Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printing apparatus and sheet discharge method therefor
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Application No.: US15070228Application Date: 2016-03-15
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Publication No.: US10052864B2Publication Date: 2018-08-21
- Inventor: Tsutomu Tanaka
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2015-053348 20150317
- Main IPC: B65H31/24
- IPC: B65H31/24 ; B41F21/00 ; B65H39/11 ; B65H31/02 ; B65H43/06 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A controller of a printing apparatus is configured to determine whether there is a stack-full tray, restrict discharging of the printing sheet to the stack-full tray and reduce the number of copies made in the sort printing process, store the page number of the page currently printed in association with a stack-full tray, obtain image data corresponding to the page associated with the stack-full tray onwards when it is determined that the full stack status of the stack-full trays is released, and the obtained print images with making the tray of which status is changed from the full status to the non-full status.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160271932A1 PRINTING APPARATUS AND SHEET DISCHARGE METHOD THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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