Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1989-04-11
1990-07-03
Moses, R. L.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
355210, 346 76PH, G03G 1500
Patent
active
049395416
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus allowing a main assembly thereof to be interchangeably loaded with a first unit and a second unit. The first unit cooperates with a mechanism disposed in the main assembly to copy an image of a given document by the electrophotographic copying process. The second unit cooperates with a mechanism disposed in the main assembly to reproduce an image on a paper by the thermal transfer printing process. When image data from a facsimile or a word processor are transmitted to a thermal head in the second unit, an image can be reproduced on the paper based on the image data.
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Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
Moses R. L.
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