Patent ID: 7161706

Claim:
A method of producing a copy of an original scaled to fit a selected copy medium comprising the steps of: (a) performing a first scan of said original at a full resolution to convert said original to a plurality of scan data representing a plurality of pixels of said original; (b) determining at least one of a magnification and a reduction of said original to scale a copy of said original to fit at least one of a length and a width of said copy medium using only said plurality of scan data from said first scan; (c) printing said copy from said scan data at one of said determined magnification and reduction using said plurality of scan data stored in a memory from said first scan; and (d) where said step of determining at least one of a magnification and a reduction of said original is performed over a time interval that begins before data from said first scan is written into said memory, and is performed concurrently with processing of said scan data for image reproduction characteristics other than scaling over at least a portion of said time interval.