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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1980
Filed:
May. 05, 1977
Noboru Koumura, Narashino, JP;
Toshiyuki Komatsu, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsumi Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Takekawa, Tokyo, JP;
Motoharu Fujii, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic printing apparatus includes an image formation member for forming a master which may be repetitively subjected to the process of reproducing an original image, a rotatable drum capable of holding the image formation member thereon, an optical device for projecting therethrough the original image upon the image formation member on the rotatable drum, a heating member for heating the image formation member on the rotatable drum so as to form a chargeable image pattern corresponding to the image formed on the image formation member by the optical device, a charging device for forming an electrostatic image corresponding to the original image on the master formed by the optical device and the heating member, a developing device for developing the electrostatic image into a visible image, and a device for transferring the visible image from the master onto a recording medium.