Patent ID: 8180232

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 shield, 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; a printer controller cooperating with the print engine, receiver transport system, overlap positioning system, and 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 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 first toner image includes an edge concealment toner pattern positioned confronting the second edge with the edge concealment toner pattern having toner that reduces the visual impact of image artifacts created by the overlapping second edge.