With Means To Impose Randomly Actuated Control Of Auxiliary-operation Patents (Class 234/22)
  • Patent number: 8783553
    Abstract: A computerized system, method, and computer-readable media implementing a method for mass producing variable shaped printed products is presented. A set of cutlines defining a shape for the ordered item is associated with each ordered item. A ganging system selects a plurality of ordered items to be simultaneously produced. Individual cutter-ready outline files corresponding to the associated set of outlines for each of the items selected for production are rendered and inserted into a gang template to generate an aggregated cutlines gang file. The gang file and at least one sheet of substrate are submitted to a cutting system. The cutting system cuts the individual finished products from the substrate sheet(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: VISTAPRINT SCHWEIZ GmbH
    Inventors: Jacob A. Hyman, Marcel Gerber, Kristen R. Frias, Anthony A. Breen, Jr., Samuel R. Niles Peretz, Terence M. Tirrella