Patent ID: 8200142

Claim:
A method for improving productivity by facilitating job streaming stacks of multiple types of copy sheets to receive images of multiple jobs with each job containing multiple copy sheets from a single copy sheet tray of a copy sheet feeder module for processing within an electrostatographic printer without operator intervention, including: providing a multiple job queue; printing bar-coded cover sheets for each of said multiple jobs from information programmed in a stock library with said bar-coded cover sheets being the only sheets within said copy sheet tray with bar-codes thereon; loading stacks of different types of same-sized copy sheets for each job into said copy sheet tray of said copy sheet feeder module with corresponding cover sheets separating each job; providing a bar-code sensor within said copy sheet feeder module adapted to sense the bar-codes on said bar-coded cover sheets and confirm that the information sensed is what is in the job queue and set operating parameters of said copy sheet feeder module for the copy sheet type; providing a feed head positioned to feed copy sheets and cover sheets from said copy sheet tray of said copy sheet feeder module and initiating feeding of a bar-coded cover sheet for the first job of said multiple jobs to a copy sheet purge tray and any copy sheets remaining after the first job has been completed; feeding copy sheets for the first job of said multiple job queue to a marking module of said electrostatographic printer to receive images thereon with said imaged copy sheets being fed to an output tray that is separate from said purge tray; and prohibiting the feeding of copy sheets from said copy sheet tray when the sensed bar-code information does not match what is in the job queue.