Patent ID: 8256767

Claim:
A method of registering a sheet moved substantially in a process direction along a substrate media handling assembly path, a lateral direction extending sideways relative to the process direction, the method comprising: measuring the arrival of at least one of a leading edge and a trailing edge of the sheet using a first sensor; measuring a first position of the sheet using a second sensor on a lateral edge of the sheet; performing a first adjustment moving the sheet laterally using the first position measurement, the first adjustment actuated by a sheet feeding nip prior to the sheet reaching a third sensor for measuring a second position of the sheet, the third sensor disposed downstream in the process direction of the second sensor and the sheet feeding nip; measuring a second position of the sheet using the third sensor on the lateral edge; and performing a second adjustment of the sheet with regard to at least one of sheet skew, sheet velocity and sheet lateral position using the second position measurement and the sheet feeding nip, wherein the first sensor is one of a plurality of trailing edge sensors, whereby the number of trailing edge sensors included is determined by a ratio of a sheet length differential over a distance between the third sensor and the sheet feeding nip.