Method for marking a unique code onto a paper edge
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorJean-Luc Meunier
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Abstract
A method of marking a unique code onto an edge of a sheet of material takes N stacks of sheet material, each stack having N1 sheets; prints a barcode uniquely identifying each stack on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the stack has the barcode printed on its edge. N1 stacks of sheet material are formed by collating the N stacks of sheet, wherein each of the N1 stacks has N sheets of sheet material, one sheet from each of the N stacks of sheet material. A second barcode uniquely identifying each of the N1 stacks is printed on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the stack has the barcode printed on its edge.
Claims12
A method of marking a unique code onto an edge of a sheet of material, comprising:
- providing N stacks of sheet material, each stack having N1 sheets of sheet material;
- defining a unique first identification code for each of the N stacks of sheet material;
- for each of the N stacks, printing a barcode corresponding to that stack's unique first identification code on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the stack has the barcode printed on its edge;
- collating the N stacks of sheet material to form N1 stacks, wherein each of the N1 stacks has N sheets of sheet material, one sheet from each of the N stacks of sheet material;
- defining a unique second identification code for each of the N1 stacks of sheet material;
- for each of the N1 stacks, printing a barcode corresponding to that stack's unique identification code on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the stack has the barcode printed on its edge;
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- wherein each sheet of material in each of the N1 stacks has indicia arranged on at least one edge to form a code uniquely identifying the sheet of material.
A method of marking a unique code onto an edge of a sheet of material, comprising:
- providing N1 stacks of sheet material, each stack having N2sheets of sheet material, where N1 times a number N2=N;
- defining a unique first identification code for each of the N1 stacks of sheet material;
- for each of the N1 stacks, printing a barcode corresponding to that stack's unique first identification code on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the stack has the barcode printed on its edge;
- collating the N1 stacks of sheet material to form N2 stacks, wherein each of the N2 collated stacks has N1 sheets of sheet material, one sheet from each of the N1 stacks of sheet material;
- defining a unique second identification code for each of the N2 stacks of sheet material;
- for each of the N2 stacks, printing a barcode corresponding to that stack's unique identification code on at least one edge of the stack so that each sheet of sheet material in the stack has the barcode printed on its edge;
- forming a single ream comprising the N2 stacks;
- printing a third identification code on at least one edge of the ream so that each sheet of sheet material in the ream has the barcode printed on its edge;
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- wherein each sheet of material in the ream has indicia arranged on a least one edge to form a code uniquely identifying the sheet of material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.