Patent ID: 6574013
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A facsimile machine having a stacker, printing image data received from another facsimile machine on pages of paper and delivering the printed pages to the stacker, comprising:a first memory storing a limit value; a second memory adapted to store the image data received from said another facsimile machine; a paper sensor sensing absence of said printed pages in said stacker; a control unit coupled to said first memory, said second memory, and said paper sensor, counting the printed pages which are delivered to said stacker, thereby maintaining a page count of the number of said printed pages in said stacker, storing the image data received from said another facsimile machine in said second memory when said page count reaches said limit value, and printing the image data stored in said second memory when said paper sensor senses that said stacker is empty.