Printing machine with variable counter control system
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorDemetrios Polyzoes
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Abstract
A printing machine includes a counter control system which has a plurality of counters, the system being programmed for any one of various billing schemes by inserting an inexpensive field changeable billing code circuit board into the machine. The operations of the counters vary, depending upon which billing code circuit board is inserted, each counter recording information which is needed for the billing scheme selected.
Claims2
In a reproduction machine of the type which produces and delivers a number of copies of an original to a receiving means during a run of a job, the improvement which comprises:
- a. first means for counting the total number of copies of an original delivered to the receiving means, second means for counting each copy of an original up to a first predetermined number which is delivered to the receiving means, and third means for counting the number of runs that exceed a predetermined length, the first, second, and third counting means including a plurality of counters for presenting visual indications of the events counted, and
- b. means for enabling at least some of the counters in accordance with a predetermined program, a billing circuit board detachably connected to the enabling means by mating connectors for defining the predetermined program, and means for detecting when a copy has been deposited in the receiving means and for sending an input to the counters in accordance with the predetermined program.
In a reproduction machine of the type which produces and delivers a number of copies of an original to a receiving means during a run of a job, the improvement which comprises:
- a. first means for counting the total number of copies of an original delivered to the receiving means, second means for counting each copy of an original up to a first predetermined number which is delivered to the receiving means, and means for counting each original copied on the job the first, second, and third counting means including a plurality of counters for presenting visual indications of the events counted, and
- b. means for enabling at least some of the counters in accordance with a predetermined program, a billing circuit board detachably connected to the enabling means by mating connectors for defining the predetermined program, and means for detecting when a copy has been deposited in the receiving means and for sending an input to the counters in accordance with the predetermined program.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.