摘要 |
Original documents to be copied can be loaded by hand one at a time into a semi-automatic document feeder (14), or can be loaded, as a stack into an automatic document feeder (16). The copier has a panel (26) for entry of selection data for each copy task. A microprocessor determines task completion priority, when the copier is given a subsequent task while executing a prior task, from at least the prior task data, following operation of a control panel key and operates either feeder before the other, depending on the determined task completion priority. On completion of the first determined task, the control panel key is de-selected, which renders the previously entered second task data operative and causes commencement or continuation of the second task without further operator intervention.
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