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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1994
Mikio Shiga, Yokohama, JP;
Tamaki Hashimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a recording apparatus, a recording operation is controlled by being connected to a host computer. The apparatus includes a sheet supporting unit for supporting a plurality of sheets, a feeding unit for feeding a sheet supported by the sheet supporting unit, a manual insertion port for manually inserting a sheet into the main body of the apparatus, a conveying unit for conveying the sheet fed from the sheet supporting unit or the sheet inserted from the manual insertion port, a recording unit for performing a recording operation on the sheet fed by the conveying unit, a sheet detection unit for detecting the sheet inserted from the manual insertion port, and a control unit for causing the apparatus to execute a recording operation in a manual insertion mode based on the detection of the manually inserted sheet by the sheet detection unit, and for temporarily providing an off-line state with respect to the host computer after the recording operation has been completed.