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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:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1997
Youichi Kimura, Nabari, JP;
Yasuhiro Nakai, Soraku-gun, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A digital copying machine of this invention provides a facsimile apparatus, a memory for storing data received by the facsimile apparatus having a capacity for storing a plurality of items of data, and a printer apparatus for selectively printing the data corresponding to only a cover page, contained in all the data items stored in the memory. The printer apparatus includes setting means for automatically setting a scale factor and performing synthetic printing when the data corresponding to only a cover page is output. The setting means includes calculating means for deriving an output scale factor based on the number of stored data items, and the size of paper. And the printer apparatus includes printing means for printing the data corresponding to only a cover page on two or more sheets of paper if a reducing factor of said data is smaller than a predetermined value.
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