Color image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoji Matsuda, Yuji Rikima
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Abstract
The color image forming apparatus forms color images on a recording medium using the reading unit for continuously reading color images from a plurality of documents to output color image data corresponding to the color images and a plurality of image forming units which are provided to form images for a plurality of color signals constituting the color image data on the basis of the color image data read by the reading unit. In the color image forming apparatus, the reading unit is controlled to start reading of a next document of the document corresponding to the images under image forming when the predetermined image forming unit finishes image forming among the plurality of image forming units before the color image forming is finished.
Claims17
A color image forming apparatus comprising:
- reading means for continuously reading color images from a plurality of documents to output color image data corresponding to the color images;
- color image forming means for forming color images on a recording medium using a plurality of image forming units which are provided to form images for a plurality of color signals constituting the color image data on the basis of the color image data read by the reading means;
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- control means for controlling the reading means to start reading of a next document of the document corresponding to images under image forming when a predetermined image forming unit finishes image forming among the plurality of image forming units before the color image forming is finished.
A color image forming apparatus comprising:
- reading means for continuously reading color images from a plurality of documents to output color image data corresponding to the color images,
- color image forming means for forming color images on a recording medium using a plurality of image forming units which are provided to form images for a plurality of color signals constituting the color image data on the basis of the color image data read by the reading means;
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- control means for controlling the reading means to start reading of a next document of the document corresponding to images under image forming at a predetermined timing given beforehand before the color image forming is finished.
A method for forming color images using a plurality of image forming units corresponding to a plurality of color signals constituting color image data, comprising the steps of:
- continuously reading color images from a plurality of documents to output color image data corresponding to the color images;
- forming color images for a plurality of color signals constituting the color image data using the plurality of image forming units on the basis of the color image data read in the reading step and transferring the images onto a recording medium;
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- starting reading of a next document of the document corresponding to images under image forming when a predetermined image forming unit finishes image forming among the plurality of image forming units before the color image forming is finished.
A method for forming color images using a plurality of image forming units corresponding to a plurality of color signals constituting color image data, comprising the steps of:
- continuously reading color images from a plurality of documents to output color image data corresponding to the color images,
- forming color images for a plurality of color signals constituting the color image data using the plurality of image forming units on the basis of the color image data read in the reading step and transferring the images onto a recording medium;
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- starting reading of a next document of the document corresponding to images under image forming at a predetermined timing given beforehand before the color image forming is finished.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.