Sorting a media stack using a printer

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a print media input holder; a print region; at least one media transport element for moving sheets of recording medium from the print media input holder to the print region; a scan element disposed along a printing path; and a print media output holder; and a controller including: a selectable media sort mode that includes: using the scan element to determine whether a sheet of recording medium has marks on a first side of the sheet; and moving the sheet of recording medium to a first location or a second location depending on whether the first side of the sheet is determined to have marks on it; and a selectable printing mode that does not include determining whether the sheet of recording medium has marks on it.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.