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Abstract

An electronic printer and multibin mailbox system for an electronically networked system of plural users of an electronic printer, in which printer mailbox system the individual users print jobs of printed sheets printed by the printer are automatically variably directed into particular electronically assigned print job storage mailbox bins of the multibin mailbox system, at least some of which mailbox bins are nominally locked but electronically unlockable mailbox bins providing restricted public access privacy storage of confidential print jobs, further including an electronic access code inputting system for individual users to respectively input a respective access code for unlocking their electronically assigned electronically unlockable user mailbox bins, and a control system for reporting to the individual user which locked mailbox bins are occupied by print jobs, the control system also monitoring and electronically providing a job removal prompting indicator display signal when the users leave print jobs unremoved from their mailbox bins for too long a time, exceeding a preset time period.

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