the second sheet bundle.