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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355311 ; 355206 ; 355209 ; 346160 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects the size of a recording medium and a designating unit that designates the size of a recording medium onto which an image is to be recorded. The comparing unit compares the detected size with the designated size to determine which size is larger and a control unit controls the apparatus to perform operations such that an operation when the detected size is larger than the designated size is different from that when the detected size is smaller than the designated size.