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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1998
Yuji Kurosawa, Tokyo, JP;
Naoya Watanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an image recording apparatus, either one of a facsimile mode to function as a facsimile apparatus and a printer mode to function as a printer is indicated by a mode selection switch, and when a facsimile signal is received in the printer mode, the facsimile mode is automatically set. When a signal is received from an external equipment such as a computer in the facsimile mode, the printer mode is automatically set but the switching to the printer mode is inhibited if unprinted received data is stored in an image memory. When data is not supplied from the external equipment for a predetermined time period in the printer mode, the facsimile mode is set.