Document copier printing a copy of an input sheet by retrieving an electronic document containing content of the input sheet

• US 8,018,605 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2010
• Issued: 09/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): EBRAHIMI DEHKORDY, SAEID
• Application Number:
  US12/848,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20100296132A1
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.12, 358/1.14, 358/1.16, 358/1.15, 358/296, 358/474, 358/401, 358/402, 358/1.13, 101/227, 101/490, 101/179, 700/90, 700/100, 700/225, 399/75, 399/83, 399/306, 399/373, 399/384, 400/282, 400/578, 400/373, 400/580
• US Class Current: 358/1.12
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/6538 Devices for collating sheet copy material, e.g. sorters, control, copies in staples form
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00822 Binder, e.g. glueing device
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00902 Sorting marks of jobs, e.g. on the sheet edges
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/005 only locally
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/02 using printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2215/0082 Architecture adapted for a particular function
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2215/0088 Collated printing

Abstract

A document copier is disclosed. The document copier has a code sensor for sensing coded data on a surface of a source page. The source page contains the coded data and content. A sheet transport mechanism configured to feed sheets of media through a media path and a print engine located in the media path for printing on sheets of media fed through the media path are also provided. A controller of the document copier identifies from the coded data an electronic document containing the content. That electronic document is retrieved by the controller, and the content is printed on a blank sheet of media.

Claims

1. A document copier comprising:

a code sensor for sensing coded data on a surface of a source page, the source page containing the coded data and content;

a sheet transport mechanism configured to feed sheets of media through a media path;

a print engine located in the media path for printing on sheets of media fed through the media path; and

a controller for identifying from the coded data an electronic document containing the content, for retrieving the electronic document, and for controlling the sheet transport mechanism and the print engine to print the content on a blank sheet of media.

2. The document copier of claim 1, wherein the code sensor is in the media path and the sheet transport mechanism is further configured to feed one or more source pages through the media path for sensing by the code sensor.

3. The document copier of claim 1, wherein the coded data comprises patterns printed on the source page and the code sensor images the source page.

4. The document copier of claim 3, wherein the code sensor includes a light source, projection and image capture optics, and an image sensor.

5. The document copier of claim 1, further including a document binding mechanism at an end of the media path for binding printed sheets together.

6. The document copier of claim 5, wherein the binding mechanism includes a glue applicator and a stamping mechanism for stamping glued sheets together.

7. The document copier of claim 1, wherein the print engine includes dual printheads arranged in a duplex printing arrangement.