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Image forming apparatus having writing space mode

a technology of image forming and writing mode, which is applied in the direction of electrophotographic process apparatus, digital computers, instruments, etc., can solve the problem of no electrophotographic copying apparatus having a copying mod

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-02-26
MATSUDA AIKO +1
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"The present invention provides an image forming apparatus with a copying mode that allows users to create comments on a half of a paper sheet and a consolidation mode where multiple documents are printed on a single paper sheet with a separating line between them. Additionally, the apparatus can determine if there are blank areas on the paper sheet and avoid adding a separating line in those areas. These features improve the functionality and user experience of the image forming apparatus."

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However, there is conventionally no electrophotographic copying apparatus having a copying mode of printing one document image on a half of a single paper sheet, or of printing a plurality of documents on a half of a single paper sheet such that there is formed, on the other half of the paper sheet, a space in which the user can write down his or her comments.

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[1] Description of the Arrangement of Digital Electrophotographic Copying Apparatus

[0033]FIG. 1 shows the arrangement of a digital electrophotographic copying apparatus. The digital electrophotographic copying apparatus comprises a scanner unit 10, a control unit 20, a hard disk drive (HDD) 30, an image forming unit 40 and a user operation unit 50. The scanner unit 10 has a document feeding device (DF) 11, a scanner 12, a document reading CCD 13 and the like. The control unit 20 has a CPU, a ROM, a RAM and the like.

[0034]The image forming unit 40 has a laser scan unit (LSU) 41, an electrostatic copying mechanism including a photoreceptor drum and the like. The user operation unit 50 has a key input unit 51 including a numeric keypad and a variety of keys, a liquid crystal display unit 52, an LED display unit 53 and the like.

[0035]A document sent onto a contact glass (not shown) by the document feeding device (DF) 11, is optically scanned by the scanner 12, and its document image is ...

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Abstract

An image forming apparatus in which there can be set a writing space mode in which document images in a preset number are printed on a half of a single paper sheet, thus forming a writing space on the other half of the paper sheet. This image forming apparatus is arranged to print document images in a preset number on a half of a single paper sheet when the writing space mode has been set as a copying mode.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]There is known an electrophotographic copying apparatus having a function of printing two or more document images on a single paper sheet. Such a function is generally called a consolidation function. However, there is conventionally no electrophotographic copying apparatus having a copying mode of printing one document image on a half of a single paper sheet, or of printing a plurality of documents on a half of a single paper sheet such that there is formed, on the other half of the paper sheet, a space in which the user can write down his or her comments.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION[0005]It is an object of the present invention to provide an image forming apparatus having a copying mode in which there is formed, on a half of a paper sheet, a space in which the user can write down his or her comments.[0006]It is another obj...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G03G15/00G06F15/00
CPCG03G15/502G03G15/5016
Inventor MATSUDA, AIKOKIDA, YASUHIKO
Owner MATSUDA AIKO