Abstract: A cartridge for feeding paper stock to a copier or printer. The cartridge functions by creating a folded stack of paper. The cartridge, when inserted into the tray of a copier or printer, has an opening in communication with the discharge outlet of the tray to allow the folded paper access to the copier or printer.

Abstract: An electronic reprographic printing system that extracts a tab image from a print job, document or memory for printing on tab stock. The extracted tab image can be rotated, shifted and scaled accordingly, to be printed in the tab area of a sheet of tab stock. Depending upon the cut of tab stock, the tab image is designated to be placed on a particular occurrence of a tab in a sequence of tabs. The tab images are stored sequentially in the system memory and may be edited as required. The print job including the tab images can be printed in its entirety.

Abstract: A method is provided for printing a job, represented by a set of electronic pages, with a job reference sheet in a printing system, the printing system having a printer and a scanner adapted to both convert the job into the set of electronic pages and decode machine readable code. The method includes the steps of storing the set of electronic pages in a memory section and assigning a unique job identifier to the stored job for indicating a location of the stored job in the memory section. The method further includes the steps of printing the job reference sheet so that the unique job identifier is designated on the job reference sheet in machine readable code and scanning the job reference sheet for reading the machine readable code to retrieve the set of electronic pages from the memory section for printing with the printer.

Abstract: A process is provided for operating an electronic printing system at a job site for producing print jobs from image signals, the electronic printing system having programming means for inputting printing instructions for the print jobs and a plurality of supply trays for supplying print media, including the steps of: identifying stock characteristics currently available for loading in the print media supply trays when printing the print jobs; identifying stock characteristics potentially selectable but not available at the site for loading in the print media supply trays; mapping individual ones of the unavailable stock characteristics with at least one of the available stock characteristics; on input of a print job, comparing a requested stock characteristic of the print job with the stock characteristics available; and where the requested stock characteristic is unavailable, using the mapping step to substitute a corresponding available stock characteristic for the unavailable, requested stock characteristi

Abstract: In a printer system which allows printing in multiple fonts, where the font to be used is specified in an encoded document to be printed, an operator designation of font equivalency is provided which specifies acceptable font substitutes of available fonts for unavailable fonts. Upon detection of a document specification of an unavailable font, a print controller searches a mapping of known fonts to available fonts to determine if an equivalent font has been designated. The mapping is operator-set in accordance with the operator perception of equivalence. Font equivalency mapping may be a yes/no equivalent, indicating substitution or job fault, or the mapping may have a multilevel substitution hierarchy, in which degress of equivalency are determined by the operator, and result in different warnings or machine operations dependent on different degrees of equivalency.

Abstract: A touch sensitive user interface of the type having a display screen for displaying an image; control logic responsive to the touch sensitive user interface for determining the contact position of a probe, such as a finger, thereon; a display menu of operating features, represented by a plurality of images on the display screen, so that a user may make touch selections on the images corresponding to operating features desired; a system controller for identifying a contact zone of a predetermined size with respect to the display screen, the control logic actuating the feature within the system represented by a displayed image in response to user touch within a corresponding contact zone, the system controller enlarging the contact zone of a selected feature upon selection thereof, to a size accommodating a probe tip, without overlapping on adjacent areas and upon completion of option selection, returning the expanded contact areas to said predetermined size.

Abstract: A pad, used with an optical mouse, including a substantially transparent sheet having a pattern of spaced dots on one surface thereof. One surface of a bottom sheet is positioned adjacent to the surface of the transparent sheet having the dots thereon. The other surface of the bottom sheet has a coefficient of friction sufficient to minimize slippage of the pad when an optical mouse is moved therealong.