Method and system for acquisition and storage of image job model including image information and imaging device production state performance information
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsLalit Keshav Mestha, Ann Lerene McCarthy, Shriram V. Revankar
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for obtaining an archival model of a selected print job executed in a network imaging system comprised of a plurality of imaging engines. The print job is archived to include job data comprising the imaging information defining the desired job and the production status performance data of the particular engine at about the time of the executing of the job. The job data and the engine performance data are associated and archived for later retrieval for enhanced temporal and distributed consistency in a reprinting of the job.
Claims18
A system for enhanced archival storage and reprinting consistency of print job data, comprising:
- an image forming device for generating an image from the print job data wherein the print job data comprises image information and image forming information, and
- wherein the image forming information comprises real-time production state data of the image forming device, and wherein the real-time production state data selectively includes media, halftone, color model, image information, fonts, process setpoints, process actuators, native response of the print engine “TRCs, or color difference numbers such as deltaE2000 numbers;
- and, an image repository for storing the image forming information and image information for selective communication to another image forming engine or the image forming engine upon a desired reprint of the print job data.
A method for enhancing distributed and temporal imaging consistency in a networked imaging system including a plurality of image forming devices, comprising:
- generating an image from one or more of the forming devices from job data representing the image;
- obtaining production state performance data of the generating forming device at about a time of the generating;
- associating the job data and the production state performance data as a model representation of the generated image;
- storing the model representation in an image repository as an archival record of the image;
- and re-imaging of the image at a later time including:
- obtaining later production state performance data from a later generating image forming device at about a time of the later generating;
- adjusting the model representation and the later production state performance data for enhancing imaging consistency between the generated image and the re-imaging of the image;
- and, re-imaging the image with the later generating image forming device.
A xerographic imaging system having enhanced distributed and temporal imaging consistency between image forming devices networked therein, comprising:
- an image forming device for generating an image from print job data wherein the print job data comprises image information and image forming information, and wherein the image forming information comprises real-time production state data of the image forming device, and wherein the real-time production state data selectively includes media, halftone, color model, image information, fonts, process setpoints, process actuators, native response of the print engine, TRCs, or color difference numbers such as deltaE2000 numbers;
- a controller for measuring production state performance data representative of operational forming of the image by the forming device at about a time of the generating;
- and, an image repository wherein the image data and the production state performance data are associated as an archival model.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.