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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 81 ; 399-9 ; 399 43 ; 399 82 ;
Abstract
In a copying machine according to the invention, a plurality of jobs are read and registered, and printing and reading of thus registered jobs can be independently performed. In the copying machine, if printing is stopped during printing a job registered under number 4, for example and it is highly probable that the estimated ending time for printing of jobs under job numbers 4 and 5 will be changed, the estimated ending times for these jobs are displayed in dots unlike the normal display. As a result, the user can be informed that an estimated time for the end of printing for a certain job becomes inaccurate.