Printing and mailbox system for shared users with bins almost full

Abstract

In a networked or other shared users electronic printing system for printing plural print jobs of plural printed sheets of the different users, with a printer mailbox having a sheet distribution system for automatically directing and stacking into different individual mailbox bins, which are electronically assigned to different respective users, the respective print jobs of the respective users, a bin almost-full sensing system detects and signals that the stacking level of the printed sheets in the bin has reached a preset almost-full level which is less than the preset limited sheet full stacking capacity of the bin. A connecting mailbox control system may indicate to that user at that users remote terminal that only a preset limited further number of printed sheets may be directed to that same bin upon the actuation of the bin almost-full sensing system, and provide several user options, and/or automatically control the mailbox sheet distribution system to direct subsequent print jobs or a split portion of a print job to a different mailbox bin, or a higher sheet stacking capacity overflow bin.