A method for improving human interaction with a printer and its hardcopy output. The method provides printing a print job and placing it into an output bin followed with a pause before printing a banner page for that print job. However, this banner will not be printed if the print job is removed from the output bin before the pause concludes and thus thereby expedites any subsequent printing of output that may follow. This allows the individual to pick up their print job immediately without accruing the expense or waste of printing a banner sheet.