KOMBINIERTE ELEKTROGRAFISCHE DRUCK-, KOPIER- UND TELEFAX-EINRICHTUNG MIT DUPLEX-EINHEIT

摘要

An electrographic apparatus (100) is capable of functioning as a copier, a printer, or as a facsimile machine, and is preferably also capable of duplex printing. A photoconductive member (140) is mounted in a disposable cassette at an angle in housing (112), an optical print head (154) can receive information from a local or remote source to form an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive member (140); device (180) can scan and digitize the image on an original document; when the digitized image is transmitted to the optical print head (140), a copy of the original document is produced on paper; when the digitized image is transmitted over the telephone lines to a remote receiver, the apparatus (100) functions as a facsimile machine. The electrographic apparatus (100) also includes a first paper path (122-2) for paper to be imprinted on one side by the photoconductive member (140), and a second paper path (122-4, 122-5,122-6, 122-7) which receives the sheet of paper from the first paper path (122-1), turns the paper over, and returns it to the first paper path (122-2) for imprinting on a second side. In a simpler embodiment, Fig. 1, the image of the original is projected directly onto the photoconductive member for the copying function. <IMAGE>