Patent ID: 7934642

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) reading data from a card presented by a user, through operation of a card reader in an automated banking machine; (b) operating the machine to determine that the data read in (a) corresponds to stored data associated with an authorized machine user; (c) receiving a stack of sheets from the authorized user in a sheet access area of a deposit accepting device of the machine, wherein a divider plate extends in the sheet access area, wherein the stack is received on a first side of the divider plate; (d) determining at least one property of each sheet received in (c) through operation of at least one sheet evaluation device of the machine; (e) causing all of the sheets determined in (d) to be stored together in a first sheet storage and retrieval device of the machine; (f) moving the sheets stored in (e) in the machine toward the sheet access area; (g) selectively diverting sheets moved in (f) to a second sheet storage and retrieval device, responsive at least in part to the at least one property of the respective sheet determined in (d); and (h) moving the sheets not diverted in (g) to the sheet access area on a second side of the divider plate opposed of the first side.