Printer including copy and scan functions
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRen-San Wang, Zhao-Yang Xu, Shun-Wen Li
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Abstract
Copy and scan printing may include scanning, by scanner disposed along a paper path between a paper delivery roller and a paper pickup roller, content of documents (302). Further, copy and scan printing may include determining whether the documents are to be copied (304), in response to a determination that the documents are to be copied, determining whether a page count of the documents to be copied is available (306), and generating copies of the documents (310).
Claims14
A printing apparatus including copy and scan functions comprising:
- a scanner disposed along a paper path between a paper delivery roller and a paper pickup roller, the scanner configured to scan content of documents;
- a processor;
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- a memory storing machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- determine whether the documents are to be copied;
- in response to a determination that the documents are to be copied, determine whether a page count of the documents to be copied is available;
- in response to a determination that the page count of the documents to be copied is not available, scan the documents from an input tray upon removal of any blank papers from the input tray and placement of the documents in the input tray;
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- generate copies of the documents based on the scan of the documents from the input tray.
The printing apparatus including copy and scan functions according to claim I, wherein the printing apparatus including copy and scan functions comprises a laser printer.
A method for copying and scanning, the method comprising:
- scanning, by a scanner disposed along a paper path between a paper delivery roller and a paper pickup roller, content of documents;
- determining, by a processor, whether the documents are to be copied;
- in response to a determination that the documents are to be copied, determining whether a page count of the documents to be copied is available;
- in response to a determination that the page count of the documents to be copied is not available, scanning the documents from an input tray upon removal of any blank papers from the input tray and placement of the documents in the input tray;
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- generating copies of the documents based on the scan of the documents from the input tray.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon machine readable instructions for copy and scan printing, the machine readable instructions, when executed, cause a processor to:
- scan, by a scanner disposed along a paper path between a paper delivery roller and a paper pickup roller, content of documents;
- determine whether the documents are to be copied;
- in response to a determination that the documents are to be copied, determine whether a page count of the documents to be copied is available;
- in response to a determination that the page count of the documents to be copied is not available, generate a prompt to place the documents in an input tray without any blank papers;
- scan the documents from the input tray;
- generate a prompt to place blank papers in the input tray;
- and
- generate copies of the documents based on the scan of the documents from the input tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.