Abstract: Disclosed an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to form images on sheets based on image data of a document composed of a plurality of document pages; a sheet finishing section to perform sheet finishing to the sheets; a first input section to receive an input regarding divisions of the document pages by the sheet finishing to set the input divisions; a second input section to receive setting of addition of a front cover; and a control section to allow the image forming section to form an image on a first sheet of each of the divisions as the front cover when the first input section sets the divisions of the document pages by the sheet finishing and the second input section sets the addition of the front cover.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image forming system including: an image forming unit for forming images based on a plurality of document pages on a plurality of recording media to form a printed matter; a special sheet feeding unit for storing a special sheet group constituting one set in which a plurality of different types of special sheets are arranged in a predetermined order; a special sheet setting input unit for accepting the number of the special sheets constituting the one set and a page of which the special sheet is inserted into the plurality of recording media; a division setting input unit for accepting an instruction for dividing the printed matter into a plurality of groups by carrying out a post-processing for the printed matter; and a control unit for setting a special sheet inserted into a first place in each of the plurality of groups to a special sheet arranged at a top of the one set when the special sheet setting input unit accepts the page of which the special sheet is inserted and when the div

Abstract: A catalytic composition for hydrotreating of hydrocarbons is made in which a metallic component for hydrogenation is carried on a carrier formed of zeolite Y with aluminum and titanium inserted therein and a porous inorganic oxide. The zeolite Y has: unit cell dimension in a range from 24.25 to 24.60 ?, crystallinity of 95% or more, specific surface area of 500 m2/g or more, total pore volume of a group of pores each having a diameter of 600 ? or below in a range from 0.45 to 0.70 ml/g, pore volume of a group of pores each having a diameter in a range from 100 to 600 ? in a range from 0.10 to 0.40 ml/g, and pore volume of a group of pores each having a diameter in a range from 35 to 50 ? in a range 0.03 to 0.15 ml/g.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section for forming images on papers based on image data of a document having a plurality of document pages and an additional image which is previously set; a post-processing device for carrying out a post-processing for the papers; a first input section for inputting and setting a division of the post-processing of the document pages; a second input section for setting the additional image so as to be formed on a first document page of the plurality of document pages; and a control section for causing the image forming section to form the additional image on the first document page of each division when the division of the post-processing of the document pages is set by the first input section and when the additional image is set by the second input section so as to be formed on the first document page of the plurality of document pages.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on sheets, includes: a storage unit for storing the number of jobs in which a discharge position of the sheets is switched; a switching unit for switching the discharge position of the sheets; a sheet discharge unit for stacking the sheets; and a control unit for controlling the switching unit to switch the discharge position of the sheets per the number of jobs, which is stored in the storage unit, to discharge the sheets.

Abstract: This invention provides a booklet making method including a cutting size setting step of setting a cutting size on the basis of a difference amount between a layout position of an image when a layout interval between images printed on a printing medium is minimum and a layout position of an image when the layout interval between images is maximum; an image printing step of adjusting the layout interval between the images printed on the printing medium in accordance with a position of the printing medium upon binding, and printing an image on the printing medium; a binding step of binding a plurality of printing media bearing images to prepare a printing medium bundle; a folding step of folding the printing medium in half; and a cutting step of cutting an edge of the printing medium bundle on the basis of the cutting size.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image obtaining section to obtain a document image data including a text image data and a tab image data, an image forming section to form an image on a paper having a first side and a second side based on the document image data, an inverse conveyance section to inverse the paper in which the image based on the document image data is formed on the first side and re-convey the paper to the image forming section and a control section to carry out a control to divide the document image data into the text image data and the tab image data, and to form a tab image based on the tab image data on the second side of the paper which is inversed and conveyed at a position plane symmetrical to the tab image formed on the first side of the paper after a text image and the tab image are formed on the first side of the paper based on the document image data.

Abstract: A catalytic composition for hydrotreating of hydrocarbons in which a metallic component for hydrogenation is carried on a carrier comprising zeolite Y with aluminum and titanium inserted therein and a porous inorganic oxide, the zeolite Y having the following characteristics: (a) unit cell dimension (UD) in a range from 24.25 to 24.60 ?, (b) crystallinity of 95% or more, (c) specific surface area (SA) of 500 m2/g or more, (d) total pore volume (PVt) of a group of pores each having a diameter of 600 ? or below in a range from 0.45 to 0.70 ml/g, (e) pore volume (PVm) of a group of pores each having a diameter in a range from 100 to 600 ? in a range from 0.10 to 0.40 ml/g, (f) pore volume (PVs) of a group of pores each having a diameter in a range from 35 to 50 ? in a range 0.03 to 0.15 ml/g, and (g) percentage of 4-coordinate aluminum atoms against total aluminum atoms in the zeolite of 60 atom % or more.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a conveyance section which conveys at least one sheet of a second special sheet group so as to be inserted between two special sheets of a first special sheet group on a stacking section. A rest of special sheets which belong to the same set as a special sheet of the second special sheet group having been last supplied is supplied and ejected to a sheet ejection destination other than the stacking section before a special sheet of the second special sheet group is inserted after the latter sheet of the two special sheets of the first special sheet group are supplied.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on sheets, includes: a storage unit for storing the number of jobs in which a discharge position of the sheets is switched; a switching unit for switching the discharge position of the sheets; a sheet discharge unit for stacking the sheets; and a control unit for controlling the switching unit to switch the discharge position of the sheets per the number of jobs, which is stored in the storage unit, to discharge the sheets.

