Roll-fed printing assembly, software medium, and method for controlling a roll-fed printing assembly

A roll-fed printing assembly for printing images on a recording medium, comprising:

• a pausing system configured to detect a pause state during executing of a first print job containing a batch of nested individual jobs, the first print job being raster image processed into one bitmap;
• the pausing system being further configured to stop the executing of the first print job in response to the detecting of the pause state;
• a workflow engine configured to determine, for each job of the batch of nested individual jobs, whether that individual job belongs to either:
• a first group of individual jobs that have already been printed successfully when the executing of the first print job was stopped, or to
• a second group of individual jobs that have not yet been printed successfully when the executing of the first print job was stopped;
• the workflow engine further configured to create a second print job by automatic re-nesting of at least the jobs of the second group based on at least one nesting criterion, the second print job being raster image processed into one bitmap;
• and
• a printer controller configured to control the printing assembly to execute the second print job,
• wherein
• the workflow engine is configured to determine whether each job of the first print job belongs to the first group or to the second group is performed by:
• determining at which stopping position, of the one bitmap representing the first print job, the executing of the first print job was stopped;
• identifying which of the jobs of the first print job were not completely comprised in the printed section of the one bitmap preceding the determined stopping position;
• and
• determining these identified jobs as belonging to the second group and the remaining jobs of the first print job as belonging to the first group.

A roll-fed printing assembly for printing images on a recording medium, comprising:

• a pausing system configured to detect a pause state during executing of a first print job containing a batch of nested individual jobs, the first print job being raster image processed into one bitmap;
• the pausing system being further configured to stop the executing of the first print job in response to the detecting of the pause state;
• a workflow engine configured to determine, for each job of the batch of nested individual jobs, whether that individual job belongs to either:
• a first group of individual jobs that have already been printed successfully when the executing of the first print job was stopped,
• or to
• a second group of individual jobs that have not yet been printed successfully when the executing of the first print job was stopped;
• the workflow engine further configured to create a second print job, the second print job being raster image processed into one bitmap;
• and
• a printer controller configured to control the printing assembly to execute the second print job,
• wherein
• the workflow engine is configured to determine whether each job of the first print job belongs to the first group or to the second group is performed by:
• determining at which stopping position, of the one bitmap representing the first print job, the executing of the first print job was stopped;
• identifying which of the jobs of the first print job were not completely comprised in the printed section of the one bitmap preceding the determined stopping position;
• and
• determining these identified jobs as belonging to the second group and the remaining jobs of the first print job as belonging to the first group, and
• wherein the roll-fed printing assembly further comprises a user interface which is configured to show a representative image of the recording medium and to show on the representative image the stopping position on the recording medium and an image of a print job which is interrupted while printed, and to move the image to another desired location on the recording medium by means of the representative image of the recording medium, and wherein the print job which is interrupted while printed being a job of the second group.