Patent ID: 7969592

Claim:
A method comprising: printing one or more media sheets using one or more printing devices; outputting said sheets from said printing devices to one or more output devices stacks of sheets; monitoring printing image quality parameters comprising at least one faulty image output parameter during said printing of said sheets; identifying potentially faulty sheets of said printed sheets that were printed when said image quality parameters were outside a predetermined normal image quality parameter range; maintaining one or more locations of said potentially faulty sheets within said stacks of sheets; and if a stack of sheets of said stacks of sheets contain one or more of said potentially faulty sheets, printing a printing fault cover sheet and outputting said printing fault cover sheet to said stack of sheets that contains said potentially faulty sheets, wherein said printing fault cover sheet identifies said locations of said potentially faulty sheets within said stack of sheets, wherein said printing fault cover sheet further comprises: a list of jobs complete included in the stacker; for transaction or variable data jobs, the starting and ending records contained within that stacker; and for partial jobs, the starting and ending sets/sheets within that stacker.