Recording apparatus including a continuous transfer web
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro Hirayama, Susumu Sugiura
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes an image bearing member, image forming device for forming images on the image bearing member, a transfer medium, image transferring device for transferring the images from the image bearing member onto the transfer medium, a feeder for feeding the transfer medium to a transfer station, and control system for operatively controlling the transfer device and the feeder with mutually independently set delay times with respect to the start or the stop of operation of the image formation device.
Claims16
A recording apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member;
- means for forming continual images on said image bearing member;
- means for feeding a continuous transfer material to a transfer station;
- means for transferring the images formed on said image bearing member onto the continuous transfer material;
- means for fixing the transferred images on the transfer material;
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- means, responsive to the start and stop of operation of said image forming means, for controlling the actuation of said feeding means, transferring means, and fixing means at different delayed times from each other to transfer a series of images from said image bearing member onto desired portions of said continuous transfer material irrespective of image location on said image bearing member.
A recording apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising means for moving said transfer material in a retracting direction and wherein said control means operatively controls said retracting means before a subsequent image transfer takes place.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.