JPH0817431B2 - Fax machine - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine that records and outputs image data to be transmitted, which is stored in a memory.

[Prior art]

2. Description of the Related Art As an image recording apparatus, for example, recent facsimile machines, an increasing number of apparatuses have an image memory and have a function of storing read image data in the memory. In the conventional apparatus having this function, when the user wants to see the contents of the image memory, that is, the contents of the stored document, for confirmation or the like, he or she cannot glance at one page of the recording paper. I had to record all the minute images.

For this reason, if the stored contents are data for dozens of pages of recording paper, it takes a long time just to "see", and the amount of unnecessary recording paper used for reference also increases. There was such a drawback.

[Object] The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional example, and provides a facsimile apparatus capable of confirming the contents of image data to be transmitted stored in a memory by a simple process in a short time. With the goal.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the details of the present invention will be described based on the embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 and the following illustrate one embodiment of the present invention.
In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a recording control unit, which receives image data, adds a header 2 to each page, and stores it in the image memory 3.

When the image data in the image memory 3 is recorded, the image data is taken out from the image memory 3, sent to the recording head 4, and every time one line is recorded on the recording paper 5, the step motor 6 is used to change the recording paper. The operation of sequentially sending is performed while controlling the recording control unit 1.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG.

First, in step S1, the facsimile apparatus is started, and in step S2, it is determined whether or not the operation of calling the record data of the memory 3 for reference should be started.

If the reference of the recorded data is started, the process proceeds to step S3, and if not started, the process of the next step is suspended until the reference start is performed.

In step S3, when the image data is received, the page header added for each page is detected, each page is cueed, the process proceeds to step S4, the data for one line is read, and the recording for one line is performed in step S5. I do.

Then, in step S6, the paper is fed by the stepping motor for one line, and in step S7 the predetermined length Lcm is reached.
The above-described operation is repeated until recording of only minutes is performed.

After recording for Lcm, the data on the next page is read out, Lcm is recorded, and the same operation is repeated over all the pages in step S8 to record all the pages as shown in FIG. After that, the process returns to step S2 and waits for the next operation.

Since the present embodiment is configured as described above, a configuration is adopted in which the leading end portion of each page of image data is recorded, so that the time and paper spent for recording for reference of image data is greatly saved. it can.

Although the recording length is Lcm in the above-described embodiment, this length may be fixed and may be arbitrarily set by the user.

According to the present invention, management information for reading a part of image data to be transmitted stored in the memory means is stored, and the transmission information stored in the memory means is stored based on the stored management information. Since a part of the image data to be transmitted is read and recorded, the image data to be transmitted in the memory means can be partially recorded by a simple process, and the outline of the image content can be confirmed in a short time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 illustrates an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram, FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining the operation, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an output recording example. 1 ... Recording control unit, 3 ... Image memory 4 ... Recording head

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus for transmitting read image data, comprising: memory means for storing the read image data to be transmitted; and a predetermined part of the image data to be transmitted stored in said memory means. A unit for storing management information for reading, a reading unit for reading out a predetermined portion of the image data to be transmitted stored in the memory unit based on the stored management information, and a unit for reading out by the reading unit. A facsimile apparatus, comprising: a recording unit that records image data to be transmitted on a recording sheet.