Digital copier with a facsimile function
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Ogura
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Abstract
A digital copier or like image forming apparatus having a facsimile function in addition to a copying function includes a memory which accommodates a plurality of pages of document data. The copier is controlled such that image data of those documents which were fed by a document feeder and transmitted by facsimile sequentially arrive at a receive station from the first page to the last page in this order.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus having a function of storing and reading out image data which are associated with a plurality of pages of documents, comprising:
- first store means for sequentially storing image data inputted;
- second store means for storing leading addresses which are assigned to the individual pages of the image data which are stored in said first store means;
- first reading means for reading the leading addresses out of said second store means and reading the image data out of said first store means one page at a time on the basis of the leading addresses;
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- commanding means for commanding an order in which the individual pages are stored in said first store means or in an opposite order said first reading means should read the leading addresses out of said second store means.
An image forming apparatus having a function of storing and reading out image data which are associated with a plurality of pages of documents, comprising:
- first store means for sequentially storing image data inputted;
- second store means for storing leading addresses which are assigned to the individual pages of the image data which are stored in said first store means;
- first reading means for reading the leading addresses out of said second store means and reading the image data out of said first store means one page at a time on the basis of the leading addresses;
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- commanding means for commanding an order in which said first reading means should read the leading addresses out of said second store means;
- document feeder means loaded with a plurality of documents for sequentially feeding the documents one by one to a predetermined reading position;
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- second reading means for reading image data of a document;
- wherein said commanding means causes said first reading means to, if the image data stored in said first store means are associated with the documents which are transported by said document feeder means and read by said second reading means, sequentially read the leading addresses out of said second store means from the leading address of the image data of the page which was read first and, if the image data stored in said first store means are associated with the documents which were read by said second reading means and not fed by said document feeder means, sequentially read the leading addresses out of said second store means from the leading address of the image data of the page which was read last.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.