Patents Assigned to Reischling Press, Inc.
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Publication number: 20150170244Abstract: A computer-implemented method for multi-vendor printing including maintaining a data store that includes information about service level agreements with partner systems, wherein a partner system enables customers to order a plurality of customized print products, and wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for manufacturing customer print orders, and characteristics of print vendors, receiving a customer print order from one of the partner systems, the print order specifying a customized print product, determining a latest ship date for the customized print product, selecting one of the print vendors to manufacture the customized print product, and receiving updates from the selected print vendor and relaying the received updates to the partner system that issued the customer print order.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Samuel J. Comstock, Gregory Gaskill Dent, Jianming Zhang, Christopher Cunningham, Marcus van Kempen
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Patent number: 8736885Abstract: A method for end-to-end printing, including entering into service level agreements with each of a plurality of partner systems that enable customers to order personalized print products, wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for finishing customer print orders, receiving customer print orders transmitted from the plurality of partner systems, each print order specifying at least one personalized print product, serializing the print orders into a plurality of work items, each work item corresponding to a part of a personalized print product that is to be printed on printable material, dynamically assigning priorities to the work items, dynamically advancing the work items through a plurality of print processing states, wherein each processing state processes work items in order of their priorities.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Mark Gustafson, Sam Comstock
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Publication number: 20140108188Abstract: A computer-implemented method for multi-vendor printing including maintaining a data store that includes information about service level agreements with partner systems, wherein a partner system enables customers to order a plurality of customized print products, and wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for manufacturing customer print orders, and characteristics of print vendors, receiving a customer print order from one of the partner systems, the print order specifying a customized print product, determining a latest ship date for the customized print product, selecting one of the print vendors to manufacture the customized print product, and receiving updates from the selected print vendor and relaying the received updates to the partner system that issued the customer print order.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Samuel J. Comstock, Gregory Gaskill Dent, Jianming Zhang, Christopher Cunningham, Marcus van Kempen
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Patent number: 8503015Abstract: A method and system for managing print jobs in a printing system, including assigning one or more printing resources including at least one printer to a print value stream, the print value stream capable of printing one or more parts from one or more print products, maintaining a prioritized queue of print jobs to be processed by the print value stream, dynamically updating a cadence rate that indicates the maximum number of print units to be printed by the print value stream during a specified period of time, and providing the print jobs from the prioritized queue in priority order to the print value stream at a rate so as not to exceed the cadence rate. The approach is related in principle to Takt Time or Taktzeit.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Mark W. Gustafson, Robert Mitchell
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Publication number: 20130063781Abstract: A method for end-to-end printing, including entering into service level agreements with each of a plurality of partner systems that enable customers to order personalized print products, wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for finishing customer print orders, receiving customer print orders transmitted from the plurality of partner systems, each print order specifying at least one personalized print product, serializing the print orders into a plurality of work items, each work item corresponding to a part of a personalized print product that is to be printed on printable material, dynamically assigning priorities to the work items, dynamically advancing the work items through a plurality of print processing states, wherein each processing state processes work items in order of their priorities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: REISCHLING PRESS, INC.Inventors: Mark Gustafson, Robert Mitchell
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Patent number: 8310696Abstract: A method for end-to-end printing, including entering into service level agreements with each of a plurality of partner systems that enable customers to order personalized print products, wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for finishing customer print orders, receiving customer print orders forwarded from the plurality of partner systems, each print order specifying at least one personalized print product, serializing the print orders into a plurality of work items, each work item corresponding to a part of a personalized print product that is to be printed on printable material, dynamically assigning priorities to the work items, dynamically advancing the work items through a plurality of print processing states, wherein each processing state processes work items in order of their priorities.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Mark Gustafson, Sam Comstock
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Publication number: 20100195155Abstract: A method and system for managing print jobs in a printing system, comprising assigning one or more printing resources including at least one printer to a print value stream, the print value stream capable of printing one or more parts from one or more print products, maintaining a prioritized queue of print jobs to be processed by the print value stream, dynamically updating a cadence rate that indicates the maximum number of print units to be printed by said print value stream during a specified period of time, and providing the print jobs from the prioritized queue in priority order to the print value stream at a rate so as not to exceed the cadence rate. The approach is related in principle to Takt Time or Taktzeit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: REISCHLING PRESS, INC.Inventors: Mark W. Gustafson, Robert Mitchell
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Patent number: D679278Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Sun Hee Cho, Christopher Paul Tanner, Traci Pichette
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Patent number: D680120Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Reischling Press, Inc.Inventors: Sun Hee Cho, Christopher Paul Tanner, Traci Pichette