Ricoh A229 - Basic Duplex Feed Operation; Up to A4; Letter Lengthwise

PAPER EXIT/DUPLEX
2-120
A229 SM
2.10.6 BASIC DUPLEX FEED OPERATION
To increase the productivity of duplex copying, a non-stacking style duplex
mechanism is adopted. This type of mechanism allows more than one page to be
processed at once, in a process called ‘interleaving’. Examples of this are given
below.
For paper lengths up to A4/Letter lengthwise, the top duplex speed is possible, with
the duplex unit processing three sheets of copy paper at the same time.
For paper longer than this, the duplex tray can still process two sheets of copy
paper at once.
In case of single set duplex copy job, the duplex stores only one sheet of copy
paper.
Up to A4 / Letter lengthwise
The duplex unit can process three sheets of copy paper
Example: A 14-page copy. The large numbers in the illustration show the order of
pages. The small numbers in circles show the order of sheets of copy paper (if
shaded, this indicates the second side).
1. The first 3 sheets are fed and
printed.
1) 1st sheet printed (1st page)
2) 2nd sheet printed (3rd page)
3) 3rd sheet printed (5th page)
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3 421
⇒⇒
5
⇒⇒
7
⇒⇒
9
1 2 3 1 4 2 5
12
⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒⇒
3 6 4 7 5 6 7
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