Identifying a previuosly marked sheet
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJohn Randall Fredlund, Chen Quan
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method of printing on a sheet of recording medium included in a randomly oriented stack of recording media provided to a printing apparatus, the method comprising: a) using a scanning element disposed in a printing path of the printing apparatus to scan a first side of the sheet of recording medium to provide scan data; b) analyzing the scan data to determine whether the first side has previously been marked on; and c) making a predetermined indicator on the first side of the sheet of recording medium if it is determined that the first side has previously been marked on.
Claims14
A method of printing on a sheet of recording medium included in a randomly oriented stack of recording media provided to a printing apparatus, the method comprising:
- (a) using a scanning element disposed in a printing path of the printing apparatus to scan a first side of the sheet of recording medium to provide scan data;
- (b) analyzing the scan data to determine whether the first side has previously been marked on;
- and
- (c) making a predetermined indicator on the first side of the sheet of recording medium if it is determined that the first side has previously been marked on.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.