COPY PRODUCTION MACHINES HAVING JOB SEPARATION CAPABILITIES

摘要

A copy production machine selectively interleaves copy separation sheets between successive copy jobs, subjobs or job portions. The copy separation sheets can be from the same copy sheet supply source or from an alternate source. The supplied copy separation sheets need not be operated upon by the copy production machines for receiving an image. Such sheets may have been preimaged under certain situations. When copy sheet supply means have diverse size copy sheets the separation mode may be inhibited. The number of separation sheets supplied is a predetermined relationship between the number of copy receiving bins in an output portion receiving the copy separation sheets as well as the number of copies produced from a single image. The effective capacity of a collator is extended by such interleaving plus a programmable control that tallies copies made versus copies selected greater than the capacity of a collator such that the collator job is automatically segmented.