Method for using an imaging apparatus to generate image panels for assembly as a poster

An imaging apparatus configured to generate a plurality of image panels for assembly as a poster for displaying an image represented by image data, said image data having been divided into a plurality of image data portions representing a corresponding plurality of image portions of said image, comprising:

• a printing unit for performing printing operations;
• an incising unit for performing incising operations on a sheet of media, said incising unit including one of a perforation device and a cutting device;
• and
• a controller communicatively coupled to said printing unit and said incising unit, said controller executing program instructions to perform the acts of:
• determining an individual two-dimensional image boundary for each of said plurality of image data portions;
• associating a corresponding two-dimensional incising boundary with each said individual image boundary, wherein at least a portion of each said individual image boundary is coincident with said corresponding incising boundary;
• controlling said printing unit to perform the operation of printing an image portion of said plurality of image portions at a location on the sheet of media in accordance with said individual image boundary of an image data portion that corresponds to said image portion;
• controlling said incising unit to perform the operation of incising said sheet of media along said corresponding incising boundary that is associated with said individual image boundary of said image data portion that corresponds to said image portion to form an individual image panel of said plurality of image panels;
• and
• repeating the operations of printing and said incising until all of said plurality of image data portions are processed to form said plurality of image panels.

A method for generating a plurality of image panels for assembly as a poster for displaying an image represented by image data, said image data being divided into a plurality of image data portions representing a corresponding plurality of image portions of said image, comprising:

• (a) providing a sheet of media having a plurality of incisions formed on an outer boundary, said incisions formed by use of one of a perforation device and a cutting device within an imaging apparatus, and said outer boundary including a plurality of location tabs;
• (b) associating said outer boundary with an image boundary of one image portion of a plurality of image portions, wherein said image boundary is coincident with said outer boundary only where no location tab exists;
• and
• (c) feeding said sheet of media having said plurality of incisions formed on said outer boundary thereof and said plurality of location tabs into the imaging apparatus to print said one image portion on said sheet of media.