Patent ID: 8827616

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in a computing device, the program comprising: code that generates, in the computing device, a plurality of expected thickness values, each of the expected thickness values comprising a thickness associated with a plurality of pages in a stack; code that stores the expected thickness values in a thickness table in a memory of the computing device; code that identifies one of the expected thickness values based at least in part on input of an identifier associated with the pages in the stack; code that obtains an actual thickness of the pages of the stack from a sensor in data communication with a binding device, the sensor used to measure the actual thickness of the pages in the stack; code that compares, before binding the pages in the stack, the one of the expected thickness values associated with the pages in the stack to the actual thickness of the pages in the stack; and code that initiates a stop of the binding device if the actual thickness is not within a predefined delta of the one of the expected thickness values associated with the pages in the stack.