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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 08, 1998
Donald J Gusmano, Henrietta, NY (US);
Juan C Acebo, Ontario, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method for a producing prints from a print job with a plurality of electronic pages divided into a first print job segment having a first number of electronic pages and a second print job segment having a second number of electronic pages. The method includes the steps of: a) storing the first print job segment in the electronic precollation memory, wherein the first print job segment is about equal to the electronic page capacity of the electronic precollation memory; b) printing N copies of each electronic page of the first print job segment stored in the electronic precollation memory; c) storing the second print job segment in the electronic precollation memory; and d) printing N copies of each electronic page of the second print job segment stored in the electronic precollation memory. In practice, the N copies of the first print job segment are combined with the N copies of the second print job segment to obtain N print job sets, each of which N print job sets is representative of the plurality of electronic pages.