Print skip avoidance for on-line compiling

Details Print skip avoidance for on-line compiling Print skip avoidance for on-line compiling

1993-05-07

1994-04-12

Grimley, A. T.

Photocopying

Contact printing

Light boxes

271 31, 271186, 355321, 355322, G03G 2100

Patent

active

053030176

ABSTRACT:
In a copier or printer producing a sequential stream of printed copy sheets with a limited space and time therebetween, and with compiling and finishing of those output sheets into plural collated finished sets on-line while subsequent sheets are being printed, an exit sheet feeder normally feeding copy sheets downstream to said compiler tray is selectably intermittently reversed to feed upstream the first copy sheet for the next set to be finished into an upstream diverter chute branching off from the regular sheet output path, assisted by a diverter gate there. The diverter chute has a reversible sheet feeder for feeding the first sheet into the diverter chute and then reversing to feed the first sheet out of the diverter chute in coordination with the passage past the diverter chute of the next subsequent copy sheet, so that both these copy sheets are fed downstream to the exit sheet feeder and into the compiler tray together, overlapped and with a substantial increase in the time between the first copy sheet and the preceding copy sheets being operated on in the compiler tray. A preset difference in relative sheet edge overlapping is provided to insure better compiler registration. With an additional entrance gate the same diverter chute may alternatively be used as an inverter.

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