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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1997
Hideyuki Kagawa, Sendai, JP;
Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd., Miyagi-ken, JP;
Abstract
In a stencil printer, when a print drum reaches a stand-by position where a new master produced by a master making operation should have its leading edge clamped on the drum, a master discharging operation under way for discharging a used master is interrupted. After the leading edge of the new master has been clamped on the print drum, the master discharging operation is resumed while a master feeding operation for wrapping the new master around the print drum is under way. A printing operation for printing a document image on a sheet is effected simultaneously with the resumption of the master discharging operation. Such a procedure is implemented as a high speed 1 control mode and executed by a main control unit.