# US 7,746,506 B2 · Image production using enhanced eye-marks > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,746,506 B2 - Document ID: US7746506B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 11/021,437 - Filed: 2004-12-22 - Published: 2005-10-13 - Granted: 2010-06-29 - Earliest claimed: 2004-04-08 - Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Inventors: Dan Arquilevich; Chris Stoumbos - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7746506B2 ## CPC - B41J 11/46: by marks or formations on the paper being fed - B26D 5/00: Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting - B26D 5/34: scanning being effected by a photosensitive device - B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - B26D: CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING (for growing crops or plants A01D, A01G; for fodder or straw A01F; for bulk butter A01J; for dough A21C; slaughtering A22B; for tobacco, cigars or cigarettes A24; marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; manufacturing footwear A43D; brushmaking A46D; surgery A61B; disintegrating, mincing or shredding in general B02C; cutting wire, making pins or nails B21F, B21G; of the kind used formetal B23; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; hand-held cutting tools B26B; perforating, cutting-out, stamping-out or punching, or severing by means other than cutting B26F; for wood B27; for stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices B65H35/00; for leather or upholstery B68, C14B; for glass C03B; making matches C06F; for peat C10F; for sugar C13B45/00; for textile materials D06H; civil engineering, building, mining, see Section E; for light guides G02B6/25; cutting processed photographic material G03D15/04) ## Abstract An image production method and system in which enhanced eye-marks are utilized. A method embodiment includes receiving image production instructions directing the production of an image. Enhanced eye-mark data is generated for an enhanced eye-mark having an instructive portion and a descriptive portion. An image forming device is caused to form the image and the enhanced eye-mark on print media. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image production method, comprising: receiving image production instructions directing the production of an image, the image production instructions corresponding to a print job; generating enhanced eye-mark data for an enhanced eye-mark having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion encoding a finishing instruction, the second portion providing a textual description of one of the finishing instruction and the print job, the third portion encoding data identifying the print job; causing an image forming device to form the image and the enhanced eye-mark on print media; electronically reading the first portion and the third portion of the enhanced eye-mark formed on the print media; decoding the first portion to identify the finishing instruction and the third portion to identify the print job; directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to the finishing instruction; and updating status data for the print job identified by decoding the third portion according to the performance of the finishing operation, the updated status data identifying a current status of the print job that includes an indication of the performance of the finishing operation. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the second portion provides a textual descriptions of the finishing instruction and the print job. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising electronically reading the first portion of the enhanced eye-mark formed on the print media and directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to the finishing instruction encoded by the first portion. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the second portion textually identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the second portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions by identifying the image. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein second descriptive portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions by identifying the print job. ### Claim 7 A computer readable medium storing a computer program, the computer program having instructions that when executed by a computing device cause a method to be performed, the method comprising: receiving image production instructions directing the production of an image, the image production instructions corresponding to a print job; generating enhanced eye-mark data for enhanced eye-mark, the enhanced eye-mark having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion encoding a finishing instruction, the second portion providing a textual description of one of the finishing instruction and the print job, the third portion encoding data identifying the print job; causing an image forming device to form the image and the enhanced eye-mark on print media; electronically reading the first portion and the third portion of the enhanced eye-mark formed on the print media, decoding the first portion to identify the finishing instruction and the third portion to identify the print job; directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to the finishing instruction; and updating status data for the print job identified by decoding the third portion according to the performance of the finishing operation, the updated status data identifying a current status of the print job that includes an indication of the performance of the finishing operation. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The medium of claim 7, wherein the descriptive portion provides a textual description of the finishing instruction. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The medium of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises electronically reading the first portion of the enhanced eye-mark and directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to a finishing instruction encoded by the first portion. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The medium of claim 7, wherein the second portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The medium of claim 10, wherein the second portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions by identifying the image. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The medium of claim 10, wherein the second portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions by identifying the print job. ### Claim 13 An image production system, comprising: a means for receiving image production instructions directing the production of an image, the image production instructions corresponding to a print job; a means for generating enhanced eye-mark data for an enhanced eye-mark having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion encoding a finishing instruction, the second portion providing a textual description of one of the finishing instruction and the print job, the third portion encoding data identifying the print job; a means for, at least indirectly, causing an image forming device to form the image and the enhanced eye-mark on print media; a means for electronically reading the first portion and the third portion of the enhanced eye-mark formed on the print media; a means for decoding the first portion to identify the finishing instruction and the third portion to identify the print job; a means for directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to the finishing instruction; and a means for updating status data for the print job identified by decoding the third portion according to the performance of the finishing operation, the updated status data identifying a current status of the print job that includes an indication of the performance of the finishing operation. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13, wherein the second portion provides a textual descriptions of the finishing instruction and the print job. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13, further comprising a means for electronically reading the first portion of the enhanced eye-mark formed on the print media and directing a performance of a finishing operation on the print media according to the finishing instruction encoded by the first portion. ### Claim 16 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13, wherein the second portion textually identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The system of claim 16, wherein the second portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions by identifying the image. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The system of claim 16, wherein second descriptive portion identifies a characteristic of the image production instructions by identifying the print job.