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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1990
Yutaka Shigemura, Takarazuka, JP;
Takashi Kondo, Sakai, JP;
Hideo Umezawa, Amagasaki, JP;
Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Nara, JP;
Satoshi Yano, Takatsuki, JP;
Yukihiro Ito, Osaka, JP;
Junichi Oura, Hirakata, JP;
Masanobu Takahashi, Suita, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus can be achieved as, for example, a copying machine. The copying machine according to the present invention includes a handy scanner provided detachably from the main body of the copy machine and an additional data recording device for recording data read by the handy scanner as additonal data in addition to a mechanism for reading an image of a document disposed on an original glass plate to copy the same onto recording paper. The handy scanner can read arbitrary image data such as a figure, a designed character or a logotype. The image data read by the handy scanner is applied to the additional data recording device. If the paper on which the document image has been copied is provided to the additional data recording device, the additional data recording device records the additonal data at the rear of the paper on which the document image has been copied. The additional data recording device is operated after the document image is copied, the paper being conveyed at a speed different from that at the time of copying the document image.