Patent ID: 6249716
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
A method for printing and finishing documents, comprising:printing a number of documents in a particular order by means of a printer;transporting the printed documents to a finishing system;detecting the arrival of the documents in at least one position in the finishing system;performing finishing operations on the arrived documents in the finishing system, with the printed documents being finished in an order corresponding with the order in which the documents have been printed by the printer;the printer repeatedly generating a verification marking following one of said documents and prior to a next one of said documents;maintaining, while transporting the documents to the finishing system, an ordering of said documents and said verification markings between successive ones of those documents, which ordering corresponds with the order in which the printer's feeding said documents and generating the verification markings has been carried out;detecting the arrival of each of the verification markings in at least one position in the finishing system;counting the documents whose arrival has been detected in an interval limited by at least one of said verification markings;comparing the counted number of said arrived documents with a reference number of said arrived documents; andgenerating an error message if the counted number of said arrived documents does not agree with said reference number.