Patent ID: 8240555

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive to data read from data bearing records, including: a card reader, wherein the card reader operates to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts; a deposit accepting device, wherein the deposit accepting device is operative to receive sheets, wherein the deposit accepting device includes at least one sheet transport operative to move sheets in the deposit accepting device in engagement with the at least one sheet transport; at least one terminal processor and at least one terminal data store in operative connection with the at least one terminal processor, wherein the at least one terminal data store includes deposit accepting device operation instructions, wherein the at least one terminal processor is operative to cause the automated banking machine to cause financial transfers involving accounts corresponding to card data, and wherein the at least one terminal processor is operative responsive to the deposit accepting device operation instructions to cause the deposit accepting device to move sheets in engagement with the at least one sheet transport; at least one computer, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with at least one computer data store; wherein the at least one computer data store includes: device data, wherein the device data corresponds to a plurality of properties of the at least one sheet transport of the deposit accepting device; instruction data, wherein the instruction data corresponds to at least some of the deposit accepting device operation instructions; and sheet data, wherein the sheet data corresponds to three-dimensional scans of a plurality of used sheets, and for each of such sheets, a plurality of sheet parameters corresponding to sheet properties of the respective sheet; wherein the at least one computer is operative through use of the device data, the instruction data and the sheet data to simulate movement of each of the plurality of used sheets in the deposit accepting device, and wherein the at least one computer is operative to store in the at least one computer data store, data corresponding to simulated movement of each of the used sheets in the deposit accepting device.