Abstract: An image processing machine functions both as a facsimile machine and as an ordinary copying machine. The image processing machine is provided with a document scanning system and image-forming system. The document scanning system comprises a first scanning zone, a second scanning zone an image-receiving system, an optical system for optically connecting the first scanning zone and the second scanning zone to the image-receiving system, a first document scan moving system for moving a document across the first scanning zone and a second document scan moving system for moving a document across the second scanning zone. The image-forming system comprises printing system with a print output zone and a system for conveying a printing substrate through the printing output zone. An ink ribbon cartridge in the image forming system has a detector for detecting a broken ink ribbon.

Abstract: A document detecting apparatus for a copying machine, comprising a photo-sensor having a light projecting device which emits a measuring light from an inside of to an outside of a copying machine through an original glass plate, and a light receiving device which is installed at a position deviated from a path symmetric to an optical axis of said measuring light with respect to a normal line set up on a surface of the original glass plate and which is directed to receive a scattered light produced from the measuring light scattered at a surface of an original document placed on the original glass plate; and a microprocessor which judges whether or not the original document exists according to an intensity of a light measured by said photo-sensor.