Printing apparatus having manual sheet feeding and document read

Details Printing apparatus having manual sheet feeding and document read Printing apparatus having manual sheet feeding and document read

1993-04-29

1994-06-14

Grimley, A. T.

Photocopying

Contact printing

Light boxes

271301, 355202, 358498, G03G 2100

Patent

active

053214854

ABSTRACT:
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit for carrying out a printing mode in which an image formed on a photosensitive unit through an electrophotographic process is transferred to a copy sheet, a reading unit for carrying out a document reading mode in which a document is optically scanned by the reading unit to read image information from the document, a sheet feeding unit for supplying a copy sheet to the printing unit, a sheet transport path usable both for sending a copy sheet present at the reading unit to the printing unit and for sending a document present at the reading unit to a document ejecting portion, a sheet sensor for detecting whether or not a sheet is present at the reading unit, and a control unit connected to the sheet sensor for setting the document reading mode when a sheet at the reading unit is detected, so as to enable the reading unit to read image information from the sheet.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4657376 (1987-04-01), Ide
patent: 5038228 (1991-08-01), Takada
patent: 5095370 (1992-03-01), Takada et al.

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