Facsimile system operable in toner save mode, depending upon type of original image data
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsWataru Tomida, Kazunobu Asai
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Abstract
A recording apparatus wherein an original image is recorded in a matrix of dots by applications of a toner tolocal spots on a recording medium, and which includes a non-toner-save controller for recording the original image in a non-toner-save mode, a toner-save controller for recording a toner-save image in a toner-save mode such that the toner-save image generated on the basis of the original immage has a lower density of image dots than the original image, and a mode selector for activating one of the non-toner-save controller and the toner-save controller to select the corresponding non-toner-save or toner-save recording mode, on the basis of the type of the original image data.
Claims23
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording portion for effecting a recording operation on a recording medium in a matrix of dots by selective application of a toner to local spots on said medium, according to original image data representative of an original image to be reproduced, said local spots corresponding to picture elements of said dot matrix;
- a non-toner-save control portion for controlling said recording portion according to said original image data to form said original image in a non-toner-save recording mode;
- a toner-save control portion for controlling said recording portion according to a toner-save image data to form a toner-save image in a toner-save recording mode, said toner-save image having a lower density of image dots than said original image and being recognizable as an image similar to the original image, said toner-save control portion generating said toner-save image data on the basis of said original image data;
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- mode selector means for activating one of said non-toner-save control portion and said toner-save control portion to select a corresponding one of said non-toner-save and toner-save recording modes, on the basis of a type of said original image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.