US 6,900,882 B2 · Print processing method, printing order receiving machine and print processing device

Abstract

A method and a device are provided for automating receipt of orders for additional printing of a photographic print, including order information relating to desired image processing. In a print order receiving machine, when a photographic print is inserted, an image of the photographic print is read and displayed on a monitor (steps 150, 152). When order conditions are inputted, an image which is processed on the basis of the order conditions is displayed on the monitor (steps 154 through 158). Further, when input of the order conditions is completed, the order conditions and order information based on the order conditions are set. The set order information is printed onto a photographic print as an invisible two-dimensional bar code. Copying processing of the photographic print is carried out on the basis of the order information which is read from the photographic print.

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A print processing method for carrying out print processing in which an image which corresponds to a visible image recorded on an image recording medium is formed onto a new image recording medium, said method comprising the steps of:

reading and displaying the image which is formed on the image recording medium;
changing the displayed image by carrying out image processing on the basis of processing conditions which are set in accordance with inputted order conditions;
electronically recording order information, which includes the processing conditions and the inputted order conditions onto one of the image recording medium on which the visible image is formed and an order information recording medium;
and
forming the image which is formed on the image recording medium onto the new image recording medium on the basis of the electronic order information,
wherein the order information electronically recorded onto the image recording medium is invisible.

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