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US 10,310,792 B2Granted
Mechanism for generating index separator pages
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsRobert F. Jessen, Philip K. Cihiwsky, Dean O. Miller, Jeffrey A. Sikkink
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Abstract
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a storage device and a print job manager that stores received print jobs in the storage device and facilitates the printing of multiple selected print jobs as a batch of print jobs. The print job manager includes a page generator to generate an index separator page including information for each of the selected print jobs with the batch of print jobs.
Claims21
A printing system comprising:
- a storage device to store a plurality of print jobs;
- and
- a processor to execute:
- a user interface;
- and
- a print job manager to receive a selection of two or more of the plurality of print jobs via the user interface as a first batch of print jobs and to release the first batch of print jobs for processing in response to the selection;
- and
- a page generator to generate an index separator page including information for each of the two or more print jobs in the first batch of print jobs,
- wherein the index separator page includes content information and disposition information indicating an action that has been performed for print jobs in the first batch of print jobs that did not print with the index separator page, wherein the disposition information further comprises a disposition date for each of the print jobs that did not print with the index separator page.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a selection of two or more of a plurality of stored print jobs as a first batch of print jobs via a user interface;
- releasing the first batch of print jobs for processing in response to the selection;
- generating an index separator page including information for each of the two or more print jobs in the first batch of print jobs, wherein the index separator page includes content information and disposition information indicating an action that has been performed for print jobs in the first batch of print jobs that did not print with the index separator page, wherein the disposition information further comprises a disposition date for each of the print jobs that did not print with the index separator page;
- and
- transmitting the index separator page with the first batch of print jobs for printing.
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A printer comprising:
- a controller, including:
- a storage device to store a plurality of print jobs;
- and
- a processor to execute:
- a user interface;
- and
- a print job manager to receive a selection of two or more of the plurality of print jobs via the user interface as a first batch of print jobs and to release the first batch of print jobs for processing in response to the selection;
- and
- a page generator to generate an index separator page including information for each of the two or more print jobs in the first batch of print jobs,
- wherein the index separator page includes content information and disposition information indicating an action that has been performed for print jobs in the first batch of print jobs that did not print with the index separator page, wherein the disposition information further comprises a disposition date for each of the print jobs that did not print with the index separator page.
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An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a selection of two or more of a plurality of stored print jobs as a first batch of print jobs via a user interface;
- releasing the first batch of print jobs for processing in response to the selection;
- generating an index separator page including information for each of the two or more print jobs in the first batch of print jobs, wherein the index separator page includes content information and disposition information indicating an action that has been performed for print jobs in the first batch of print jobs that did not print with the index separator page, wherein the disposition information further comprises a disposition date for each of the print jobs that did not print with the index separator page;
- and
- transmitting the index separator page with the first batch of print jobs for printing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.