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US 6,976,798 B2Granted
Method for processing aggregate print jobs
AssigneeVistaPrint USA, Inc.
InventorsRobert Keane, Erik Robertson, Sebastien Coursol
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Abstract
The invention provides methods for managing print jobs. One such method includes (a) accumulating discrete print jobs electronically from respective customers, (b) aggregating the discrete print jobs into aggregate print jobs, each of the aggregate print jobs being printable at one time on units of an integral print medium, and (c) electronically distributing the aggregate print jobs to respective printers for printing.
Claims41
A method for processing aggregate print jobs comprising
- receiving an aggregate print job to be printed in a print run quantity, the aggregate print job containing individual print jobs arranged in a two-dimensional layout having a plurality of individual print jobs from different customers positioned in each of its two dimensions, and
- printing the aggregate print job on a substrate, the substrate being of a sufficiently large size to accommodate the simultaneous printing of all individual print jobs in the aggregate print job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.