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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1997
Norio Imada, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
The image forming apparatus includes a reading device or reading a document image and generating image signals, a memory for storing image signals generated by the reading device and an image forming device for forming an image on an image carrier according to the image signals stored in the memory. The image forming apparatus has a control unit for controlling the apparatus to include the state wherein the reading operation and the image forming operation are executed simultaneously in a series of operations ranging from the reading operation by the reading device of the image forming apparatus to the image forming operation by the image forming device and further, has a breaking key for breaking one of the reading operation and the image forming operation while both of these operations are being executed simultaneously.