PURPOSE: To provide an image processor automatically reusing an unnecessary form which has already been fed.
CONSTITUTION: An operation instructing sheets (job control sheets) 10 and 12 are set on the leading edges of each document bundle, so that the operation instructing sheet and the document job-set by it are sequentially carried to the original reading part of the image processor by an automatic document feeder 2, etc. The operation instructing sheet is identified on the boundary line of the job when the set of the document bundle of a different job is consecutively read out, but when form carriage is already started and form size is the same as that of the present job, the form already carried is carried again toward a transfer part via a form carrying path without performing the transfer on a transfer part. The form size of the next job is different from that of the present job, and when the form which has already been carried is not necessitated, an action for returning it to a paper feeding tray corresponding to the size of the unnecessary sheet.
TANABE EIICHI
KURATA MASAMI