Abstract: Disclosed an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to form images on sheets based on image data of a document composed of a plurality of document pages; a sheet finishing section to perform sheet finishing to the sheets; a first input section to receive an input regarding divisions of the document pages by the sheet finishing to set the input divisions; a second input section to receive setting of addition of a front cover; and a control section to allow the image forming section to form an image on a first sheet of each of the divisions as the front cover when the first input section sets the divisions of the document pages by the sheet finishing and the second input section sets the addition of the front cover.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of recording images of a double sided original on both sides of a recording sheet, the image forming apparatus having, an image reader for reading images of the double sided original, a first setting section for setting a binding direction of the double sided original, a second setting section for setting a binding direction of the recording sheet with relating to the binding direction set by the first setting section, and an image rotator for making a required amount of rotation of an image read by the image reader, based on the binding directions having been set by the first setting section and by the second setting section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section for forming images on papers based on image data of a document having a plurality of document pages and an additional image which is previously set; a post-processing device for carrying out a post-processing for the papers; a first input section for inputting and setting a division of the post-processing of the document pages; a second input section for setting the additional image so as to be formed on a first document page of the plurality of document pages; and a control section for causing the image forming section to form the additional image on the first document page of each division when the division of the post-processing of the document pages is set by the first input section and when the additional image is set by the second input section so as to be formed on the first document page of the plurality of document pages.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a document conveying section that reversely conveys documents such that a front side and back side of the documents pass through a reading position, an image reading section for reading images on the documents conveyed to the reading position and generating image data, an image forming section for forming images on recording media, according to the image data, an input section for inputting designation whether the images are to be formed on both sides or on one side of the recording media, and a control section for controlling image reading by the image reading section and image forming by the image forming section, wherein the control section controls the image forming section to form an image according to image data in a condition where a single job includes both single-sided and double-sided image recording, correspondingly to the designation inputted via the input section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a dividing section which divides a plurality of pages into groups, each group including at least one page; an inputting section which inputs different text strings for each group; a creating section which creates a composite image of an image of a page and a text string which is inputted for the group including the page; and a printing section which prints the composite image on a sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image forming system including: an image forming unit for forming images based on a plurality of document pages on a plurality of recording media to form a printed matter; a special sheet feeding unit for storing a special sheet group constituting one set in which a plurality of different types of special sheets are arranged in a predetermined order; a special sheet setting input unit for accepting the number of the special sheets constituting the one set and a page of which the special sheet is inserted into the plurality of recording media; a division setting input unit for accepting an instruction for dividing the printed matter into a plurality of groups by carrying out a post-processing for the printed matter; and a control unit for setting a special sheet inserted into a first place in each of the plurality of groups to a special sheet arranged at a top of the one set when the special sheet setting input unit accepts the page of which the special sheet is inserted and when the div

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a conveyance section which conveys at least one sheet of a second special sheet group so as to be inserted between two special sheets of a first special sheet group on a stacking section. A rest of special sheets which belong to the same set as a special sheet of the second special sheet group having been last supplied is supplied and ejected to a sheet ejection destination other than the stacking section before a special sheet of the second special sheet group is inserted after the latter sheet of the two special sheets of the first special sheet group are supplied.

Abstract: In a copying machine having an image memory that stores image data, a DRAM control IC that repetitively reads out image data from the image memory, and an image forming section that forms the images for the specified number of copies, a write processing section having a number of pixels counter that counts the number of pixels included in the image data for the predetermined number of pages at the time of reading, a first memory that stores the count value for the nth copy, a second memory that stores the count value for the (n+1)th copy, and an image control CPU that compares the count value stored in the first memory with the count value stored in the second memory and thereby judges the occurrence of errors in the print process if the two counts are not equal to each other and carries out error processing.

Abstract: A sheet finisher includes: a sheet stacker for stacking sheets outputted from an image forming apparatus to form a sheet bundle; a binder for binding the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacker; an ejection device for ejecting out of the sheet finisher at least one of the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacker and the sheet bundle which has been bound; an ejection tray for stacking the ejected sheet bundle or the bound sheet bundle sequentially; and a controller for controlling the ejection device to make the bound sheet bundle to wait on the sheet stacker, to make a sheet outputted from the apparatus which have not been bound to stack sequentially on the bound sheet bundle, and to make the bound sheet bundle and the sheet stacked on the bound sheet bundle as a unit to eject to the ejection tray.

Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus combined with a finisher for applying finish processing such as stapling. The image-forming apparatus includes: a reading section to read an original image so as to generate image data of the original image; a designating section to designate a first direction of the original image to be read by the reading section and a second direction of an output image to be ejected; an image-processing section to apply image-processing, which includes an image-rotation processing, to the image data so as to generate processed image data; a controlling section to control a rotation angle to be employed for rotating the image data by the image-rotation processing, referring to the first direction and the second direction, so that a direction of the output image coincides with the second direction; and an image-forming section to form the output image based on the processed image data.