Printer mailbox system signaling overdue removals of print jobs from mailbox bins

Claim 1

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