PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly process the job from another user by outputting paper sheets to another bin when the bin specified by a user is full, and reporting an output destination to a host side. ;SOLUTION: An intermediate language is rasterized by ASIC 305 and written in RAM 307, and a paper feed destination and a paper emerging destination are specified to an engine controller 312 when one page is made printable. The paper feed destination and the paper emerging destination are contained in the head section of printing data, a bin 1 (308) is specified as the paper emerging destination, and the YES direction is selected at the branch 'Is paper emerging destination specified to bin 1 or automatic?'. The bin 1 (308) is judged as full by a sensor 311, and the YES direction is selected at 'Is bin 1 full or not?'. A bin 2 (309) is empty, and the NO direction is selected at the branch 'Is bin 2 full or no?'.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO
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