Patent ID: 8437014

Claim:
A printed sheet handling system for use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted documents comprised of one or more material sheets with each material sheet having a top narrow-edge, a distal bottom narrow-edge, and two side long-edges and printed merged document information having a head region and a bottom region, wherein the printed merged document information head region is printed proximate one of said material sheet narrow-edges on a continuous web of printable material to produce paired document sheets, wherein the continuous web has a direction of motion during the document printing process, wherein combined multi-sheet document sets produced from the LPEE formatted paired document sheets are correctly aligned head-to-head and with correctly number-sequenced pages, comprising: a. means for printing the LPEE formatted paired document sheets on the web; b. means for slitting said LPEE formatted paired document sheets into a first stream of sheets and a second stream of sheets; c. means for winding said streams into a first roll and a second roll; d. means for rotating said second roll 180°; e. means for withdrawing said first stream from a top of said first roll and said second stream from a bottom of said 180° rotated second roll, thereby flipping over printed information on said second stream sheets relative to printed information on said first stream of sheets, thus correctly orienting and page-sequencing the printed multi-sheet document sets; and f. means for cutting said first and second withdrawn streams into individual sheets and collating said individual sheets into document sets having said correctly number-sequenced pages.