Status reporting from multiple tray accessory

Details Status reporting from multiple tray accessory Status reporting from multiple tray accessory

1997-05-09

1998-05-26

Smith, Matthew S.

Electrophotography

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399393, G03G 1500

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057582491

ABSTRACT:
Two stacked paper trays (43, 45) are connected electrically by cable (53) and are physically combined, as by bolts. The combined unit has a single microprocessor (49). The paper trays communicate status, such as paper size and paper amount to the microprocessor. The microprocessor reports upon interrogation from a control processor (61) of a printer (7) that it is a multiple tray unit and reports the status for each unit. This avoids the use of a microprocessor with each tray.

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