High speed printer with dual alternate sheet inverters
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorJames S. Stoll
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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorJames S. Stoll
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In high speed reproduction apparatus in which closely spaced printed sheets are sequentially fed downstream in a sheet path at a process velocity, a dual inverter system of two independent but cooperative sheet inverters is sheet control gated to receive alternate sheets from the sheet path for inversion in the alternate independent sheet inverters. These dual alternate sheet inverters may advantageously operate at substantially the same sheet velocity as the connecting sheet path, instead of the much higher speed and acceleration/deceleration typical of conventional single inverter systems. This enables less critical higher speed cut sheet handling and thus more reliable faster printing. Yet collated sequential sheet order is maintained. This dual inverter system may be an integral part of a duplex path to provide inversion of sheets for duplex printing of their other sides.
A single high speed print engine with a sheet output path in which closely spaced apart printed sheets printed by single high speed print engine are sequentially fed downstream at high speed in said sheet output path in a desired sheet sequence from said single high speed print engine,
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