Composite recording apparatus for recording information from different information sources

In a recording apparatus for recording information on copy sheets from multiple sources and including a photosensitive medium, an optical system for projecting an image of an original to be copied onto the medium in an optical copying operation, reproducing means for producing an electrostatic latent image on the medium in accordance with an electric information signal in a reproduction operation, and a sheet receiving tray for receiving sheets discharged from the recording apparatus, and wherein receipt by the apparatus of an electric information signal during an optical copying operation in progress initiates production on the medium of a latent image in accordance with the information signal upon completion of the optical copying operation then in progress, the improvement comprising:

• at least a sorting tray movably connected to the receiving tray for receiving discharged copy sheets upon which information in accodance with electric information signals is recorded, and
• operative means for relatively moving the receiving tray and said sorting tray such that discharged copy sheets of optical copying operations are directed to the receiving tray and discharged sheets of reproduction operations are directed to said sorting tray.