Patent ID: 6961145

Claim:
A method for copying documents with an image reproducing apparatus, said method comprising: providing an image reproducing apparatus, said image reproducing apparatus including memory, a processor, a user interface and a reproducing surface, said reproducing surface possessing a first dimension; reproducing a document, said document possessing a second dimension, said second dimension being greater than said first dimension, said reproducing occurring in portions of less than the whole document, said image reproducing apparatus holding an image of each said document portion in memory; and manipulating said document portions in memory so that said document portions align to form a continuous image and so as to eliminate any duplicative overlapping document portion, wherein a user of said image reproducing apparatus affixes a mark on said document such that said mark will be contained within the image of each said document portion stored in memory, wherein image processing software overlays said mark from an image of one portion of said document with the same mark contained in an image of an adjoining portion of said document to form said continuous image in memory, and wherein said mark is made in a manner recognizable by said image processing software, said image processing software deleting said mark from said continuous image in memory by replacing said mark with adjacent image content prior to printing said continuous image.