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US 5,019,916 AGranted
Digital copier with a facsimile function
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Ogura
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Abstract
A digital copier or like image forming apparatus is capable of selectively operating both as a copier or as a facsimile terminal and which can accommodate multi-sized papers of different sizes at one time. Image data transmitted by facsimile is printed out on a paper of any desired size at a receive station and is stored temporarily if the unit is being operated as a facsimile machine at the time of reception.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of paper feed sections in each of which a paper cassette may be mounted;
- paper size sensing means for sensing sizes of papers which are loaded in said paper cassettes which are mounted in said paper feed sections;
- paper feed section selecting means for specifying one of said paper feed sections;
- setting means for setting a size of an image to be formed on a given size of paper loaded in one of the paper cassette which is mounted in any of said paper feed sections which is selected by said paper feed section selecting means;
- optical means for receiving an image to be formed from an optical system;
- digital reception means for receiving from an image producing means an image to be formed;
- memory means for storing said image received from said digital reception means during a time period when said optical means is receiving an image;
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- means for producing an image from said optical means, said digital reception means and said memory means on said paper which has been selected.
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