Abstract: An automatic document imaging mode selection system in a system for generating electronic images of documents, in which documents may be variously fed or registered on a document imaging platen with a plural mode automatic document handling system. Various document handling and/or image scanning modes of operation are automatically selected from among various available potential such modes by accessing various document handling status information and/or sensor inputs, and coordinating that information to automatically select an optimum such mode where the operator has not specifically selected a mode. This may further include automatically determining whether or not to conduct a special pre-scan cycle before image scanning is initiated, and/or taking into consideration inferences as to whether or not the document(s) had been previously imaged. It may further or additionally include automatically changing the registration or scanning position for the particular document in accordance with the mode selection.

Abstract: Copy sheets are scheduled for being printed and output by an imaging system according to a method in which the scheduling is selectively conducted in one of a first mode where for each set of copy sheets to be pritned, the copy sheets are consecutively output from the copy sheet paper path without any skipped pitches between each consecutively output copy sheet, and a second mode, where for each set of copy sheets to be printed, the copy sheets are output from the copy sheet paper path with skipped pitches between at least some of the consecutively output copy sheets. The second mode of operation results in copy sheets being output from the imaging device at a lower frequency than in the first mode.