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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1987
Hideo Ito, Toyokawa, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A copying machine capable of producing a copy with a correct filing margin regardless of whether the document is single-sided or double-sided and whether the images are copied on both the sides of a copying paper or one side of the copying paper. The copying machine comprises: a glass platen for supporting a document; an image forming device for forming on a copying paper an image of the document, including a magnification varying device and an image shift device for shifting a transfer position of the image of the document on a copying paper with respect to the direction of conveyance of the copying paper; a mode selecting device for selecting one of a filing margin adjusting mode in which a filing margin is formed by the image shift device, a variable magnification shift mode in which a filing margin is formed by the image shift device and by the magnification varying device with reduced magnification, and a nonshift mode in which no filing margin is formed; and a control device for controlling the image forming device in accordance with a type of a document, a type of a copying paper, and the mode selected by the mode selecting device.