Adaptive pressure media feeding

A method, comprising:

• setting, by a controller, a pressure against a bunch of media items being fed individually from the bunch through a media separator module;
• adaptively adjusting, by the controller, the pressure for separating a topmost item from the bunch when a downstream sensor of the media separator module fails to detect the topmost item from the bunch within a predetermined period of time;
• and
• iterating an incremental increase in the pressure by the controller until the topmost item is detected by the downstream sensor, wherein iterating further includes exiting iteration of the incremental increase in the pressure when a predetermined number of iterations is exhausted with no detection of the topmost item as having reached the downstream sensor, and wherein exiting further includes resetting a current pressure against the bunch to the initial pressure and backing the topmost item and the bunch back to an entry feed point of the media separator.

A method, comprising:

• (i) securing a bunch of media items within a tiltenator for feeding through a media separator at a first pressure;
• (ii) incrementally increasing, by a controller, the first pressure until a second pressure is reached where a topmost item of the bunch is detected as having reached a downstream sensor within the media separator;
• (iii) decreasing, by the controller, the second pressure to a third pressure as soon as the topmost item is detected as having reached the downstream sensor;
• (iv) setting, by the controller, the third pressure to the second pressure as soon as the topmost item is detected as having existed the media separator;
• and
• (v) iterating, by the controller, (ii) beginning with the second pressure to separate a next topmost item from the bunch for processing through the media separator.