Substrate media registration system and method in a printing system

A substrate media registration system in a printing system comprising:

• a deskewing system configured to deskew substrate media;
• a reflexive system configured to detect the lateral position of the substrate media and at least one of a lead edge and trail edge of the substrate media while the substrate media is moving in the process direction;
• and
• a controller operatively coupled to the reflexive system and configured to control an ejection of ink from a print head of the reflexive system in response to detecting the lateral position of the substrate and the process direction position of at least one of the lead edge and trail edge of the substrate media.

A method of registering substrate media in a printing system comprising:

• deskewing the substrate media using at least one deskewing roller to perform at least one of aligning a lead edge of the substrate media to be substantially parallel to a cross-process direction and aligning the side edge of the media to be substantially parallel to a process direction of the printing system;
• transferring the substrate media to a media transport unit, a position of the substrate media being fixed with respect to the media transport unit;
• detecting a lateral position of the substrate media on the media transport unit when the substrate media is moving in the process direction past a lateral position sensor;
• detecting the process direction position of the substrate media on the media transport unit when the substrate media is moving in the process direction past an edge sensor;
• configuring a print head to compensate for the lateral position of the substrate media on the media transport unit;
• and
• ejecting ink from the print head in response to detecting process direction position of the substrate media.