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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Noboru Tamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 ; G06K 1/502 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 ; G06K 1/502 ;
Abstract
When a storage memory becomes full during processing of printing out of image data read from a page memory and transferred to both a storage memory and a printing portion at the same time for a first copy, a function of an image rotating portion is not effected for copies subsequent to the first copy, and, also, for pages of image data which are stored in the storage memory are printed out, and a page of image data processed at the time the storage memory became full is transferred from the page memory to the printing portion and is printed out.