System for automatic print jobs separations in folders

Abstract

In reproduction systems in which a printer outputs a plurality of different plural sheet print jobs to a common stacking output, a system is provided for automatically separating respective print jobs into separate folders by loading selected folder paper stock into a paper source for the reproduction system, automatically feeding the folder paper stock to the same print jobs stacking output in the correct sequence with the feeding of the copy sheets of the print jobs, providing an open folder at the print jobs stacking output in a position to receive the copy sheets therein prior to the print job, then feeding the plural printed copy sheets of the print job into the open folder, closing the open folder around the print job, repeating the process for subsequent folders and their respective print jobs and stacking them substantially superposed in the common print jobs stacking output, with the closed folders providing clear distinctions and separations of the respective print jobs within their respective folders so that a selected print job can be readily removed as a unit within a folder from the common print jobs stacking output. The folders may be on-line separately printed in tab areas and folded. The folding can be uneven or skewed.