Image forming apparatus and method for printing variable contents and attributes associated therewith
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMikita Haruyama, Kenji Ogasawara
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Abstract
Disclosed is printing a character forming image in an end part of each sheet of a plurality of sheets of paper which are to be sorted by an attribute, in an order of slicing a character which expresses the attribute of each sheet, based on what number sheet of paper is each sheet among a paper group which is sorted by the same attribute, the character forming image being obtained by sequentially slicing the character in a previously determined direction at a previously determined interval.
Claims15
An image forming method for variable printing, comprising:
- receiving, in an image forming apparatus, a print job for variable printing indicating two or more kinds of attributes;
- associating, in the image forming apparatus, information regarding an attribute from the two or more kinds of attributes with variable print contents on a top surface of a sheet of paper such that sheets with like variable print contents are associated with the same attribute from the two or more kinds of attributes;
- printing a character forming image of the attribute at a first position in a top-end part of each sheet of a plurality of sheets of paper, which are to be sorted by the attribute, by slicing a character that represents the attribute, based on a numerical position of the sheet of paper within a paper group sorted by the same attribute, wherein said character forming image for each sheet is obtained by sequentially slicing the character in a predetermined direction at a predetermined interval such that the plurality of sheets, when printed and stacked, displays, on a side-face of the printed stack of plurality of sheets, the character representing the attribute, for each of the two or more kinds of attributes.
An image forming apparatus to print a printing image for each sheet of a plurality of sheets of paper which are to be sorted by an attribute, comprising:
- a database for associating information on two or more kinds of attributes with respective variable print contents of the printing image of a sheet of paper such that sheets with like variable print contents are associated with the same attribute from the two or more kinds of attributes;
- a processing unit to synthesize a character forming image of an attribute, indicated in a print job for variable printing, with the printing image, at a first position in a top-end part of each sheet of the plurality of sheets of paper, said character forming image being synthesized with said printing image by slicing a character, which represents the attribute, based on a numerical position of the sheet of paper within a paper group sorted by the same attribute, the character forming image for each sheet being obtained by sequentially slicing the character in a predetermined direction at a predetermined interval;
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- a printing section to print the synthesized image such that the plurality of sheets, when printed and stacked, displays, on a side-face of the printed stack of plurality of sheets, the character representing the attribute, for each of the two or more kinds of attributes.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program, which causes a computer to perform the functions of:
- receiving a print job for variable printing indicating two or more kinds of attributes;
- associating information regarding an attribute from the two or more kinds of attributes with variable print contents on a top surface of a sheet of paper such that sheets with like variable print contents are associated with the same attribute from the two or more kinds of attributes;
- printing a character forming image of the attribute at a first position in a top-end part of each sheet of a plurality of sheets of paper, which are to be sorted by the attribute, by slicing a character that represents the attribute, based on a numerical position of the sheet of paper within a paper group sorted by the same attribute, wherein said character forming image for each sheet is obtained by sequentially slicing the character in a predetermined direction at a predetermined interval such that the plurality of sheets, when printed and stacked, displays, on a side-face of the printed stack of plurality of sheets, the character representing the attribute, for each of the two or more kinds of attributes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.