| 摘要 |
<p>A hybrid mixed format document that contains document portions (16A-16N) prepared by different format sources, such as both black and white and colored pages, prepared by separately printing the colored pages on a color printer, and the black and white pages on a black and white printer. The two document portions are then put in separate locations within a mixed format finishing device (10). One of the document portions, for example the black and white document portion, includes a cover sheet (22) that provides encoded information (26), which tells the finishing device how to merge the two document portions into a complete publication (36). One advantage of the mixed format finishing device is that those pages that contain only text may be printed on a faster, and less costly black and white printer. In a preferred embodiment, the cover sheet controls the document merging process in such a manner that if one document is misprinted or mismerged, the mismerged document may be shuttled aside and merging may continue with the next complete document set.</p> |
