US 2016/0105571 A1Published application

Device and method for processing a reprographic job

AssigneeOce-Technologies B.V.

InventorsErnst P. Van Horssen, Jan H. Geels, Abraham Thijssen

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Abstract

Device for receiving a reprographic job comprising a first processing step on a media by a first processing apparatus and a second, subsequent processing step on the media by a second processing apparatus, wherein the media that are to be output by the first processing apparatus are to be subjected to media handling operations between the first processing step and the second processing step comprising unloading from the first processing apparatus, intermediate media handling operations, and loading in the second processing apparatus; the device comprising: a controller arranged for creating or receiving the reprographic job; the controller being further arranged to access a storage storing configuration information on the second processing apparatus, the configuration information relating to loading media in the second processing apparatus; wherein the controller is arranged to specify the first processing step in the first specification in the reprographic job in order to simplify the media handling operations.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A device for creating or receiving a reprographic job, the reprographic job comprising a first specification of a first processing step on a media by a first processing apparatus and a second specification of a second processing step on the media by a second processing apparatus,

wherein the media that are to be output by the first processing apparatus are to be subjected to media handling operations between the first processing step and the second processing step comprising unloading from the first processing apparatus, optional intermediate media handling operations, and loading in the second processing apparatus,
the device comprising:
a controller arranged for creating or receiving the reprographic job;
the controller being further arranged to access a storage storing configuration information on the second processing apparatus, the configuration information relating to loading media in the second processing apparatus;
wherein the controller is arranged to specify the first processing step in the first specification in the reprographic job in order to simplify the media handling operations, by performing at least one of:
determining a print order of documents in the reprographic job,
determining a print order of pages in a document in the reprographic job,
determining a print orientation of a page in a document in the reprographic job, and
determining a print side on a media sheet of a page in a document in the reprographic job;
wherein during determining the stored configuration information with regard to loading the second processing apparatus is taken into account.

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A method for processing a reprographic job, the reprographic job comprising a first specification of a first processing step on a media by a first processing apparatus and a second specification of a second processing step on the media by a second processing apparatus,

wherein the media that are to be output by the first processing apparatus are to be subjected to media handling operations between the first processing step and the second processing step comprising unloading from the first processing apparatus, optional intermediate media handling operations, and loading in the second processing apparatus;
the method comprising:
receiving or creating the reprographic job;
retrieving from the second specification in the reprographic job an apparatus type of the second processing apparatus;
retrieving from a storage storing configuration information on the second processing apparatus type, configuration information relating to loading media in the second processing apparatus;
performing at least one of the following steps:
a) determining a print order of documents in the reprographic job,
b) determining a print order of pages in a document in the reprographic job,
c) determining a print orientation of a page in a document in the reprographic job, and
d) determining a print side on a media sheet of a page in a document in the reprographic job;
wherein during determining the stored configuration information with regard to loading the second processing apparatus is taken into account;
and
in order to simplify the media handling operations, specifying:
a) the determined print order of documents in the reprographic job,
b) the determined print order of pages in a document in the reprographic job,
c) the determined print orientation of a page in a document in the reprographic job, and/or
d) the determined print side on a media sheet of a page in a document in the reprographic job,
in the first processing step in the first specification in the reprographic job.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/976,232Filed 21 Dec 2015
Priority: EP 13174856.83 Jul 2013
Published: 14 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04N 1/00244
With a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server: with a server, e.g. an internet server
G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1208
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours,…
G06F 3/1264
Job scheduling, e.g. queuing, determine appropriate device: by assigning post-processing resources