Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tatsuya Murai

Masumi Ikesue

Mitsutoyo Kikuno

Masayuki Shinada

A sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus having a sheet feed unit which incorporates a pair of feed rollers for feeding paper sheets one by one out of at least one sheet cassette toward an image transfer station by nipping them. The sheet feed unit is automatically moved by a guide to a position where the feed rollers align with the intermediate between opposite widthwise edges of the paper sheets.

Sheet feeder for an image forming apparatus

A document recycling copier having, in a system configuration, a copier body, a recycling document handler which may be loaded with a stack of documents of different sizes, and a finisher for automatically arranging and binding a series of copied paper sheets. The copier is capable of copying the individual documents of different sizes on paper sheets the sizes of which are individually associated with the documents, or copying all of the documents of different sizes on paper sheets of the same size, as desired.

Document recycling copier for copying documents of varying sizes

A copier having an automatic document feeder and selectively operable in a sheet-through mode and a sheet-stationary mode. The sheet-through mode is automatically selected when only one copy is desired for each of documents while the sheet-stationary mode is automatically selected when two or more copies are desired for each of documents.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tatsuya Murai