INSERTER WITH COLLATION TRACKING

摘要

An inserter and a method of tracking handled items in an inserter. The method includes: tracking individually-handled items; collation tracking of the individually-handled items in sets of mutually complementarily-associated items, each of the sets of mutually complementarily-associated items including a particular individual envelope and the particular insert or inserts intended for insertion thereinto; sensing individual items in the inserter, the sensing including detecting of defective items comprising damaged, mishandled, misaligned, and missing and multiple items when single items are supposed to be present; stigmatizing the mutually complementarily-associated items of a particular the set as being defective when at least one of the mutually complementarily-associated items of the particular the set has been detected as a defective item during the step of detecting; controlling and initiating corrective action in the inserter as a consequence of the detection of defective items; and updating tracking information in correspondence with corrective action taken by the step of controlling and initiating; wherein the steps of tracking and collation tracking include dynamic memorization of sensing information provided during the sensing step.