A method of controlling the velocity of a copy substrate in an electrophotographic
reproduction machine which includes a substrate registration system for transporting
and registering the substrate and a toner image traveling to a toner image transfer
point at a transfer velocity. The method includes decelerating the substrate from
a process velocity to a low velocity, where the transfer velocity is greater than
the low velocity and less than the process velocity, registering the substrate
via the substrate registration system, and accelerating the substrate to the transfer
velocity for image transfer.
