Recording device

Abstract

Image signals received by a facsimile receiver are stored in a scan converter. The scan converter repeatedly reads out the stored image signals and supplies them to an acousto-optic modulator. The acousto-optic modulator modulates a recording laser beam with the supplied image signals. The modulated laser beam is deflected by a deflector to scan a photosensitive recording medium to record an image thereon. The scan converter first reads out a first part of the stored image signals corresponding to the first scan line. After the first part of the stored image signals has been recorded on one photosensitive recording medium, the scan converter again reads out the same part of the stored image signals and the laser beam modulated with the same image signals is caused to scan another photosensitive recording medium. After the first part of the stored image signals corresponding to the first scan line has been recorded on all the photosensitive recording media, a second part of the stored image signals corresponding to the second scan line is read out from the scan converter to be recorded on the photosensitive recording media. Thus, all the stored image signals of an image are recorded on all the photosensitive recording media in parallel, whereby a plurality of hard copies of an image can be obtained from the same image signals.

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