Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Hobo

Masamichi Kawakami

Hiroyuki Hayasaki

Yasunori Tsuji

Yuji Houjiyou

Seiji Katou

Hideya Yamaguchi

Masaaki Hasegawa

Youichirou Arimatsu

A facsimile equipment of the present invention is a facsimile equipment which is constructed to comprise an interface which enables the facsimile equipment to communicate with a computer device, access to an opposite station on the basis of telephone number data of other stations sent from the computer device, and transmit data stored in the computer device to the opposite station through receiving data sent from the computer device and transmitting signals corresponded to the data; during communications, the facsimile equipment is controlled so as to answer to the computer device as if it had a reception from the opposite station, accumulate the data sent from the computer device following to the answer in the storage unit of the facsimile equipment, and transmit the data accumulated in the facsimile equipment to the opposite station on the basis of telephone number data of other stations indicated by the computer device, after that data accumulation is finished.

Facsimile equipment to provide communication between a computer and a

A facsimile apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus, such as a computer, which executes a communication protocol defined by a general-purpose communication application software program. The facsimile apparatus includes an own number memory which stores an own number, and determines whether or not an addressing number sent by the computer corresponds with the own number. When the own number and the addressing number do not correspond with each other, the facsimile apparatus transmits image data sent from the computer to another facsimile apparatus which is indicated by the addressing number. If the own number and the addressing number correspond with each other, the facsimile apparatus responds to the computer with dummy response information, and image data is sent from the computer to a printer to be printed out.

Facsimile interfaced to information processing apparatus

A printing apparatus and a facsimile equipment incorporating the same according to the present invention are constituted as such that, when printing an original of, for example, A3 size by a printer of A4 size, the original read in the subscanning direction at reading is printed in the main scanning direction at printing, and at the same time, the image data in the main scanning direction and subscanning direction are enlarged or reduced respectively for printing so as to bring the length/widthwise ratio of a hard copy thus obtained equal to those of the original, so that when the facsimile including a A4 size printer receives the original of A3 size, the hard copy without distortion can be obtained with the smaller printer as compared with the original.

Printing apparatus and facsimile equipment

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Hashima, Japan

Yoshihiro Hobo