Following to manner and the same manner which decide the validity of configuration of the media treatment system, being the manner which decides the validity

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for verifying validity of the configuration of a module in a system, in a printing system comprising a plurality of modules.;SOLUTION: A medium processing system comprises a configuration of N linked modules. Each module has an order based on the module's linkage in the configuration. Thus, a first module of order 1 links to a second module of order 2, and an (N-1)th module of order (N-1) links to an Nth module of order N in a similar fashion. A feeder module feeds a sheet of media to downstream modules. For each reporting module, the controller decides the module's order and type based on the reported time and reported type in the module's reporting message. The controller validates the configuration by determining when the order and the type for the reporting modules match a predetermined pattern.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI