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US 11,307,818 B2Granted
System and method for reprintable items
AssigneeCCL Label, Inc.
InventorsRandy Sioson, Phillip Mcgee, Colwin Chan
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Abstract
A printing system may generate custom user designs for printing. The designs may be associated with a selected print medium. The printing system may generate a custom template for a secondary printing on the print medium. The custom template may define print areas based on the print medium and the custom user design.
Claims19
A printer system comprising:
- a processor coupled to a memory storing computer-executable instructions, the processor executes or facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
- generating a customized design as a function of at least a user input and a print-receptive medium for receiving the customized design, wherein the customized design operatively identifies locations for printing first indicia on the print receptive medium during a first printing process;
- and
- generating a custom template for a secondary printing process of second indicia based on the customized design, wherein generating the custom template includes:
- identifying the locations of the first indicia associated with the customized design;
- determining restrictions for locating the second indicia based on the locations for printing the first indicia;
- and
- identifying safe print areas for the second indicia based on the determined restrictions.
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A method, comprising:
- generating a customized design as a function of at least a user input and a print-receptive medium for receiving the customized design, wherein the customized design operatively identifies locations for printing first indicia on the print receptive medium during a first printing process;
- printing the customized design on the print receptive medium;
- generating a custom template for a secondary printing process of second indicia onto the print receptive medium based on at least the customized design, wherein generating the custom template includes:
- identifying the locations of the first indicia associated with the customized design;
- determining restrictions for locating the second indicia based on the locations for printing the first indicia;
- and
- identifying safe print areas for the second indicia based on the determined restrictions such that the secondary indicia does not interfere with the first indicia when the secondary printing process is executed.
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A printer system comprising:
- a processor coupled to a memory storing computer-executable instructions, the processor executes or facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
- generating a customized design comprising first indicia and defining locations of the first indicia relative a print receptive medium, safe print areas for receiving second indicia on the print receptive medium, and restricted print areas associated with restricting printing of the second indicia;
- and
- generating a first custom template for a secondary printing process of the second indicia for printing on the print receptive medium after operative printing of the customized design, wherein the custom template indicates the safe print areas and the restricted print areas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.