Patent ID: 8857813

Claim:
A media inverting system for a cut sheet printing system, comprising: a first media transport for advancing a media sheet along a first media transport path; a rotatable member continuously rotating in a rotation direction, the rotatable member being adapted to receive the media sheet from the first media transport and wrap the media sheet around the rotatable member; a rotatable member force mechanism switchable between a first state and a second state, such that when the rotatable member force mechanism is in its first state a first side of the media sheet is held to the rotatable member at least along a leading first edge of the media sheet, a trailing second edge of the media sheet not being held to the rotatable member, and when the rotatable member force mechanism is in its second state the media sheet is released from being held to the rotatable member; a second media transport for receiving the media sheet from the rotatable member and advancing the media sheet along a second media transport path; a second media transport force mechanism for holding a second side of the media sheet to the second media transport at least along the second edge of the media sheet; a control system for controlling the rotatable member force mechanism according to a control sequence including: switching the rotatable member force mechanism to its first state to receive the media sheet from the first media transport and hold the first side of the media sheet to the rotatable member while it is wrapped around the rotatable member; and switching the rotatable member force mechanism to its second state to release the media sheet from being held to the rotatable member in synchronization with the second edge of the media sheet being received by the second media transport such that the media sheet is unwrapped from around the rotatable member and advanced along the second media transport path so that the second edge of the media sheet becomes the leading edge.