A processor's method and apparatus is disclosed by which previously inspected and quality-marked prints of a customer's order are fed successively past a photoelectrically controlled sorting diverter which directs individual prints either into a reject chute or into selected storage compartments of a tilting loader for reprinting or customer delivery, respectively, such loader having an additional compartment to receive the associated cut films of an individual customer's order. Thereupon the loader, by a decelerating motion, dumps the contents of its respective compartments downwardly with the help of gravity and momentum into the open pockets formed between leaves of a carrier stock section positioned at the loading station and thereafter fed beyond the loading station for detachment from the body of carrier stock by tearing. A first stretch of feed chain advances the carrier stock to the loading station and a second stretch advances the loaded section of carrier stock beyond the loading station where it is torn from the body of the carrier by effecting relatively longitudinal movement between the chain stretches preferably along a preformed score line. Positive engagement of pins on the feed chain with holes in the carrier stock permits feeding and tearing off the sections successively. Separator mechanism coordinated with the tearing mechanism thereafter frees the severed section from the body of stock. Guides progressively spread apart the leaves of the carrier stock on approaching the loading station. Inspection grade marks of a color, contrasting with that of the control marks customarily applied to the print roll margins to time the cutting and the end-of-order stopping of a print cutter, are applied by an inspector and are sensed photoelectrically to control operation of the diverter and a pricing computer.
