Generating control data for a printing system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsRaz Zamir, Shlomi Ben David
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Abstract
A method of generating control data for a printing system includes receiving image data comprising an image to be printed by the printing system, determining a presence of a control mark in the image data, and generating control data for the printing system based on the control mark, the control data including at least an indication of the presence of the control mark.
Claims15
A computer-implemented method of generating control data for a printing system, the method comprising:
- receiving image data comprising an image to be printed by the printing system;
- receiving instruction data for a print job associated with the image data to be printed by the printing system;
- determining a presence of a control mark in the image data in response to receiving a flag associated with the instruction data, wherein the flag indicates a digital front end is to determine the presence of the control mark;
- and
- generating control data for the printing system based on the control mark, the control data including at least an indication of the presence of the control mark.
A printing system comprising:
- a digital front end comprising a processor and memory;
- and
- a printing apparatus communicatively coupled to the digital front end;
- wherein the digital front end is to:
- receive image data comprising an image to be printed by the printing apparatus;
- receive instruction data for a print job associated with the image to be printed by the printing apparatus;
- determine a presence of a control mark in the image data in response to receiving a flag associated with the instruction data, wherein the flag indicates the digital front end is to determine the presence of the control mark;
- generate control data based on the control mark, the control data including an indication of the presence of the control mark;
- and
- transmit the control data to the printing apparatus.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor, to:
- obtain image data corresponding to an image to be printed by a printing system;
- obtain instruction data for a print job associated with the image to be printed by the printing system;
- parse the image data to locate a control mark in the image data in response to receiving a flag associated with the instruction data, wherein the flag indicates a digital front end is to determine the presence of the control mark;
- generate control data based on the control mark, the control data including an indication of the presence of the control mark;
- and
- transmit the control data to the printing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.