Method for scheduling printing of digital images from at least one input roll to at least one output roll in a roll-to-roll printing system

A roll-to-roll printing system for printing digital images comprising:

• at least one input holder for holding at least one input roll of media;
• a print engine to print digital images on media unwound from the at least one input roll in order to form at least one output roll of the printed media;
• at least one output holder for holding at least one output roll of the printed media;
• a controller comprising a digital image queue comprising an entry for each digital image to be printed, the entry comprising a first digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image;
• and
• a user interface for displaying and manipulating an entry of the digital image queue,
• wherein the entry comprises a second digital item identifying an input roll on which the digital image is going to be printed and a third digital item identifying an output roll on which the printed digital image is going to be wound, and
• wherein the controller is configured to:
• display the entry of the digital image queue by means of user operable digital representations of the digital items of the entry on a user interface of the roll-to-roll printing system,
• display a user operable digital pool item on the user interface, the user operable digital pool item comprising a plurality of representations of digital images to be printed;
• drag a digital image from the user operable digital pool item to a position among the user operable digital representations of the digital image queue;
• and
• create a new entry for the digital image at a location in the digital image queue, which location corresponds to said position.

A method for printing digital images on at least one input roll of media in order to form at least one output roll by means of a roll-to-roll printing system, the roll-to-roll printing system comprising a digital image queue comprising an entry for each digital image to be printed, the method comprising the steps of:

• registering a first digital item in an entry of the digital image queue, the first digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image;
• printing the digital image according to the order of the entry in the digital image queue;
• and
• registering a second digital item in the entry of the digital image queue, the second digital item identifying an input roll on which the digital image is going to be printed and a third digital item identifying an output roll on which the printed digital image is going to be wound,
• wherein the entry comprises a fourth digital item identifying an input holder for an input roll identified in the second digital item and a fifth digital item identifying an output holder for an output roll identified in the third digital item.