Face-to-face printing within booklet
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRobert Lofthus, Thomas Baretsky, Dusan Lysy
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Abstract
Method for printing pages within a booklet to improve the appearance of images on opposing pages includes sequencing images such that opposing pages are printed with the same print engine and/or fused the same number of times. Booklets include opposing pages having images fused the same number of times and/or printed with the same print engine as the image on the opposing page.
Claims20
A system for producing a booklet, comprising
- a sorting component that sequentially orders a first plurality of images and a second plurality of images;
- a feeder that sequentially feeds a plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a printer that sequentially transfers one of the first plurality of images on a first side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a fixer that fixes the transferred images on each sheet;
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- an inverter that sequentially inverts a first pass of each one of the imaged plurality of two-sided sheets, wherein the printer subsequently sequentially transfers one of the second plurality of images on a second side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets, the fixer fixes the transferred images and the inverter inverts alternate sheets on a second pass of the plurality of two-sided printed sheets, and the plurality of two-sided sheets are arranged to facilitate creating an associated booklet in which a plurality of pages of the booklet each have an image contained thereon and each image has been subject to a fixing process a same number of times as the image on an opposing page.
A system for producing a booklet, comprising:
- a sorting component that sequentially orders a first plurality of images and a second plurality of images;
- a feeder that sequentially feeds a plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a first printing device that sequentially prints one of the first plurality of images on a first side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a second printing device that sequentially prints one of the second plurality of images on a second side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
- an inverter that alternately inverts the plurality of two-sided imaged sheets;
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- a stacker that sequentially stacks the inverted and non-inverted sheets so that images on opposing sides are printed by the same printing device, the plurality of two-sided sheets with images are used to produce a booklet in which a plurality of pages of the booklet each have an image printed thereon and each image has been printed by a same printing device as the image on an opposing page.
8 The system according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the first and the second printing engines prints via a direct marking process.
The system according to claim 8, wherein at least one of the first and the second printing engines includes an ink jet, a solid ink jet, and a thermal ink jet printer.
A xerographic system for producing a booklet, comprising
- a sorting component that sequentially orders a first plurality of images and a second plurality of images;
- a feeder that sequentially feeds a plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a first printing device that sequentially transfers one of the first plurality of images on a first side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a fixer that fixes the image transferred to the first side of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
- a second printing device that sequentially transfers one of the second plurality of images on a second side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
- wherein the fixer fixes images transferred to the second side on each of the plurality of two-sided sheets and concurrently fixes the image transferred to the first side of the plurality of two-sided sheets a second time;
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- a stacker that sequentially stacks the inverted and non-inverted sheets, the plurality of two-sided sheets with images are used to produce a booklet in which a plurality of pages of the booklet each have an image contained thereon and each image has been subject to a fixing process a same number of times as the image on an opposing page and each image has been printed by a same printing device as the image on an opposing page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.