Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1993-03-09
1994-02-22
Grimley, A. T.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
271 9, 355210, 355309, 358300, G03G 1504
Patent
active
052892360
ABSTRACT:
Image forming apparatus having an image forming unit for forming an image based on image information on a paper, a magnifying/reducing unit for magnifying/reducing the image to be formed by the image forming unit, multiple paper supplying cassettes for storing papers in different size and supplying the paper to the image forming units, a setting unit for setting times of image forming operation, a selector for selecting one of the multiple paper supplying cassettes and a controller which, in a case when papers of a first size, stored in a first paper supplying cassette, are exhausted before a completion of the times of the image forming operation set by the setting unit, for controlling the selecting unit to select a second paper supplying cassette which stores papers of a second size, and for controlling the magnifying/reducing unit to magnify/reduce the image in accordance with a proportion of the first size and the second size, and for controlling the image forming unit to form an image, magnified/reduced by the magnifying/reducing unit, on the paper of the second size.
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Brase Sandra L.
Grimley A. T.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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