description scanning has been effected by moving the original supporting table but it is of course possible to adopt a construction in which the image input device according to the embodiment of the present invention is moved fig5 is a perspective view of the image input and output device according to a second embodiment of the present invention and fig6 is a cross sectional view showing the construction thereof in more detail in these figures members similar to those in fig1 and 2 are given similar reference numerals the difference of the second embodiment from the first embodiment is that a printing portion 200 is provided on the back of the image input portion the printing portion 200 is constituted for example by a thermal head portion which comprises heat generating resistance members 122 and a wiring portion 121 for driving the same fig7 shows an example of the use of the second embodiment in fig7 reference numeral 123 designates a transfer medium and reference numerals 124 and 125 denote rotatable rollers the other reference numerals are similar in significance to those appearing in fig3 the operation of the second embodiment will now be described by reference of fig4 and 7 the original 118 and transfer medium 123 are fed between the rotatable rollers and the image input and output device of the present invention by the driving device not shown of the rotatable rollers 124 125 and the operation of the shift register 115 is started by a control circuit not shown and signal pulses are put out from the output terminal u25cb 1 u25cb 32 thereof.