Patent ID: 8478145

Claim:
A printer for forming a durable combination of printed receivers, the printer comprising: a print engine cooperating with a receiver transport system to form a first toner image on a first side of a first receiver including toner in an overlap area and toner forming a toner edge shield, and a second toner image on a first side of a second receiver; an overlap positioning system cooperating with the receiver transport system to allow the first receiver to be overlapped with the second receiver; a fuser that fuses the first receiver and the second receiver; and, a printer controller cooperating with the print engine, the receiver transport system, the overlap positioning system and the fuser to cause a first toner image to be formed on the first side of the first receiver with toner at least in an overlap area proximate to a first edge of the first receiver; to overlap the first edge of the first receiver having a first thickness with a second edge of the second receiver having a second thickness at a second end and to fuse the overlapped first receiver and second receiver to cause the first toner image to bond to the first receiver, to cause the second toner image to bond to the second receiver, and to cause the toner in the overlap area to bond the first receiver to the second receiver; wherein the toner edge shield forms a first end confronting the second edge that extends from a first side of the first receiver to at least about 50% of the second thickness and that has a deflection surface that slopes toward a second end of the toner edge shield apart from the first end with the second end extending from the first side to a lesser extent than the first end.