Abstract: A method for customizing a printed document. The method includes determining the scent application capabilities of a finishing system. If the finishing system can produce a scent, the next step is to determine whether to apply a scent to the document based at least in part upon information associated with the intended recipient of the document. The document is then printed and a scent is applied to the document if it is determined that a scent should be applied to the document. Adding variable scents to variable documents can help increase the power of targeted advertising.

Abstract: One exemplary method embodiment herein can run an operating system on a processor and executes one or more applications on the operating system (sometimes simultaneously) that causes different input requests to be dynamically displayed on a visual display. If more than one application is being executed at a time, only one currently selected application can be available for user input at a time. These input requests can dynamically change depending upon the current state of the currently selected application. The method controls the keys with the operating system to dynamically illuminate only valid keys that correspond to input requests of the currently selected application being currently displayed on the visual display.

Abstract: A printing system includes a bypass path that transports printing media around a marking system such that the printing media can avoid the marking system and not be affected by the marking system. A memory device associates “non-printing media route information” with one or more corresponding storage units when printing media that should avoid the marking system is loaded into the one or more corresponding storage units. The non-printing media that should avoid the marking system may damage the marking system and/or may be damaged by the marking system. Therefore, the controller prevents printing instructions from being executed that direct the printing media into the marking system from one or more of the storage units with which the non-printing media route information is associated in the memory device.