High speed electronic reprographic/printing machine
US4757348A · kind A · utility
Assignee
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 17, 1986 |
| Grant date | Jul 12, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 17, 2006 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/32561
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An electronic reprographics/printing machine with at least one scanning array for converting images on documents to image signals, a document tray for holding a stack of the documents to be scanned, a document transport to bring the documents from the tray to the array for scanning, a controller, an input device such as a keyboard, mouse, touch display, etc. for programming in programming parameters with an associated separator code, a control sheet with a bar code representation of the same separator code for interleaving with the documents for scanning by the array, a bar code discriminator for distinguishing documents with bar codes from documents without bar codes, a bar code reader for reading the bar code to identify the separator code thereon, and a control to match the separator code obtained from the control sheet with the separator code associated with the programming parameters whereby the controller operates the machine in accordance with the program parameters.
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