Patent ID: 6305281
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: B41L

Abstract:
A stencil printer comprising:an ink drum for wrapping a master around an outer periphery thereof;master making means for making the master;a paper discharging section including a paper discharge tray having a pair of side fences spaced from each other in a widthwise direction of a paper and movable in said widthwise direction and an end fence selectively movable forward or backward in a direction of paper discharge;side fence moving means for moving said pair of side fences in the widthwise direction;end fence moving means for moving said end fence in the direction of paper discharge;document size sensing means for sensing a size of a document;paper size sensing means for sensing a size of the paper; andcontrol means for controlling said master making means, said side fence moving means and said end fence moving means;said control means determining, based on information output from said document size sensing means and said paper size sensing means, an orientation of the document, an orientation of the paper and a size of said paper and controlling, if said document and said paper are different in orientation, said master making means on the basis of the orientation of said paper to thereby orient a document image to be formed in the master in accordance with the orientation of said paper, and controlling said side fence moving means and said end fence moving means for locating each of said pair of side fences and said end fence at a particular position matching with the size of said paper.