System prompt of dual top tray/purge tray prior to output/purged sheets being sent to the top tray
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorKeith L. WILLIS
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Abstract
A method and system for allowing user control of tray usage policy. In the event that a system purge signal is generated, indicating a purge of existing product in the production pathway, and a system sensor indicates that a tray is not empty, production output will be delayed until a user responds to an alert that existing product in the output tray may be mixed will the purged product, or until a predetermined time period has elapsed at which time the system will automatically perform the purge event, thereby mixing non-production quality product and production quality product in the tray. The user may be presented with options based on the operating mode of the image forming device.
Claims20
A method for implementing a tray usage policy comprising:
- determining, during an image forming operation in an image forming device, that a purge event should be initiated in the image forming device;
- detecting a presence of an output product in an output tray;
- and
- processing the purge event based on the detected presence of the output product in the output tray.
A system for establishing a tray usage policy, comprising:
- a system controller that determines an operating condition of an image forming device;
- a purge determination unit that receives an input that a purge event should be initiated in an image forming device based on the operating condition of the image forming device;
- and
- a tray determination unit that determines a presence of an output product in an output tray;
- wherein the controller processes the purge event based on determinations made in the purge determination unit and the tray determination unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.