System and method for providing sheets to an inserter system using a rotary cutter

A method for generating sheets from a continuous web for creating mail pieces, the method comprising:

• feeding a web of printed material at a first velocity in a first direction;
• splitting the web along the first direction into at least two portions;
• cutting the portions of slit web transverse to the first direction while the web is transported at the first velocity to form side-by-side individual sheets;
• turning the side-by-side sheets at a right angle whereby the individual sheets are rearranged to be one on top of the other in a shingled arrangement;
• and
• pulling individual shingled sheets out from the shingled arrangement whereby sheets are thereafter transported serially and separated by predetermined gaps.

A method for generating sheets from a continuous web for creating mail pieces, the method comprising:

• feeding a web of printed material at a first velocity in a first direction;
• splitting the web along the first direction into at least two portions;
• cutting the portions of slit web transverse to the first direction while the web is transported at the first velocity to form side-by-side individual sheets;
• turning the side-by-side sheets at a right angle whereby the individual sheets are rearranged to be one on top of the other in a shingled arrangement;
• pulling individual shingled sheets out from the shingled arrangement whereby sheets are thereafter transported serially and separated by predetermined gaps;
• scanning a code on a document, the code indicating a number of sheets for a collation to which the document belongs,
• sensing a position of the scanned document and providing a position indication of the document,
• adjusting the first velocity as a function of the number of sheets in the collation prior to the step of pulling individual sheets out of the shingled arrangement, whereby a lower number of sheets in the collation corresponds to decreasing the first velocity, and a greater number of sheets in the collation corresponds to increasing the first velocity.