The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Shigenori Matsubara, Irvine, CA (US);
Shigenori Matsubara, Irvine, CA (US);
Konica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for recovering from an interruption while executing color split printing is described. The document is split into two sub-documents. N sets of the first sub-document are printed on a first printer, and N sets of the second sub-document are printed on a second printer while merging sheets of the first sub-document using a paper inserter unit. When an interruption occurs when printing and merging the nset, the nset is skipped and the remaining sets are finished first. Then, the second printer instructs the user to place the printed sheets of the nset of the first sub-document starting from the first sheet after the point of interruption in the paper inserter unit. The second printer prints the nset of the second sub-document starting from the point of interruption while merging sheets of the first sub-document using the paper inserter unit to complete the nset.