Xerox Corporation

Filomena K U

Kurt T Knodt

David E Crocker

John L Rourke

Gerald L Coy

James R Graves

Paul J Valliere

Herbert J Raymor

Jack F Ratcliffe, Ii

An electronic reprographic system with a scanner for scanning the document pages of a job and converting the document images scanned to pixels, a printer for making prints of the documents from the pixels in accordance with job programming instructions, a controller section with memory for use by both the scanner and the printer simultaneously, the scanner and printer operating asynchronously with respect to one another, the ability to abort scanning of a document when either the scanner or printer runs out of allocated system memory during operation, the system memory getting reallocated in preparation of a new scan, and the document that was not completely scanned getting rescanned.

Synchronization of ESS/IIT when scanning complex documents

An electronic printing system for printing bound documents such as books in which the pages of the document are placed face down in registered position on the platen of a scanner programmed to scan either or both sides of the page and provide image signals representative of the image scanned, and a printer programmable to either print both sides of a page on a common print media sheet or on separate print media sheets.

System for printing bound documents

Growing community of inventors

Fairport, NY, United States of America

Filomena K U