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US 2003/0189725 A1Published application
Variable data printing using family groupings
AssigneeNexPress Solutions LLC
InventorsDavid Kloosterman, Timothy F. Donahue
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining and preparing a plurality of production ready variable data print jobs from variable data print data which defines the layout and product intent data for a plurality of Instance Documents. Each of the Instance Documents contains a plurality of page definitions. Each production ready print job is determined based on a set of common characteristics that allow for a particular workflow configuration to efficiently produce it.
Claims20
A method of preparing a print job containing variable data comprising the steps of:
- providing a variable data print job that defines layout and product intent;
- identifying a plurality of groups of characteristics having elements pertaining to layout and product intent;
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- forming a plurality of production ready print jobs based on said groups of characteristics.
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A variable data printing (VDP) system comprising:
- a computational element within said system that is operatively connected to receive a VDP Job file defined by a plurality of Instance Documents in terms of layout and product intent;
- an interpreter associated with said computational element that can read layout and product intent within said Instance Documents;
- a user interface to said system that is capable of displaying data related to layout and product intent, said user interface allowing user selection of a plurality of sets of variants related to layout and product intent;
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- an organizing device within said computational element that takes user selection of said sets of variants and forms a plurality of groups.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.