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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsFabio Giannetti, Benjamin I. Dempster, Kok-Wei Koh, Alysha Naples, Jose Manuel Perez
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The present disclosure provides methods and systems for aggregating print jobs of different lengths and/or customers to decrease the need for rewinding and splicing operations. An exemplary embodiment provides a method that comprises identifying individual label-printing jobs (1-8) that can be aggregated onto a roll of substrate (302), and forming an aggregated label-printing job (300). In the aggregated label-printing job (300) a longest print job (8) is imposed adjacent to a first end of the roll of substrate (302), and one or more shorter print jobs (2, 5, 7) are imposed adjacent to the longest print job (8) in the direction of a second end of the roll of substrate (302).
A print ordering system (606) for combining individual label-printing jobs (302-316) into an aggregated label-printing job (300), comprising:
A method (500) for aggregating label jobs, comprising:
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium (704), comprising code configured to direct a processor (702) to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.