Patent ID: 7796936

Claim:
A method of transferring ordered images to respective sides of a first media substrate and a second media substrate in a duplex image forming device in which said media substrates are partially expelled from an image forming device, said order of images comprising a first image, a second image, a third image and a fourth image, said method comprising: transferring said second image to a first side of said first media substrate; transferring said fourth image to a first side of said second media substrate; transferring said first image to a second side of said first media substrate; transferring said third image to a second side of said second media substrate; wherein a first interpage gap extends between the second image and the fourth image, a second interpage gap extends between the fourth image and the first image, and a third interpage gap extends between the first image and the third image, with each of the interpage gaps being different; transferring a fifth image to a third media substrate following transferring the third image to the second side of the second media substrate; and varying the gaps between said media substrates as said media substrates are moved through the image forming device, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth images being part of a single print job.