Foley & Lardner, Schwartz, Jeffery, Schwaab, Mack, Blumenthal & Evans
Thermal printer having image editing function
 A position in which an image of a second document is inserted into an image of a first document is designated by operating an operation panel. A scanner unit reads the image of the first document and a printing unit prints the read image of the first document on paper. That area of the first document image to be printed by the printing unit in which the image of the second document is inserted is masked. Paper on which the first docment image has been printed and an ink ribbon are set back to a position at which the printing operation for the first document image is started before the second document image is printed. The scanner unit reads the second document image and the printing unit prints the second document image read on a designated area of the paper on which the first document image has been printed by using ink of that portion of the ink ribbon which has not been used for printing the first document image. 
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
B
B41J
inventional
Tsutomu Masao
Masuda Saito