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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hachioji, JP;
Kouichi Takagi, Hachioji, JP;
Yuuichi Goto, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshiyuki Ichihara, Hachioji, JP;
Takashi Murahashi, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming machine such as a copying machine and a printer for forming an image on a recording medium with plural laser beams. The image forming machine includes an image reader for reading an original image and for simultaneously generating image signals corresponding to the original image; plural laser beam generators for writing the image on the recording medium according to the image signals; an index signal generating circuit for generating plural index signals each of which initiates a respective one of the plural laser beam generators to write the image; and a control circuit for controlling a reading operation of the image reader. In the image forming machine, the control circuit initiates the reading operation of the image reader according to one of the plural index signals.