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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2005
Kazuyoshi Kobayashi, Miyagi, JP;
Kazuyoshi Kobayashi, Miyagi, JP;
Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd., Shibata-gun, JP;
Abstract
A stencil printer of the present invention includes a print drum and a pressing member selectively movable into or out of contact with the print drum. A duplex master, formed with a first and a second image in the lengthwise direction thereof, or a simplex master formed with a third image is wrapped around the print drum in a duplex mode or a simplex mode, respectively. The stencil printer is capable of selectively performing a duplex print mode operation, which consists of a front printing step and a rear pining step following the front printing step, or a simplex print mode operation. When the operator of the printer selects the duplex print mode to cause the duplex master to be wrapped around the print drum and then replaces the duplex print mode with the simplex print mode, the stencil printer produces an alarm and inhibits the simplex pint mode operation from being started.