Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorEun-Young Baek
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided in which a printing part is provided for printing an image on paper and a scanning part is positioned beside the printing part. A main circuit board is disposed therebetween. The main circuit board is provided with an image processor to process image data. The scanning part includes a scanner for scanning an image of a document, a document feeder for feeding the document to the scanner, and a document discharger for ejecting the document after scanning the image. The scanner is aligned to scan the image of the document that is vertically conveyed in a lengthwise direction.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing part for printing an image on paper;
- a scanning part positioned beside the printing part, the scanning part including
- a document feeder for feeding a document to a scanner;
- a scanner for scanning an image of the document, the scanner being aligned to scan the image of the document conveyed from the document feeder in a substantially vertical direction;
- and
- a document discharger for ejecting the document after the image is scanned;
- a main circuit board disposed between the scanning part and the printing part;
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- an image processor mounted on the main circuit board to process image data.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing part for printing a first image on a paper;
- a scanning part positioned beside the printing part to scan a second image on a document;
- a main circuit board disposed between the scanning part and the printing part;
- an image processor mounted on the main circuit board to process image data;
- a sub-circuit board connected to the main circuit board;
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- an image sensor mounted on the sub-circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.