John W. Daughton

TL;DR: In this article, a sheet stacking system with an array of plural sheet stacking bins with sheet entrances for stacking plural flimsy print substrate sheets from a printed sheets output path into selected bins, with a sheet feeding input path system for feeding selected sheets into a selected bin to be stacked therein, and a bin fullness indicator system for indicating that the estimated height of the stack has reached a preset allowable maximum.

TL;DR: In this article, a data communications system has a programmable master controller including memory means and command byte generating means and a plurality of additional controllers providing input data bytes to the master controller and having means for receiving command bytes from the master controllers.

TL;DR: In this article, a printing system with a digital reproduction system communicating with a remote document processing station by way of a print server is provided, where the printing system includes a first queue of first jobs to be executed with the digital reproduction systems maintained at the print server and a second queue of second jobs in the second queue.

TL;DR: In this article, a sheet stacking system for stacking plural sheets from a printed sheets output path into at least one sheet stacking tray, including a stack height sensor for detecting the height of the stack of sheets in the tray and controlling a stacking control system, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, an authorization service for use with a multifunctional printing system is provided, where a first document processing service includes a first set of one or more document processing operations with each of the first set being performable relative to the electronic document.