Method and system for enhanced cutter throughput

Details Method and system for enhanced cutter throughput Method and system for enhanced cutter throughput

2006-10-13

2009-11-03

Nicholson, III, Leslie A (Department: 3651)

Sheet-material associating

With printing

Associating and folding, with rotary printer

C270S005020, C270S052070, C270S052090, C270S052110

Reexamination Certificate

active

07611133

ABSTRACT:
An improved inserter input system and method for transversely cutting a web of printed material into separate sheets, the web including a plurality of separated side-by-side sheets. A set of sheets on the web is transported to the cutting device. One or more of the sheets in the set belongs to a new collation for which sheets have not previously been cut. The system determines whether sufficient collation parking spots exist to accommodate a new collation. If there are no available collation parking spots, and if all of the sheets in the set belong to the new collation, then transverse cutting is delayed until an open collation parking spot becomes available. If there are no available collation parking spots, and if a subset of sheets belong to a prior collation, then the web is partially cut to separate only the sheet, or sheets, that belong to the prior collation. The cutting of the other sheet(s) is delayed until the open collation parking spot becomes available. If there is an available collation parking spot, then the cutting device transversely cuts the entire set of side-by-side sheets.

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