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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsJose J. Soler, Gary W. Roscoe, Kenneth P. Moore, Donald L. Miller, Richard E. Eisemann
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A technique is provided for controlling the interposition of one or more special sheets into a stream of regular imaged substrates. In one example, a point in time at which a special insert sheet should be fed from a special insertion sheet subsystem to the stream is determined by reference to plural sets of preset time periods. In this example, the preset time periods can be adjusted to accommodate print engine/interposing module machine clock fluctuations. In another example, interposition of a special insert sheet with the stream of regular imaged substrates is maintained at an acceptable level by comparing a distance between a special insert sheet fed to the stream and an adjacent regular imaged substrate with a predefined tolerance. The comparison can then be used to adjust feed times of special insert sheets subsequently fed to the stream.
In a printing system for producing a print job, the printing system including a print engine for imaging regular substrates, fed to the print engine from a regular substrate feeding apparatus, and delivering the imaged regular substrates as an output, an interposer and control apparatus comprising:
In a printing system for producing a print job, the printing system including a print engine for imaging regular substrates, fed to the print engine from a regular substrate feeding apparatus, and delivering the imaged regular substrates as an output, the delivered output including a series of spaces, an interposer and control apparatus comprising:
In a printing system for producing a print job, the printing system including a print engine for imaging regular substrates, fed to the print engine from a regular substrate feeding apparatus, and delivering the imaged regular substrates as output, the print engine being operatively coupled with a special sheet insertion system, the special sheet insertion system including a special sheet insertion subsystem and a special sheet insertion path passing by the special sheet insertion subsystem, the special sheet insertion subsystem being adapted to hold and feed special insert sheets to the special sheet insertion path for interposing one or more special insert sheets into the delivered output of imaged regular substrates, a method of feeding one of the special insert sheets to the special sheet insertion path at a selected point in time comprising:
In a printing system for producing a print job, the printing system including a print engine for imaging regular substrates, fed to the print engine from a regular substrate feeding apparatus, and delivering the imaged regular substrates as an output, the print engine being operatively coupled with a special sheet insertion subsystem, a special sheet insertion path passing by the special sheet insertion subsystem, the special sheet insertion subsystem being adapted to hold and feed special insert sheets into the special sheet insertion path so that one or more special insert sheets are interpossible with the delivered output of imaged regular substrates, a series of spaces being formed in the delivered output of imaged substrates for receiving first and second special insert sheets from the special sheet insertion subsystem when the first special insert sheet is fed from the special sheet insertion subsystem at a first scheduled point in time and the second special insert sheet is fed from the special sheet insertion subsystem at a second scheduled point in time, a method of controlling the feeding of the first and second special insert sheets comprising:
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