Image forming system, image forming apparatus and print server

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8917410
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12424425

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An image forming apparatus has: pluralities of sheet storage units; a printing unit; a sheet driving unit that feeds a sheet of paper from the sheet storage units to the printing unit; a group setting maintaining unit that forms a group of the sheet storage units; a residual sheet amount detecting unit that detects sheet empty on any of the sheet storage units in the group; a sheet storage switching control unit that controls the sheet driving unit to select another one of the sheet storage units in the same group for feeding a sheet, if the residual sheet amount detecting unit detects the sheet empty; and a sheet empty warning unit that warns a user of the sheet empty detected by the residual sheet amount detecting unit.

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KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC1-2-28 TAMATSUKURI CHUO-KU OSAKA-SHI OSAKA 5408585 ?5408585

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hashimoto, Shinichi Osaka, JP 187 2984
Ishizu, Ryuichi Osaka, JP 15 44
Miyahara, Norifumi Osaka, JP 29 49
Nakayama, Toru Osaka, JP 119 889
Nishikawa, Yoshiteru Osaka, JP 11 68
Takeuchi, Naoki Osaka, JP 52 314
Tao, Kozo Osaka, JP 30 145
Yamagami, Hiromi Osaka, JP 7 34

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