Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090002726 | RASTER IMAGE PROCESSING OF HOLD JOBS WHEN DIGITAL FRONT END IS IDLE - Digital front end (DFE) raster image processing (RIP) performance is enhanced by automatically releasing and raster image processing held jobs, saving the print ready pages produced for later output. In this way, when an operator moves one of the held jobs to an active state, the job immediately starts printing, as there is no raster image processing required. A method for deciding when to release another held job is based on whether the digital front end or printer are idle or busy and may be suspended when disk space or other resources are unavailable or an interrupt is received. Advantages include improvement in the digital front end raster image processing rate and utilization of idle system resources to build a backlog of jobs or pages for output, without effecting normal digital front end print operations. | 01-01-2009 |
20090033977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AGGREGATING PRINT JOBS - A computer implemented method is provided for automatically aggregating multiple print jobs. The method includes: (A) combining first and second print jobs, each of which complies with a print processing related rule, and the combination of the first and second print jobs corresponds with a first print job size value; (B) receiving a third print job corresponding with a second print job size value; (C) aggregating the first, second and third print jobs into an aggregate print job when the third print job complies with the print processing related rule and a combination of the first, second and third print jobs results in an aggregate print job having a third print job size value that is less than a reference print job size value; and (D) producing a print output with the combination of the first print job and the second print job when the third print job complies with the print processing related rule and a combination of the first, second and third print jobs results in an aggregate print job having a fourth print job size value that exceeds the reference print job size value. | 02-05-2009 |
20100020346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING OF A PRINT JOB IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - A system and method of controlling printing of a print job in a printing system is provided. The print job includes a first section and a second section, with each one of the first and second sections including copyrighted content for which copyright clearance is required prior to printing. In one example of operation, the first and second sections are stored in memory and it is determined that copyright clearance is unavailable for one of the first and second sections. In response to such determining, either (1) printing of the one of the first and second sections is prohibited until it can be determined that a selected condition has been met, or (2) at least one operation is performed with respect to the one of the first and second sections so that only pages for which copyright clearance has been obtained can be printed. | 01-28-2010 |
20100020347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING OF A PRINT JOB IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - A system for controlling printing of a print job in a printing system is provided. In practice, a first value corresponding with a first proposed number of prints to be produced with the printing system is stored in a memory communicating with the controller. When the first value exceeds a number for which copyright clearance is available, a controller changes the first value corresponding with the first proposed number of prints to be produced to a second value corresponding with a second proposed number of prints to be produced. Additionally, when a selected condition is met the controller uses the second value corresponding with the second proposed number of prints to be produced to control the number of prints produced by the printing system. | 01-28-2010 |
20100020348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING OF A PRINT JOB IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - A system for controlling printing of a print job in a printing system is provided. In practice, a first value corresponding with a first proposed number of prints to be produced with the printing system is stored in a memory communicating with the controller. When use of the first value for printing the print job would cause the copyright royalty to exceed a selected threshold, the controller changes the first value corresponding with the first proposed number of prints to be produced to a second value corresponding with a second proposed number of prints to be produced. Additionally, when a selected condition is met the controller uses the second value corresponding with the second proposed number of prints to be produced to control the number of prints produced by the printing system. | 01-28-2010 |