Copier with on-line and convenience staplers with shared power supply

In a reproducing method in which a reproducing apparatus automatically staples output sets of reproduction sheets with an intermittently electrically driven finishing stapler at a sets finishing area into which said output sets are automatically fed, which finishing stapler is intermittently driven by a stapler power supply providing driving power thereto;

• the improvement comprising:
• providing a separate, additional, electrically driven convenience stapler at a separate easily manually exteriorly accessible location of said reproducing apparatus, into which convenience stapler sheets are manually insertable for stapling,
• electrically driving said separate convenience stapler with said same stapler power supply, in response to said manual sheet insertion, on a controlled non-coincident basis relative to said driving of said finisher stapler, by inhibiting operation of said convenience stapler for a brief inhibition time period when said stapler power supply is providing said driving power for said finisher stapler, which inhibition time period is sufficiently brief that there is no significant operator-perceptible time delay in said operation of said separate convenience stapler on operator demand.