Method and apparatus for producing corner-bound portrait and landscape document sets

Apparatus for selectively producing common-corner bound portrait or landscape document sets, comprising;

• print means capable of selectively printing portrait or landscape images on a blank sheet,
• supply means containing blank sheets to be printed by said print means,
• set accumulator means located down stream of said print means,
• sheet feeding means for blank feeding sheets from said supply means and for feeding printed sheets from said print means to said set accumulator means,
• means coordinating operation of said printing means and said sheet feeding means in a manner to stack portrait-printed and landscape-printed sheets at said set accumulator means with common-corner orientation, and
• corner binding means mounted at said set accumulator means at a location coincident with said common-corner orientation.

Copier apparatus for selectively producing common-corner bound portrait or landscape document sets, from an original document set, comprising;

• transfer station means capable of selectively forming a toner portrait image or a toner landscape image on a surface of a blank sheet in accordance with the type of original document set being copied,
• supply means containing blank sheets on which toner images are to be formed,
• set accumulator means located down stream of said transfer station means,
• sheet feeding means for blank feeding sheets from said supply means and for feeding printed sheets from said transfer station means to said set accumulator means,
• means coordinating operation of said transfer station means and said sheet feeding means in a manner to stack portrait-copied sheets and landscape-copied sheets at said set accumulator means with common-corner orientation, in accordance with the type of original document set being copied, and
• corner binding means mounted at said set accumulator means at a location that is coincident with said common-corner orientation.