Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sadao Okada

Tsutomu Shouji

Osamu Nakamoto

Masato Aoyagi

Hiromichi Okazaki

Ikuo Ohtomo

There are provided a copying machine executing the processing for reading image data from a document and the processing for printing the image data, a computer for editing image data read by the copying machine, and a memory board having a memory for storing therein image data to which an image data bus of the copying machine and an internal bus of the computer are connected respectively, and the copying machine executes the processing for reading image data from a document and writing the image data in a memory, the computer executes the processing for reading the image data from a memory, editing the image data, and writing the edited image data again in the memory, the copying machine executes the processing the reading the edited image data from the memory and printing the image data, and the memory board controls the operations for reading and writing the image data by the copying machine.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Sadao Okada