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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1996
Barry P Mandel, Fairport, NY (US);
Terrence D Charland, Wolcott, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
In a shared users printing and mailboxing system, with a shared remote printer with an operatively connecting array of lockable mailboxes, in which system electronic print jobs from different users at different locations may be electronically sent to be printed, which hardcopy print jobs are automatically fed into respective selected lockable mailboxes, wherein the printer has an internal paper path for this printing with sheet jam clearance capability and a system for signaling a sheet jam, and at least one openable printer access door providing access to the paper path for jam clearances; a print job security improvement system with an automatic locking system for electronically locking the printer access door and an access door on the mailboxing system during printing of security sensitive print jobs to prevent access to the internal printer paper path, but automatically unlocking the printer access door after the hardcopies have reached the selected mailboxes if there is no sheet jam signal, and maintaining the printer access door locked if there is a sheet jam in the paper path until the automatic locking system is actuated by entry of an authorized jam clearance access code.