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    Multifunction Peripherals for PCs: Technology, Troubleshooting and Repair
    Multifunction Peripherals for PCs: Technology, Troubleshooting and Repair
    Multifunction Peripherals for PCs: Technology, Troubleshooting and Repair
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    Multifunction Peripherals for PCs: Technology, Troubleshooting and Repair

    By Marvin Hobbs

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    Multifunction devices combine the essentials of a fax machine, printer, scanner, and copier into one peripheral for small and home offices. As the market for this equipment grows, the need for skilled repair and maintenance increases. Unfortunately the service documentation supplied by the manufacturers is completely inadequate making the repair jobs even harder and more expensive. Marvin Hobbs teaches you how multifunction peripherals work in theory and in practice with lots of hands-on examples and important troubleshooting and repair tips you don't want to miss.

    This book fills a gap in the literature, and will be a welcome addition to the library of any technician or do-it-yourselfer.

    • Written by a knowledgeable practitioner with inside industry information
    • Fully covers the troubleshooting and repair of multifunction peripherals
    • A must-have instructional and reference title for anyone who works with computer peripherals!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateFeb 18, 2000
    ISBN9780080512198
    Multifunction Peripherals for PCs: Technology, Troubleshooting and Repair
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    Marvin Hobbs

    Electronics engineer, now retired. Author of several books on electronic servicing for Sams and Prentice Hall.

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      Multifunction Peripherals for PCs - Marvin Hobbs

      Receiver/Transmitter

      Chapter 1

      The Evolution of the MFP from the Fax Machine

      PC AND FAX MACHINE LINKED

      In August 1983, Takaho Koshiishi of the Ricoh Company, Ltd., in Japan, filed for a patent covering a combination of a facsimile apparatus and a personal computer. The latter was connected to the facsimile apparatus through a parallel interface. The combination had four operation modes:

      1. A recording mode where the data from the computer was recorded by the printer in the fax apparatus

      2. An image input mode where data from a scanner in the fax apparatus was input to the computer

      3. A transmission or transfer mode where the data from the computer was transmitted to another fax apparatus

      4. A reception/transfer mode where the data from another fax apparatus was input to the computer

      Koshiishi stated that a fax apparatus is capable of reading, recording, and communicating image data with relatively high accuracy. Therefore, if the conventional fax apparatus is modified to be connectable with a personal computer to permit transfer of image data between the fax machine and the computer, it will process the data in various manners and store the same on the computer side, to return the data back to the fax apparatus for printing, and to transmit the data from one fax machine to another, as required. (See Figure 1.1.)

      Figure 1.1 Modified fax machine linked to personal computer. (from Koshiishi’s patent, filed in Japan, August 1983)

      Patent #4,652,933 was granted to Takao Koshiishi from a U.S. filing in 1984.

      EXTERNAL INTERFACES BETWEEN FAX AND PC

      Another inventor, Paul Lin, of Taipei, Taiwan, filed initially in 1987 for a U.S. patent titled Interface Device for the Intercommunication of a Computer and a Fax Machine, in which he made the following comment:

      U.S. Pat. #4,652,933 discloses a system comprising a computer and equipped facsimile machine, in which the facsimile machine is connected between the computer and a cable to the central office. The facsimile machine can be used as the printer or the scanner for the computer. In this device, the fax machine is greatly modified. Therefore, the user cannot use his original fax machine, and has to purchase a newly equipped fax machine to build such a system. If we want to modify the original fax unit to such an equipped fax machine, the cost of modification is extremely expensive (perhaps, it appeared to be so at that time). Moreover, such a device lacks informing means to advise the computer of the arrival of information (either transmitted from the central office or scanned from the fax machine), in advance so that the computer can prepare to receive it. Without the precedent information of the arrival of information, the computer may sometimes fail to receive it successfully.

      Following this statement, Paul Lin stated that the chief object of his invention was to provide an interface device that would make it possible to utilize an available fax machine as the printer and scanner of a computer without any change in the structure of the fax machine or the computer, while preserving all the inherent capability or the fax machine to communicate with the central office or remote fax terminals. U.S. Patent #4,991,200 was granted for this invention. It was followed by several other patents by other inventors interested in providing such an interface. This approach appears to have had some merit at that time. However, it never established a trend or an acceptable product.

      A MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE

      Closer to present-day multifunction peripherals, Toshiro Kita and nine associates of the Sharp Corporation, Osaka, Japan, proposed a machine coupled to a PC also through a parallel interface to accomplish various functions. A patent application titled Image Processing Device of a Multifunctional Type was filed in Japan on September 30, 1986. This machine had an on-line and an off-line control status.

      In the on-line control status, the following functions were selectively executed according to control commands provided to the device by the PC connected to it:

      Image input function. Image information read by the image read unit (the scanner) was transferred to the PC on the data bus according to control commands.

      Image print function. Image information sent from the PC to the image record control unit was printed.

      Fax function. Image information received by the device through the telephone line was transferred to the PC. Also, image information inputted from the PC was transmitted by the device through the telephone line.

      In the off-line control status, the device operated independently from the PC and the following functions were performed selectively:

      Copy function. Image information read by the image read unit (the scanner) was supplied to the image recording unit (the printer) on a data bus and printed according to the control information transferred from the main control unit.

      Fax function. Image information read by the image read unit (the scanner) was transferred to the fax control unit and then through the telephone line, according to the control information outputted from the main control. The image information received through the telephone line was recorded by the printer in the MFP.

      A block diagram of the multifunction device connected to a personal computer as described in Kita’s patent is shown in Figure 1.2. A main CPU controlled the MFP in accordance with each of the system programs stored in a ROM in advance. This main CPU was connected to a common data bus DB, an address bus AB, and a control bus CB. In the MFP, the ROM and the following units were connected to each of the buses DB, AB, and CB and controlled by the main CPU: a RAM, a CCD read control portion containing a slave CPU, an image data codec control portion containing a slave CPU, a transmission control portion containing a slave CPU, an interface connecting to the operation control panel, and a parallel interface to connect the MFP to the PC. In addition to the system programs in the MFP, the ROM had a command analyzing portion for transferring data to and receiving data from the PC.

      Figure 1.2 Block diagram of multifunction PC peripheral. (from Kita’s patent filed in Japan, September

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