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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2010
Applicant:
Michael D. Borton, Ontario, NY (US);
Inventor:
Michael D. Borton, Ontario, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for sheet feeding from a media stack in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow, sensing sheet separation in the media stack using a bar code scanning device, determining if the sheet separation meets predetermined criteria, wherein if the sheet separation does not meet the predetermined criteria, adjusting the air flow used for fluffing the media stack.