Patent ID: 6654586
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
A print media sheet handling and imaging system with a sheet input tray, a sheet feeder, and a sheet stacking output tray, wherein said print media sheets of varying lateral dimensions may be sequentially fed from said sheet input tray by said sheet feeder to said imaging system and then ejected into said sheet stacking output tray for stacking superposed therein,wherein said sheet input tray has at least one laterally repositionable sheet side guide which is repositionable to said varying lateral dimensions of said print media sheets which are being fed from said sheet input tray by said sheet feeder to said imaging system; and wherein said sheet stacking output tray has at least one laterally repositionable sheet side guide repositionable to said varying lateral dimensions of said print media sheets which are being fed from said sheet input tray by said sheet feeder to said imaging system; and wherein said at least one laterally repositionable sheet side guide of said sheet stacking out put tray is automatically laterally repositioned by said lateral repositioning of said sheet side guide in said sheet input tray into a position providing sheet stacking scatter reduction of said print media sheets of varying lateral dimensions being ejected into said sheet stacking output tray for stacking superposed therein.