Patent ID: 8416450
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: B41F,B65H

Abstract:
1. A system for printing and assembling correctly page-sequenced documents sets that are formatted and printed in a lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatting on a continuous web of printable material, wherein the continuous web has a central axis in a direction of motion of the continuous web during printing and wherein each said documents set is comprised of one or more material sheets with each material sheet having a first side page and a second side page with each material sheet having a top narrow-edge, a distal bottom narrow-edge, and two side long-edges and printed merged document information for each printed page having a head region and a bottom region, wherein said printed merged document information head region is printed proximate one of said material sheet narrow-edges to produce paired first and second material sheets and said paired material sheets have a common axis that is perpendicular to the central axis of the continuous web, wherein when said document set is comprised of more than one printed page, even number printed pages are printed on one of said first and said second sides of said material sheet and odd number printed pages are printed on an opposite side of said first and said second sides of said material sheet, comprising: a) a printer, wherein said printer includes a print head that prints a portion of both of said paired first and second material sheets; b) a slitter for separating the LPEE formatted documents pages into a first stream continuous sheets containing said first material sheets and a second stream of continuous sheets containing said second material sheets; c) means for flipping said first stream of continuous sheets thereby aligning a printed page sequence for more than one page document sets of said first stream with a printed page sequence for more than one page documents sets of said second stream that leads to the assemble of correctly page-sequenced documents sets; d) a cutter that produces separates material sheets from both said flipped first and said second streams of continuous sheets; and e) a computer controller having programming for directing printing and tracking of said LPEE formatted document pages and verifying the formation of correctly page-sequenced document sets.