Horizon International Inc.

Hiroyuki Ono

Eiji Katayama

Yoshinari Kuwabara

Hisahiro Hirayama

Katsumi Yamaguchi

There are provided a plurality of sheet feeding unitstoarranged in a vertical direction at spacing therebetween, a vertical sheet conveyance path G arranged oppositely with the sheet outletstoof the sheet feeding unitsto, conveyance meansandfor sequentially conveying the sheets fed from respective sheet feeding unitsto, vertically downward along the sheet conveyance path G, and control means controlling the sheet feeding unitstoand the conveyance meansandin such a manner that the sheets fed from the sheet feeding unitstoare conveyed while at least partially overlapping the sheets which are fed from a sheet feeding unit of a next lower site on the sheets which are fed from the sheet feeding unit of an upper site. Imaging meanstoare arranged oppositely with the sheets conveyed on the sheet conveyance path G, and the control means controls the motions of the imaging meanstoand detects collation errors based on image data captured from the imaging meansto

Vertical collating machine

Servers (,) respectively define printing informations (,) inclusive of identifying informations ID,, ID,of a paper block (,) and a cover (,) whereas printing machines (,) respectively perform a printing operation on the paper block (,) and the cover (,). Information readers (,) respectively read the printing informations of the paper block (,) and the cover (,) so as to supply the information thus acquired to a book-binding controller (,). Based on either of the informations thus supplied, the book-binding controller (,) supplies a book binding apparatus (,) or (,) with a control signal (CS) of settings for the book binding process. Additionally, the control signal (CS) of the settings for the book binding process is outputted when the ID,and ID,are in correspondence. Based on the printing information of the paper block, respective quantities of movement of the laterally movable members (,) are automatically regulated.

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Takashima, Japan

Hiroyuki Ono