Printing system for automatically delivering transparencies and regular sheets in proper order with different output modules
US5749024A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 28, 1997 |
| Grant date | May 5, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 28, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/00497
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a reproduction system providing an ordered output from a printer to a sheet output stacker of printed transparency sheets interleaved with corresponding paper sheets, with a choice of different output stacker units to be operatively connected to the printer, wherein at least one stacker provides face down stacking, and at least one other provides face up stacking; an automatic electronic printing order control system is automatically electronically activated by the connection of a stacker unit to the printer to change the ordered output of printed transparency sheets and paper sheets so that the transparency sheets will be ahead of their corresponding paper copy sheets regardless of which stacker is connected to the printer. In this example, paper sheets are outputted followed by their corresponding transparency sheets when a non inverting output unit with face up stacking is connected, and the transparency sheets are followed by their corresponding paper sheets when an output stacker with face down stacking is connected, which in this example is a sheet inverting stacker module.
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