Abstract: A system and a method for driving an output device in which both product intent and production details are entered by a print producer on a submission portal. When a product definition is complete, the job is transferred to a prepress server where it is rendered which involves pre-flighting the job. In a next step, rendered color separations together with output device specific instructions are sent to a print server from where the job is printed.

Abstract: A system and a method for driving an output device in which both product intent and production details are entered by a print producer on a submission portal. When a product definition is complete, the job is transferred to a prepress server where it is rendered which involves pre-flighting the job. In a next step, rendered color separations together with output device specific instructions are sent to a print server from where the job is printed.

Abstract: A method for reassigning a section out of a plurality of sections of a digitally represented printed product from an original signature to a new signature for producing said section, the method including (i) displaying a table on a computer display, wherein the table includes a list of items, each item representing a section and including (a) a section identifier, (b) a signature identifier associated to the section identifier and representing a signature to which the section is assigned and (c) a signature portion index indicating a portion of the signature corresponding to the section; (ii) selecting on the computer display a specific item including a specific signature portion index; and (iii) moving on the computer display the specific signature portion index from one item to another one, thereby assigning a different section to a specific signature having the specific signature portion index.

Abstract: A method for defining an imposition plan for producing a first portion of a first printed product and a second portion of a second printed product, the method including (a) defining a first run list of the first portion; (b) defining a second run list of the second portion; (c) including a first page of the first run list and a second page of the second run list in a signature of the imposition plan for producing the first portion of the first printed product and the second portion of the second printed product.

Abstract: A method for making a digital representation of a printed product includes: getting first input data including data selected from the group of a total number of content pages of the printed product and a cover type of the printed product; generating from the first input data a first digital representation of the printed product; getting second input data, different from the first input data; and refining the first digital representation of the printed product by using the second input data, thus obtaining a second digital representation of the printed product.

Abstract: A computer program and system for printing a digital image product that includes an image, the system including: a plurality of servers capable of communicating with each other via a network: a client server for obtaining from a customer a printing order of the digital image product; a main server for receiving the printing order from the client server; a plurality of laboratory servers, each coupled to printing means for printing the digital image product; and a dedicated image server, different from the main server and different from the laboratory servers, and having means for storing the image as digital image data and bringing the image on-line on the network.

Abstract: A method for managing the manufacture of a printed product, the method including (a) determining by a project management system a product definition for digitally representing the printed product; (b) determining a planning for manufacturing the printed product; (c) proposing a modification of the product definition due to a constraint of the planning; (d) requesting a person for approval of the modification of the product definition.

Abstract: A method for making a digital representation of a printed product, the method including (a) getting input data that include a total number of content pages of the printed product, or a total number of inserts of the printed product, or a cover type of the printed product, or a binding method of the printed product; (b) generating from the input data a product structure for digitally representing the printed product, wherein the product structure includes a plurality of specific parts that are cover parts, content parts or insert parts, and wherein each of the specific parts includes a plurality of pages for remaining connected together during manufacturing of the printed product; (c) generating a separate digital representation for each of the specific parts.

Abstract: A method for maintaining a topology information of a topology of a system including a computer network, a first computer and a second computer connected to the first computer via the computer network, the method including (a) sending, to a bootstrap router for maintaining the topology information and running on the first computer, a first message indicating a modification of the topology of the system; (b) receiving the first message by the bootstrap router; (c) updating the topology information maintained by the bootstrap router; (d) sending by the bootstrap router a second message indicating the updated topology information to a router running on the second computer.

Abstract: A method for defining a storefront for showing to a customer a product set including a digital image product for being ordered by the customer, wherein the storefront has storefront-related data including first data defining the digital image product and second data selected from the group of payment data and shipment data, the method including (a) defining a hierarchical configuration of partners, wherein the partners include a first partner and a second partner, different from the first one; (b) defining the first data by the first partner; and (c) defining the second data by the second partner

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for digitizing a color negative picture and correcting the image signals in a way that they are linearly related to the luminance of the photographed scene for grey tones in the scene. A second embodiment allows obtaining on the basis of the color-corrected image signals a reproduction of true color of the scene on a color display unit. For determining the correction, use is made of the characteristic system curve indicating for each of the color components the relation between the luminance of a neutral color swatch in the scene and the density sensed by the scan system. Several methods for drafting said system curve are described. Furthermore, the way of obtaining the color-corrected image signals by means of a color transformation and the way of determining the transformation are explained.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for scanning original images wherein the original images are scanned by a scanner and processed in a computer workstation. The scanning of an original image is carried out simultaneously with the processing of at least one other original image. A method and apparatus for scanning an original image wherein the original image is scanned in bands by a scanner and processed in a computer workstation. The scanning of one band is carried out simultaneously with the processing of at least one other band.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for digitizing a color negative picture and correcting the image signals in a way that they are linearly related to the luminance of the photographed scene for grey tones in the scene. A second embodiment allows obtaining on the basis of the color-corrected image signals a reproduction of true color of the scene on a color display unit. For determining the correction, use is made of the characteristic system curve indicating for each of the color components the relation between the luminance of a neutral color swatch in the scene and the density sensed by the scan system. Several methods for drafting said system curve are described. Furthermore, the way of obtaining the color-corrected image signals by means of a color transformation and the way of determining the transformation are explained.

Abstract: A method is described for selective color correction of an original color image. In one embodiment, a color is selected by picking a colored pixel from the color image and a changed color, having a restricted color change, is associated with the selected color. All original colors, situated within a local color gamut, comprising the selected color, undergo a color modification according to the color change. The effect of the modification decreases as the original color reaches the boundary of the local color gamut. The selected color and changed color may be defined in the native color space, the local color gamut is preferentially defined by an action radius related to a psychometric color space. Two or more selective color corrections may be combined by a weighted mean modification, by choosing for each color change a weight value, which decreases as the selected color is more different from the original color.