Patent ID: 8132718

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) operating an automated banking machine to cause at least one sheet evaluation device of the machine to evaluate deposit acceptability for each of a plurality of sheets individually received from a stack of sheets provided to a sheet access area of the machine by an authorized user of the machine, wherein the machine is associated with at least one computer that is operable responsive at least in part to the at least one sheet evaluation device, to determine whether an evaluated sheet is one of acceptable for deposit, unacceptable for deposit but returnable to the user, and unacceptable for deposit but nonreturnable to the user; (b) operating the machine to individually store the sheets evaluated in (a) in a first sheet storage device in the machine, causing all of the plurality of sheets to be stored together in the first sheet storage device regardless of their deposit acceptability; (c) operating the machine to individually remove from the first sheet storage device, all of the sheets stored therein in (b); and (d) operating the machine to selectively divert sheets removed in (c), wherein the diverting causes all removed sheets determined to be acceptable for deposit, to be directed to a second sheet storage device in the machine, all removed sheets determined to be unacceptable for deposit but returnable to the user, to be returned to the sheet access area, and all removed sheets determined to be unacceptable for deposit but nonreturnable to the user, to be directed to a third sheet storage device in the machine, wherein each of the first sheet storage device, the second sheet storage device, and the third sheet storage device differ from each other.