Flexible paper attribute selection for printing operations
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorJavier A. MORALES
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Abstract
A printing system includes a printing device having one or more paper trays. A print job is received for the printing device having at least one attribute. A digital front end (DFE) of the printing device parses a print ticket for the print job to determine the attribute. One or more media definitions for papers within the printing system are determined based on the attribute. The media definitions are compared to a paper catalog for the printing device. A list of papers is generated from the paper catalog that supports the media definitions. The DFE determines whether a paper of the list of papers is assigned to a paper tray. The print job is matched to the paper tray and the paper related to the media definitions. The print job is processed using the paper in the paper tray.
Claims20
A method for managing printing operations, the method comprising:
- receiving a print job for a printing device, wherein the print job includes a print ticket;
- determining a plurality of media definitions for the print job from the print ticket, wherein each media definition of the plurality of media definitions corresponds to an attribute within a paper catalog for the printing device;
- generating a list of papers for the print job from a media catalog for the printing device based on the plurality of media definitions, wherein each paper includes the respective attribute for the applicable media definition;
- determining a paper of the list of papers to assign to the print job;
- and
- processing the print job using the paper.
A method for managing printing operations, the method comprising:
- receiving a print job for a printing device, wherein the print job includes a print ticket having at least one attribute having multiple values;
- determining a plurality of media definitions for the print job from the print ticket, wherein each media definition of the plurality of media definitions includes a value of the multiple values for the at least one attribute;
- generating a list of papers for the print job from a media catalog for the printing device based on the plurality of media definitions;
- determining a paper of the list of papers to assign to the print job;
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- processing the print job using the paper.
A method for assigning a paper to a print job at a printing device, the method comprising:
- determining media definitions for the print job based on a print ticket having at least one attribute;
- generating a list of media catalog entries from a paper catalog based on the media definitions for the print job;
- selecting a paper from the list of media catalog entries, wherein the paper includes the at least one attribute;
- assigning the paper to the print job;
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- printing the print job at the printing device using the paper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.