Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has a device for performing a scanning operation using a laser beam by a polygon mirror at a predetermined timing; a writing device for sequentially forming a plurality of images by repeatedly performing an optical writing operation a plurality of times on a photosensitive body; a transfer device for sequentially overlapping and transferring the plurality of images onto a transferred member; and a device for starting the optical writing operation each time by the writing device from the same polygon mirror face. The photosensitive body is constructed by a photosensitive body belt and the optical writing operation is started from the same polygon mirror face approximately every integral multiple of one rotation of a driving roller for the photosensitive body.
Abstract:
There is provided by the present invention an image forming apparatus including a one-chip microcomputer having white reference data for a first sheet of copy fetched with shading gate arrays in a stable region for a halogen lamp, using said white reference data when forming an image for a first sheet of copy, and also having shading-corrected white data fetched for a second or subsequent sheet of copy each time an image is formed.
Abstract:
A miniature and reliable device capable of reading a book document while turning the pages thereof. A book document is laid on a document table in a spread position face up. The document table is pressed upward while a scanning unit is restricted in movement in the up-and-down direction. The scanning unit, therefore, receives the surface of the book document pressed upward.
Abstract:
An image reader for reading a book document laid on a document table in a spread position by optically scanning the surface of the document. The edge of the document on the side where scanning for reading the document starts, the position of an image on the document, the size of the document, the edge of the document on the side where the leaf of the document begins to be turned over and so forth are detected on the basis of data derived from the optical scanning of the surface of the document.