Image forming apparatus

Details Image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus

1989-04-11

1990-07-03

Moses, R. L.

Photocopying

Contact printing

Light boxes

355210, 346 76PH, G03G 1500

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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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