Patent ID: 7178914

Claim:
A printer that prints by advancing a media sheet to an imaging station, stopping the printing sheet at the imaging station to effect partial imaging, and advancing the partially printed sheet in the imaging station to effect partial imaging, said printer comprising: a bin to hold a stack of media sheets to be imaged, nip rollers proximate to said imaging station, a sheet guide to direct sheets from said bin to said nip rollers, at least one sheet transport roller located between said bin and said nip rollers to transport sheets from said bin to said nip rollers directed by said guide, an exit transport device to remove printed sheets from said imaging station, and operation control means to cause a first media sheet to be moved from said bin by said sheet transport roller directed by said guide to said nip rollers and, when said first sheet leaves said sheet transport roller, to cause a second sheet to be moved from said bin and to be stopped at said sheet transport roller behind said first sheet and to subsequently cause said first sheet and said second sheet to both move intermittently with said imaging, wherein said nip rollers are separate from said sheet transport roller and operate to move said first sheet intermittently for imaging at said imaging station, and wherein said sheet transport roller is spaced from said bin and spaced from said nip, and operates to move said second sheet intermittently.