plural media supply trays 110 112 114 fig1 are provided the transferred image is permanently fixed or fused and the resulting prints discharged to either output tray 118 fig1 or to finisher 120 finisher 120 provides certain finishing selections such as a stitcher for stitching or stapling the prints together to form books a thermal binder for adhesively binding the prints into books and or other finishing options such as slitting perforating saddle stitching folding trimming or the like printer system control 128 fig2 automatically and precisely controls all the printer functions and operations in accordance with job program parameters received from system control 54 of controller section 7 as well as from internally derived signals from sensors and processes within the printer section 8 printer system control signals are derived and distributed via a plurality of printed wiring boards pwbs in a multi processor architecture characterized by multiple microprocessor controller cores serially interconnected and also serially linked to more numerous input output processing circuit pwbs controller section 7 is for explanation purposes divided into an image input control 50 user interface ui 52 system control 54 main memory 56 image manipulation section 58 and image output control 60 the units 50 54 56 58 60 comprise a system which may.