Image recording apparatus with improved system for feeding and exhausting recording sheets
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeiichi Kawasaki, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Yuji Itoh
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus has a feed system for feeding a recording sheet from a feed magazine to a drum, a drum system for winding the recording sheet therearound and rotating to align the recording position with a predetermined position on the circumferential surface of the drum, a scanning system for main-scanning the recording sheet at the recording position of the sheet with an optically modulated beam, and a storage system for storing the recording sheet on which an image has been formed. The drum is rotated in opposite directions during feed and storage of the sheet.
Claims10
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a feed system for picking up a recording sheet from a predetermined position and feeding the picked-up recording sheet;
- a drum system, including a drum, for receiving the recording sheet fed by said feed system, for winding the recording sheet around said drum, and for rotating said drum to record an image on the sheet at a recording position, thereby performing subscanning;
- a scanning system for main-scanning the recording sheet at the recording position with the optically modulated light beam;
- a first storage system for storing the recording sheet on which an image has been recorded and which is discharged in a first direction from said drum;
- a second storage system for storing the recording sheet on which an image has been recorded and which is discharged in a second direction different from the first direction from said drum;
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- a control system for rotating said drum in opposite directions during feed of a recording sheet thereto by said feed system and storage of the recording sheet in a selected one of said first and second storage systems.
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- a feed system for picking up a recording sheet from a predetermined position and feeding the picked-up recording sheet;
- a drum system, including a drum, for receiving the recording sheet fed by said feed system, for winding the recording sheet around said drum, and for rotating said drum to record an image on the sheet at a recording position thereby performing subscanning;
- a scanning system for main-scanning the recording sheet at the recording position with an optically modulated light beam;
- a first storage system for storing the recording sheet on which an image has been recorded and which is discharged in a first direction from said drum;
- a second storage system for storing the recording sheet on which an image has been recorded and which is discharged in a second direction different from said first direction from said drum;
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- a control system for controlling storage of the recording sheet in a selected one said first and second storage systems.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.