Reproduction apparatus and method for correctly orienting principal copies and supplemental copies

Reproduction apparatus for assembling a first copy job comprising a plural number of identical copies of an original document of more than one page with a supplemental copy or print job comprising a like plural number of copy sheets, the apparatus comprising:

• a photosensitive member;
• an exposure station for receiving the pages of said original document in a exposure position for copying;
• first means for presenting each page of said original document to said exposure station for copying in a first mode having a first order for copying of said pages and for generating a first signal indicating that copying is in said first mode;
• second means for presenting each page of said original document to said exposure station for copying in a second mode having a second order for copying of said pages that is different from said first order and for generating a second signal indicating that copying is in said second mode;
• means for forming a latent image of each page of said original document onto said photosensitive member;
• developing means for developing said latent image on said charged photosensitive member to form a toner image thereon;
• transferring means for transferring said toner image formed by said developing means onto a copy sheet and fixing a copy of the page of the original document thereon;
• collating means for sorting said copy sheets of each copied page of said original document into a like number of collating bins wherein the copy sheets are stored in collated order;
• copy sheet feeding means for feeding copy sheets through said transferring means and to said collating means;
• controller means operable in response to commands entered by the user specifying the number of copies to be made of said original document and the selection of the first or second means for repetitively operating said imaging, developing, and transferring means for making a like number of copies of each page of the original document on a like number of copy sheets and for repetitively operating said copy sheet feeding means for providing said copy sheets of each page to said collating means for storage respectively in the bins in the first or second order in which the pages of said original document are copied;
• memory means for memorizing said first or second signals until said memory means are reset;
• means for inputting a supplemental copy or print job request;
• and wherein said controller means further comprises:
• means responsive to said first signal for successively making copies of information associated with the supplemental copy or print job on copy sheets and for successively operating said collating means for positioning of said supplemental copy or print job in a first orientation in each of said bins consistent with respect to the pages of each copy made of said original document therein;
• and
• means responsive to said second signal for successively making copies of information associated with the supplemental copy or print job on copy sheets and for successively operating said collating means for positioning said copy sheets of said supplemental copy or print job in a second orientation in each of said bins consistent with respect to the pages of each copy made of said original document therein.

Reproduction apparatus for assembling a first copy job including a plural number of identical copies of an original document of more than one page with a supplemental copy job including a like plural number of copy sheets, the apparatus comprising:

• means for reproducing the first copy job in either a first mode wherein the copies are made of said original document last page first to first page last copy order or a second mode wherein copies are made of said original document first page first to last page last copy order,
• collating means for sorting copy sheets of each copied page of said original document into a like number of collating bins wherein the copy sheets are stored in collated order;
• copy sheet feeding means for feeding copy sheets to said collating means;
• controller means operable in response to commands entered by the user specifying the number of copies to be made of said original document and the selection of the first mode or the second mode for repetitively operating said copy sheet feeding means for providing said copy sheets of each page to said collating means for storage respectively in the bins in the first or second order in which the pages of said original document are reproduced;
• said controller means further including means responsive to selection of said first mode for said first copy job for successively making copies of information associated with a supplemental copy and/or print job on copy sheets and for successively operating said collating means for positioning said copy sheets of said supplemental copy and/or print job in a first orientation in each of said bins consistent with respect to the pages of each copy made of said original document therein and means responsive to selection of said second mode for said first copy job for successively making copies of information associated with a supplemental copy and/or print job on copy sheets and for successively operating said collating means for positioning said copy sheets in a second orientation in each of said bins consistent with respect to the pages of each copy made of said original document therein.

A method for assembling copy sets of a first copy job including a plural number of identical copies of an original document of more than one page with a supplemental copy job including a like plural number of copy sheets, the method comprising:

• reproducing the first copy job in either a first mode wherein the copies are made of said original document last page first to first page last copy order or a second mode wherein copies are made of said original document first page first to last page last copy order,
• sorting copy sheets of each copied page of said original document into a like number of collating bins wherein the copy sheets are stored in collated order;
• feeding copy sheets to said collating bins;
• in response to commands entered by the user specifying the number of copies to be made of said original document and the selection of the first mode or the second mode, repetitively operating the feeding of copy sheets for storing copy sheets respectively in the bins in the first or second order in which the pages of said original document are reproduced;
• in response to selection of said first mode for said first copy job successively making copies of information associated with a supplemental copy and/or print job on copy sheets and successively positioning copy sheets of said supplemental copy and/or print job in a first orientation in each of said bins consistent with respect to the pages of each copy made of said original document therein and in response to selection of said second mode for said first copy job successively making copies of information associated with a supplemental copy and/or print job on copy sheets and successively positioning said copy sheets in a second orientation in each of said bins consistent with respect to the pages of each copy made of said original document therein.