| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tandem media tray free of a divider plate between neighboring media sheet stacks.SOLUTION: In a media tray 100, a mid-tray sensor 124 is put relatively equally distant between the tray front and the tray back. This allows the tray to be free of a divider plate between a front stack area 134 and a reserve stack area. After a user closes the tandem tray, an elevator plate lifts media to a lead stack location, and a slider plate 126 moves the media in a forward direction toward the tray front when the front media sensor does not detect the media in the front stack area, or whenever the mid-tray sensor detects media supplied between the front stack area and the reserve stack area. An alarm is produced when the front media sensor does not detect any of the media, or when the slider plate is unable to move when it should be able to move. |
