HIGH SPEED FORMS BUFFER

摘要

An apparatus (24) that stores and synchronizes printed forms (30) that are being transferred between a high speed forms printer (18) and a mechanism (16) for attaching plastic cards to the forms. The apparatus is also able to buffer the forms that are in progress in the printer should the card processing system need to be shut down or paused. The apparatus (24) creates a shingled stack of forms (30), with the bottommost form in the stack being fed to the attaching mechanism (16) as needed.