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Abstract

An available storage area of a store is divided into a plurality of storage sections, each having an equal storage capacity and the number of the storage sections being equal to the number of images to be produced, and multiple digital image signals obtained by opto-electrically scanning one scanning line of at least one original are simultaneously stored in the respective storage sections in parallel. The stored multiple digital image signals are extracted, in series, from the store by sequentially accessing the entire available storage area, regardless of the storage sections. Thereafter, one line of an output surface is electro-optically treated in accordance with the extracted multiple image signals to serial multiple images of one scanned line of the original, along the direction of the scanning line. A series of the abovementioned operations, from the storing operation to the treating operation, are repeated in succession until all the lines of the output surface are treated.

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