To make it possible to easily judge for each job that to which user transfer paper belongs to, by ejecting, for each job, guard sheet where identification data showing that on which function the printing job is based is recorded.
For each printing job, guard sheet where identification data showing on which function the printing job is based is recorded is ejected. That is, after the finish of a printing process corresponding to each printing job, a signal for recording job identification information onto the guard sheet is transmitted to a laser unit 28 from a control unit 27, and the job identification information is printed on the guard sheet and ejected. In the case the printing job is a printing process for a document to be copied, as the job identification information recorded on the guard sheet, for example, 'the serial number of the JOB', 'copy' showing that the kind of the printing job is the printing process for the document to be copied, and copying conditions ('document size and paper size', etc.), are used.
SASAHARA TATSUO
NAKAMA MASARU
MINAMINO HIROHARU
AKUTA HIDEHIKO
NAKADA ASAMI