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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Henry Hubbard, Boulder, CO (US);
Ralph Joseph Leclere, Longmont, CO (US);
Thomas Travis Underhill, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 14 ;
Abstract
A multi-mode document reproduction machine (copier) includes automatic reselection, activated when a time-out timer times out, which reselects machine parameters to a dominant copy mode. A dominant mode is that machine mode used in the most number of copy jobs, irrespective of the number of copies made in any of the modes. An intermediate machine state inhibits the time-out timer. Copies in an interim storage unit and a copy jam are two examples that generate an intermediate machine state. Removal of copies or the jam allows the timer to time out.