Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasaru Igarashi
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Abstract
A recording apparatus such as a laser beam printer has a laser beam unit for forming an image, a cassette for automatically feeding paper sheets, a manual insertion port for allowing manual insertion of paper sheets, a switch to allow selection of the cassette sheet feed or manual insertion sheet feed at the side of the printer, a timer to count a predetermined period of time, and a CPU for switching from the manual insertion sheet feed mode to the cassette sheet feed mode when no paper sheet is manually inserted in the manual insertion sheet feed mode after the time in the timer has elapsed. Undesired accumulation of data designating printing in the cassette sheet feed mode is prevented.
Claims11
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording information generation section for providing recording information and control data;
- recording means for recording on a recording medium recording information provided by said recording information generation section;
- first sheet feed means for feeding the recording medium to said recording means in a first mode;
- second sheet feed means for feeding the recording medium to said recording means in a second mode;
- input means for producing a select signal to manually select either one of the first mode or the second mode;
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- control means for selecting one of said first and second modes in accordance with at least one of control data from said recording information generation section or the select signal from said input means, said control means being operable to inhibit mode switching, during a period of time when a recording operation is being carried out on the recording medium fed in said first mode or said second mode, even though an instruction of switching to another mode occurs based on at least one of the control data or the select signal.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording information generation section for providing recording information;
- recording means for recording on a recording medium recording information provided by said recording information generation section;
- first sheet feed means for feeding the recording medium to said recording means in a first mode;
- second sheet feed means for feeding the recording medium to said recording means in a second mode;
- timer means for which initiates a timer operation in response to the selection of said second sheet feed means for counting a predetermined period of time;
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- control means for switching from said second sheet feed means to said first sheet feed means in response to said timer means when the recording medium is not supplied from said second sheet feed means within the predetermined period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.