Apparatus and method for printing a negotiable instrument in at least two colors
OwnerWilliam D. Hasewinkleinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system for printing negotiable instruments in at least two colors. A non-impact printer is operable to print with toner in at least one color and a dot-matrix printer operable to print in at least one additional color. The printers are coupled to each other so that the paper output by one of the printers is received by another of the printers and activates the other of the printers. A computer is connected to the printers and operable to transmit information to be printed by each of the printers to produce a negotiable instrument printed in at least two colors.
Claims30
A system for producing a negotiable instrument printed in at least two colors, the system comprising:
- a stand-alone non-impact printer operable to print in at least one color;
- a stand-alone impact-type dot-matrix printer operable to print in at least one additional color, the stand-alone printers positioned with respect to each other so that paper output by one of the stand-alone. printers is received by the other of the stand-alone printers;
- means on the other of the stand-alone printers for detecting the presence of the paper in an input position, and means responsive to said detection for activating the other of the stand-alone printers to print on the paper;
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- a computer connected to each of the stand-alone printers and programmed to transmit information to be printed to each of the stand-alone printers to produce the negotiable instrument printed in at least two colors.
A method for printing a negotiable instrument in at least two colors, the method comprising the steps of:
- printing a form for a negotiable instrument on paper in toner of at least one color with a stand-alone non-impact printer controlled by a programmed computer;
- printing information in at least one additional color on the paper with a second stand-alone printer, the information being controlled by the programmed computer, to produce a negotiable instrument printed in at least two colors;
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- guiding the paper from the first stand-alone printer to the second stand-alone printer so that the paper triggers a switch to turn on a document feed sequence of the second stand-alone printer;
- wherein one of the stand-alone printers is an impact-type, stand-alone, dot-matrix printer and another of the stand-alone printers is a non-impact type stand-alone printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.