Electrophotography – Control of electrophotography process – Responsive to copy media characteristic
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-16
2007-10-16
Gray, David M. (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Control of electrophotography process
Responsive to copy media characteristic
C399S082000, C399S084000, C399S389000, C399S390000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10968045
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus is capable of forming an image on any of an image-erasable recording medium having recording-medium identification information and a recording medium and is capable performing image formation according to a first mode for forming an erasable image and according to a second mode for forming an inerasable image arbitrarily. The apparatus includes an image-forming unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit, feeds the image-erasable recording medium to the image-forming unit and allows the same to carry out image formation according to the first image-forming mode, when the first image-forming mode is selected, the detecting unit detects a recording medium having the recording medium-identification information, and the mode-control unit determines that image formation on an image-erasable recording medium can be carried out and does not prohibit image formation according to the first image-forming mode.
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Gray David M.
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
Roth Laura K
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