Image forming apparatus

Details Image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus

1991-03-28

1993-08-17

Picard, Leo P.

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Contact printing

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355208, G03G 2100

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052373800

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for successively forming an image on each of image forming media respectively corresponding to a first image of a first document and a second image of a second document. The image forming unit of the apparatus idles between the end of the first image forming operation for the first document and the commencement of the second image forming operation for the second document. The apparatus further includes a platen glass for supporting each of the documents, an automatic document feeder for successively setting the first document and the second document onto the platen glass, a detector for detecting an operating condition which the automatic document feeder actuates to set the documents onto the platen glass, and a controller for prohibiting the idling of the operation of the image forming unit when the detector detects the operating condition.

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patent: 4497568 (1985-02-01), Komiya et al.
patent: 4977428 (1990-12-01), Sakakura et al.
patent: 5028965 (1991-07-01), Kinoshito et al.

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