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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2000
Yoji Matsuda, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yuji Rikima, Tokyo, JP;
Yoji Matsuda, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yuji Rikima, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The color image forming apparatus forms color images on a recording medium using the reading unit for continuously reading color images from a plurality of documents to output color image data corresponding to the color images and a plurality of image forming units which are provided to form images for a plurality of color signals constituting the color image data on the basis of the color image data read by the reading unit. In the color image forming apparatus, the reading unit is controlled to start reading of a next document of the document corresponding to the images under image forming when the predetermined image forming unit finishes image forming among the plurality of image forming units before the color image forming is finished.