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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1984
Fumito Ide, Zama, JP;
Toshiyuki Sogo, Ebina, JP;
Kouzou Matsuyama, Yokohama, JP;
Shinichi Hashimoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a document unit having a document table on which a document is placed and is reciprocated, a photoconductive drum, an exposure unit for exposing the photoconductive drum in order to form a latent image of a document placed on the document table on the photoconductive drum, a developing device for developing the latent image formed on the photoconductive drum into a toner image, a fusing unit for fixing the toner image to a paper sheet and a paper measuring device for measuring the size of the first copying paper sheet sequentially and continuously fed from a paper feeding unit, so that for the following paper sheets, a moving distance of the document unit is determined in correspondence with the measured paper size.