Electrophotography – Machine operation – Having power supply
Patent
1997-07-08
1999-03-16
Brase, Sandra
Electrophotography
Machine operation
Having power supply
399 43, G03G 1500
Patent
active
058841229
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus forming has a resume device to resume a situation when the power supply was turned off. Further, a timer is provided to count a period after the power supply was turned off. A controller inhibits operation of the resume device when the timer counts up a predetermined period. Further, an interrupting device is provided, and when the image forming apparatus is in a predetermined state such as paper empty, the image forming apparatus is operated according to the image forming information entered by the interrupting device. In a different way, an image forming apparatus has a switching device to turn off manually the power supply. After the power supply was turned off with the auto-power-off function, if the power supply is turned on manually, data on image forming saved in a memory are cleared. Thus, a new user can start a copy job readily, while the secrecy of image data of a previous user can be maintained.
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Kawabuchi Yoichi
Kawasaki Eiichiro
Yoshida Eiichi
Brase Sandra
Minolta Co. , Ltd.
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