US 7,591,603 B2
Face-to-face printing within booklet
Robert M. Lofthus, Webster, N.Y. (US); Thomas M. Baretsky, Fairport, N.Y. (US); and Dusan Lysy, Fairport, N.Y. (US)
Assigned to Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, Conn. (US)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/926,973.
Application 10/948509 is a division of application No. 10/382615, filed on Mar. 05, 2003, granted, now 6,814,004.
Application 11/926973 is a continuation of application No. 10/948509, filed on Sep. 23, 2004, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2008/0089710 A1, Apr. 17, 2008
Int. Cl. B41J 3/54 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 400—82  [400/149; 271/291] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for producing a booklet, comprising:
a sorting component that sequentially orders a first plurality of images and a second plurality of images;
a feeder that sequentially feeds a plurality of two-sided sheets;
a first printing device that sequentially prints one of the first plurality of images on a first side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
a second printing device that sequentially prints one of the second plurality of images on a second side of each of the plurality of two-sided sheets;
an inverter that alternately inverts the plurality of two-sided imaged sheets; and
a stacker that sequentially stacks the inverted and non-inverted sheets so that images on opposing sides are printed by the same printing device, the plurality of two-sided sheets with images are used to produce a booklet in which a plurality of pages of the booklet each have an image printed thereon and each image has been printed by a same printing device as the image on an opposing page.