Abstract: A controller for a multi-roll printer, a printing system with such a printer and such a controller and a method for controlling such a printer are provided. A user may assign print jobs directly to one of the rolls by assigning graphical representations the print jobs to regions corresponding to those rolls in a GUI. The user may also assign print jobs to a region in the GUI that is not associated with any particular roll, as a result of which each image of said print job is individually assigned automatically to at least one of the rolls.

Abstract: In a roll-fed printing apparatus and a method therefor, a controller receives a plurality of ripped images from a raster image processor in memory of the roll managing system irrespectively of the presence of the least one recording medium in the roll-fed printing apparatus. For each ripped image the roll managing system establishes an arbitrary position in the plane of the at least one recording medium at which arbitrary position the ripped image is intended to be printed. The controller creates subsequent image swathes for printing the ripped images according to the established arbitrary positions of the ripped images. While printing created subsequent image swathes, the roll managing system monitors a first actual status of printing of the created subsequent image swathes, a second actual status of a timing of the ripped images to be printed and a third actual status of the at least one receiving medium.

Abstract: A controller for a multi-roll printer, a printing system with such a printer and such a controller and a method for controlling such a printer are provided. A user may assign print jobs directly to one of the rolls by assigning graphical representations the print jobs to regions corresponding to those rolls in a GUI. The user may also assign print jobs to a region in the GUI that is not associated with any particular roll, as a result of which each image of said print job is individually assigned automatically to at least one of the rolls.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling the roll-fed printing apparatus for printing print jobs on a recording medium by means of a print mechanism.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus, a raster image processor, a software medium, and a method of controlling a roll-fed printing apparatus. The roll-fed printing apparatus comprises a print engine and a controller. The controller comprises a roll managing system for managing the printing of ripped images on at least one recording medium.

Abstract: A controller for a printer, a printing system, method for controlling a printer and a software medium are disclosed. The controller includes a process monitor configured to determine which images of a plurality of images are currently being processed simultaneously by the printer; and a display configured to indicate to a user, based on the determining by the process monitor, which images of the plurality of images are currently being processed simultaneously by the printer.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling a roll-fed printing apparatus for printing images on at least one recording medium are disclosed. The roll-fed apparatus includes a print engine, a controller including a roll managing system for managing the printing of ripped images on the at least one recording medium.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling a roll-fed printing apparatus for printing images on at least one recording medium from an image queue. A part of the image queue is saved. The part comprises the ripped images at established arbitrary positions on the roll of medium and events according to a plurality of event image objects placed in the image queue into a roll file which is stored in a history roll queue storage of the controller. At least part of the ripped images saved in the roll file are reprinted on a new roll of medium having a same roll width as the arbitrary roll width according to a sequence order and the arbitrary positions saved in the roll file. During reprinting, the corresponding events saved in the roll file are executed.

Abstract: A controller for a printer, a printing system, method for controlling a printer and a software medium are disclosed. The controller includes a process monitor configured to determine which images of a plurality of images are currently being processed simultaneously by the printer; and a display configured to indicate to a user, based on the determining by the process monitor, which images of the plurality of images are currently being processed simultaneously by the printer.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling a roll-fed printing apparatus for printing images on at least one recording medium from an image queue. A part of the image queue is saved. The part comprises the ripped images at established arbitrary positions on the roll of medium and events according to a plurality of event image objects placed in the image queue into a roll file which is stored in a history roll queue storage of the controller. At least part of the ripped images saved in the roll file are reprinted on a new roll of medium having a same roll width as the arbitrary roll width according to a sequence order and the arbitrary positions saved in the roll file. During reprinting, the corresponding events saved in the roll file are executed.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling a roll-fed printing apparatus for printing images on at least one recording medium are disclosed. The roll-fed apparatus includes a print engine, a controller including a roll managing system for managing the printing of ripped images on the at least one recording medium.

Abstract: A roll-fed printing apparatus and a method for controlling the roll-fed printing apparatus for printing print jobs on a recording medium by means of a print mechanism.

Abstract: A method for two-sided printing of digital images on a roll of media by means of a roll-to-roll system is provided. The roll-to-roll system includes a digital image queue including entries for digital images to be printed on the roll. For each digital image to be printed on a first side of the roll, a first entry is registered in the digital image queue, which entry includes at least one digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image. For each digital image to be printed on a second side of the roll, a second entry is registered in the digital image queue, which entry includes at least one digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image.

Abstract: 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 is disclosed. The roll-to-roll printing system includes a digital image queue including an entry for each digital image to be printed. The method includes registering in an entry of the digital image queue a 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 in the entry 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. A roll-to-roll printing system is configured to apply the method.

Abstract: A method for two-sided printing of digital images on a roll of media by means of a roll-to-roll system is provided. The roll-to-roll system includes a digital image queue including entries for digital images to be printed on the roll. For each digital image to be printed on a first side of the roll, a first entry is registered in the digital image queue, which entry includes at least one digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image. For each digital image to be printed on a second side of the roll, a second entry is registered in the digital image queue, which entry includes at least one digital item identifying the digital image and digital items of print properties of the digital image.

Abstract: 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 is disclosed. The roll-to-roll printing system includes a digital image queue including an entry for each digital image to be printed. The method includes registering in an entry of the digital image queue a 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 in the entry 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. A roll-to-roll printing system is configured to apply the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for predicting consumption of supply material for a plurality of print jobs in a printing system, each print job intended to consume supply material from at least one supply material container from a plurality of supply material containers in the printing system, the method comprising the steps of scheduling the plurality of print jobs in time, scheduling maintenance actions in time, for each supply material container establishing a supply material level in the supply material container before printing the plurality of print jobs, for each supply material container calculating a job consumption of supply material from the supply material container for each scheduled print job, for each supply material container calculating a maintenance consumption of supply material from the supply material container for each scheduled maintenance action, and for each supply material container calculating at which print job the supply material level of the supply material container reaches a