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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1999
Ravi B. Sahay, San Diego, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method of printing personalized variable image requirements by (a) placing all print jobs with similar print image requirements into a particular group, all images for a specific entity in that group being a set; (b) printing images of each set in sequence of arrangement and in cycles, each cycle being a number of images up to the number of storage bins of a printing apparatus used for the print job; (c) storing the printed cycles in the storage bins until all sheets to the sets being stored there are completed; (d) unloading completed sets; repeating steps (b) and (c) if additional sets in the group require printing; (e) ending the print job if all sets for the group have been printed; (f) determining whether a next print job for another group is pending; (g) repeating steps (b)-(g)if a next print job is pending; and (h) ending all print jobs if no print job is pending.