Printer or copier with two printing units and a method for the operation thereof

US6101364A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Oce Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Georg Boehmer · Munich, DE
• Joseph Dietl · Unterhaching, DE
• Hans Hahn · Unterhaching, DE
• Bernward Heller · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Hubert Mugrauer · Straubing, DE
• Otto Olbrich
• Reinhold Rigauer · Erding, DE
• Otto Rotheimer · Erding, DE
• Rudolf Seeberger · Lochham, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/00021
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for operating a printer or copier is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: supplying sheet-shaped material individually in succession through an input section to a first printing unit; printing an image pattern onto a sheet-shaped material with the first printing unit; sending the printed sheet-shaped material individually in succession from the first printing unit through an output section; supplying sheet-shaped material individually in succession through the input section to a second printing unit; printing an image onto the sheet-shaped material with the second printing unit; sending the printed sheet-shaped material individually in succession from the second printing unit through the output section; and in a simplex operating mode, alternating the supplying of sheet-shaped material to the first and second printing units by switching a first shunt disposed in the input section; and in a duplex operating mode, supplying printed sheet-shaped material, with printing disposed on a first side thereof, from the first printing unit through a first transfer printing transport path to a connecting channel to the second printer for printing transport path to the se…