Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Tatsuro Asano

Tomoyuki Atsumi

Hiroyasu Ito

Hiroaki Sugimoto

Kentaro Nagatani

An Internet facsimile machine includes an e-mail generating unit and an e-mail send unit. For sending a multi-page document, the e-mail generating unit generates separate e-mails and attaches image data of a specific page of the document to one of the e-mails and image data of remaining pages to another of the e-mails. The e-mail send unit sends each e-mail. With this arrangement, regardless of the size of image data of the entire document, it is ensured that at least the specific page showing contact information of the sender is successfully sent to the recipient.

Internet facsimile and image transmission method

An image forming apparatus with increased convenience of setting an operation panel includes a touch panel LCD, an LCD controller, a video RAM, a control RAM, a panel CPU performing an operation for realizing the image forming apparatus based on data input from outside, a nonvolatile RAM a backup power supply, a flash ROM, a communication unit, a printer CPU performing communications for realizing image formation processing with the panel CPU through the communication unit, an input/output unit, a control RAM, an image RAM, a flash ROM, and an external I/F controller.

Image forming apparatus, method, and program product for controlling operations of image forming apparatus through various types of operation panels

To reduce power consumption, an MFP includes first to third HDDs of different storage capacities to store data, a writing portion to write received data to one of the first to third HDDs, a mode switching portion to change operating modes including the normal, stand-by, and sleep operating modes, each mode being driven by a different load, and a controller to control driving of the first to third HDDs. The controller includes a selecting portion to select one HDD from the first to third HDDs, which is predetermined in correspondence to the switched operating mode, and a drive controlling portion to drive the selected HDD, while suspending any HDD in operation other than the driven HDD.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Tatsuro Asano