Patent ID: 7667878

Claim:
A diagnostics system for a document imaging system including a document feeder for feeding documents sequentially through a moving documents imaging station in which said moving documents are imaged through a moving documents transparent platen area, and wherein said document imaging station has an adjacent and larger documents transparent platen imaging area and a shared repositionable document illumination system that is normally positioned substantially under said moving documents transparent platen area for said imaging of said moving documents at said moving documents transparent platen area, and wherein said document feeder is liftable upwardly away from said moving documents transparent platen area to inactivate said document feeder and to expose said moving documents transparent platen area, wherein in response to said lifting of said document feeder an illumination lamp of said repositionable document illumination system is automatically retained under said moving documents transparent platen area and automatically illuminates said moving documents transparent platen area from underneath said moving documents transparent platen area to provide for contamination cleaning assistance for said moving documents transparent platen area; wherein in response to selection of an imaging operation for a stationary document, the illumination system moves to a park position substantially spaced from said moving documents transparent platen area for scanning the stationary document.