JPS57150267A - Copy instruction input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten a copying time, to lighten the burden of an operator, and to easily obtain various copies in large quantities, by preparing a copy instruction original against a copying original, reading its copy instruction in the same way as reading the copying original, and inputting its copy instruction in a memory. CONSTITUTION:An automatic feed mechanism 1 of an original, a reader 2 of the original, for digitally reading the original, a CPU 3, a memory for storing a read information, a laser beam printer 5, etc. are provided on a digital copying machine. Also, a copy insturction form which is capable of instructing the sequence of the original, the number of copies, size of a copying form, etc. is prepared, and when a lot of various originals are copied, necessary information is entered into each column of its instruction form. In this state, before information of the original is read, information of each column of the instruction form is read by the device 2 and is stored in a read memory 4, its information is decoded by the CPU 3, and after that, the feed mechanism 1, the reader 1, and the printer 5 are controlled, and copying of a lot of various originals are executed in accordance with the matters instructed by each column of the instruction form.