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Recording apparatus

US4967240A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 26, 1989
Grant dateOct 30, 1990
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Expiry dateApr 26, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/0094
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A recording apparatus comprising a copying system for projecting the image of an original document onto a photosensitive member to form an electrostatic latent image thereon, and a printing system for forming an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member in response to image information received from a data processing machine. This recording apparatus is operable in a printing mode and a copying mode. In the printing mode, recording paper carrying an image printed in accordance with the image information is either discharged outwardly of the recording apparatus or forwarded to an automatic document feeder to serve as an original document or documents. In the copying mode, the or each original document is copied a selected number of times as in any conventional copying machine.

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