Copy production machines
CA 1110691 A · Owner: International Business Machines Corporation · Inventors: Travis, Terence; Andrews, Donald R.; Kuseski, Roger E.
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A copy production machine has a print mode for making copies under automatic control interruptible by a copy mode of making copies. In the print mode images to be copied are automatically supplied to a copy production portion. In the copy mode a variety of image supplying techniques may be employed. Copy output means separate copies made from the two modes. In the print mode images are preferably precollated while in the copy mode produced copies are collated. In a print mode plural image sources may be employed, such sources being activated in seriatim.
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- Granted October 13, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 13, 1998.
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