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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1985
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The copying rate of an electrophotographic copying machine of constant paper advance speed including a toner image fixing unit which is selectively preset to predetermined values in increment inverse relationship to the thickness of the copy sheets employed, so that copy sheets of greater thickness are fed to the fixing unit for lesser feed rate than the thinner standard sheets, whereby the copy sheets are adequately heated at the different thicknesses. Following the termination of a copy sequence of thicker sheets at reduced feed rate, the copy machine automatically reverts to its rate setting for standard thickness sheets. In copying with standard thickness sheets, the period of the first copying cycle is greater than that for subsequent sheets and the copying rate with the thicker sheets is the same as that for the first copy with standard thickness sheets. A microcomputer network with a rate selector switch programs the copying machine in the above manner.