Photocopying device with specified condition checking function

Claim 1

A copying device comprising: a photosensitive body; a document table for supporting a document, said document table including means for defining a dividing line, said document supported by said table being divided into first and second pages by said dividing line, a position of said dividing line being changeable; exposing means for exposing a document supported on said document table and for froming an image of the document on said photesensitive body, said exposing means initially exposing the first and second pages of said document at a time of a first and second exposure, respectively, to form images of said first and second pages on said photosensitive body at the time of said first and second exposures, respectively; transfer means for transferring the image formed on said photosensitie body to a copying sheet; copy number inputting means for inputting a predetermined number of copies; copy start command inputting means for inputting a start command; check command inputting means for inputting a check command; and copying operation control means for interrupting a copying operation after a preset number of copies are obtained if the check command has been input, and for restarting the copying operation to obtain a number of copies equal to the difference between the inputted predetermined number of copies and the preset number of copies in response to input of the check command again during the time the copying operation is interrupted.