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US 2014/0192374 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorEiji Shinohara
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus having a function to erase an image formed on a recoding medium is provided. The image forming apparatus has an operation panel which, in a first mode in which an image forming process and an erasing process are not executable, accepts selection of any mode of a second mode in which the image forming process and the erasing process are executable, and a third mode in which the image forming process not executable and the erasing process is executable.
Claims10
In an image forming apparatus having a function to erase an image;
- the image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium;
- an erasing unit to erase an image formed on a recording medium;
- an operation panel which, in a first mode in which an image forming process by the image forming unit and an erasing process by the erasing unit are not executable, accepts selection of any control mode of a second mode in which the image forming process and the erasing process are executable, and a third mode in which the image forming process is not executable and the erasing process is executable;
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- a control unit which controls the image forming unit and the erasing unit in any control mode of the first mode, the second mode, and the third mode, in response to the selection of the mode of the operation panel.
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