Image forming system with original feeding apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasataka Naito, Yuji Takahashi, Masakazu Hiroi, Yoshinori Isobe, Akimaro Yoshida, Hitoshi Fujimoto, Tomohito Nakagawa
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Abstract
The present invention provides an image forming system having an original-stationary scanning mode and an original-through scanning mode characterized by control means for more shortening a sheet supply distance in the original-through scanning more than that in the original-stationary scanning mode.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus including a sheet original feeding apparatus having a sheet supply apparatus and a platen, and operable in an original-stationary scanning mode in which a sheet original is scanned while stationary on the platen and an original-through scanning mode in which a sheet original is scanned while moving across the platen, comprising:
- first feeding means for feeding the sheet original across the platen;
- and
- second feeding means for introducing the sheet original to the platen,
- wherein, in the original-stationary scanning mode, plural sheet originals are set on said platen simultaneously, plural sheet originals set on the platen are fed by said first feeding means when one of the sheet originals set on the platen is scanned to feed out the first sheet original from the platen and a next sheet original is fed to the platen by said second feeding means;
- and wherein a supply interval from the preceding copy sheet to the next copy sheet is set to be shorter for the original-through scanning mode than during the original-stationary scanning mode.
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