US 11,720,042 B2
Printing system for printing on tabbed media
Chung-Hui Kuo, Fairport, NY (US); Thomas L. Schwartz, Fairport, NY (US); and David M. Gotham, Rochester, NY (US)
Assigned to EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, NY (US)
Filed by Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/516,827.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/113,269, filed on Nov. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0155717 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/5008 (2013.01) [G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G03G 15/5054 (2013.01); G03G 15/5062 (2013.01); G03G 15/6591 (2013.01); G03G 15/607 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00523 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00725 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system for printing on tabbed media having a plurality of tab positions, comprising:
a printing module for printing on sheets of tabbed media;
a front end for supplying image data to the printing module;
a media supply including a media tray adapted to be loaded with a plurality of sheets of tabbed media;
a media transport system configured to pick a next sheet of tabbed media from the media tray and direct it to the printing module;
a detection system configured to automatically detect the tab position of the picked sheet of tabbed media; and
a control system programmed to:
control the media transport system to pick the next sheet of tabbed media from the media tray;
control the detection system to detect the tab position for the sheet of tabbed media;
compare the detected tab position to an expected tab position and if the detected tab position is the same as the expected tab position instruct the front end to supply image data to be printed on the sheet of tabbed media having the expected tab position, and if the detected tab position is different from the expected tab position either:
instruct the front end to supply image data to be printed on the sheet of tabbed media having the detected tab position; or
control the media transport system to direct the sheet of tabbed media into a waste receptacle and pick one or more additional sheets of tabbed media until the detected tab position is the same as the expected tab position, and instruct the front end to supply image data to be printed on the sheet of tabbed media having the expected tab position; and
control the printing module to print the supplied image data on the sheet of tabbed media.