Abstract: An image-forming system with a graphic user interface having an interconnection architecture where software applications share one or more plug-in packages. One of the software applications may be used as a plug-in.

Abstract: A computer program operates a printer to insert tabs into a multipage document. The physical tabs are stored in one of printer's insert bins. A graphical user display shows a bank of tabs in a layout table. A tab is activated by specifying a page for the tab. Text and graphics may be entered on the tab or selected from templates for labels and style. A layout template stores data on the layout of one or more standard banks of tabs. The computer program automatically balances the number to tabs and automatically deletes unused blocks of tabs.

Abstract: A printing machine has a computer program for aligning pages in a book and printing the book. A user scans pages of a book into a controller or computer where the pages are converted into a file that is independent of the platform that created the documents such as portable document formatted (PDF) pages. Each PDF page comprises content areas of text or graphics or both and non-content areas surrounding the content areas. The program does not remove the non-content area for any placement purposes and temporarily crops the page to determine the size (and position) of the content area. During automatic alignment, the program operates on the files to temporarily crop or remove peripheral, non-content areas and generate cropped PDF pages of the content areas on the pages of the book. The cropped PDF files include one image although it may encompass text and graphics. The program may operate in automatic or manual mode.

Abstract: A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including job origination, job preparation, job submission and job fulfillment. The workflow management software provides an integrated object oriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow. The software further provides functionality for efficient page level modifications to documents at the job preparation stage. This functionality allows such modifications to be easily made to selected pages, shared among different documents, and collected into standardized libraries.

Abstract: A flexible process for printing content on designated pages wherein, content is placed on designated pages of a document by the inclusion of a flag, tag, marker or variable early in the workflow process to indicate those pages are going to contain a specific content type. The invention provides information to place content on pages early in the production workflow process by placement of flags, tags, markers or variables in the form of computer readable indicia that can readily be identified by a program module to perform the late binding of the content late in the printing stage.

Abstract: A computer program operates a printer to insert tabs into a multipage document. The physical tabs are stored in one of printer's insert bins. A graphical user display shows a bank of tabs in a layout table. A tab is activated by specifying a page for the tab. Text and graphics may be entered on the tab or selected from templates for labels and style. A layout template stores data on the layout of one or more standard banks of tabs. The computer program automatically balances the number to tabs and automatically deletes unused blocks of tabs.

Abstract: A printing machine has a computer program for aligning pages in a book and printing the book. A user scans pages of a book into a controller or computer where the pages are converted into a file that is independent of the platform that created the documents such as portable document formatted (PDF) pages. Each PDF page comprises content areas of text or graphics or both and non-content areas surrounding the content areas. The program does not remove the non-content area for any placement purposes and temporarily crops the page to determine the size (and position) of the content area. During automatic alignment, the program operates on the files to temporarily crop or remove peripheral, non-content areas and generate cropped PDF pages of the content areas on the pages of the book. The cropped PDF files include one image although it may encompass text and graphics. The program may operate in automatic or manual mode.

Abstract: A print shop environment including multiple printers (122HV, 122C) under the control of computer resources (116, 118, 120) to automatically print complex documents is disclosed. According to the disclosed embodiment, a companion plug-in application operates in combination with an authoring application, to permit a human operator to select certain special pages, such as those to be printed by a color printer (122C). These pages are assigned to a media type that is not valid at a high-volume printer (122HV), causing an invalid job configuration for that page. The special pages are printed at the color printer (122C), and that output is loaded into an inserter (135) in the high-volume printer (122HV). The main job is modified to interpret each of the invalid job configuration pages to insert commands, so that the special pages can be inserted by the inserter (135) at the correct location in the output job, when printed by the high-volume printer (122HV).

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, there is a system for processing at least one page of at least one document. The system comprises at least one input interface and at least one document production system. The input interface is operatively connected to the document production system. The input interface transmits at least one page of at least one document to the document production system. The at least one document production system utilizes a program to assign at least one indicator to the at least one page of the at least one document. In a response to the at least one indicator, the at least one document production system separates the at least one page of the at least one document from other pages of the at least one document.

Abstract: An image-forming system with a graphic user interface having an interconnection architecture where software applications share one or more plug-in packages. One of the software applications may be used as a plug-in.

Abstract: An image-forming system has a graphic user interface with a companion application window that displays windows from various applications implementing functionalities on the image-forming machine. The companion application window shows the windows from multiple applications as essentially one application or window on the graphic user interface.

Abstract: An image-forming system has a graphic user interface (GUI) responsive to an image-forming management functionality and a document or image viewing functionality, which provide a page level print option representation of a print job. The print option representation includes one or more graphical images of page options selected or assigned to each page in a print job. The graphical images include icon and/or thumbnail images showing the selected or assigned page options.

Abstract: An image-forming system has a graphic user interface (GUI) responsive to an image-forming management functionality and a document or image viewing functionality, which provide a page level print option representation of a print job. The print option representation includes one or more graphical images of page options selected or assigned to each page in a print job. The graphical images include icon and/or thumbnail images showing the selected or assigned page options.

Abstract: Information associated with a table of tabs is scanned into the memory of the job preparation station. Responsive to the information associated with the table of tabs, the job preparation station is able to modify this information. In one aspect, there is a method for modifying at least one document in a printing machine having a display device. The printing machine is able to determine a location of at least one marker on the at least one document. The printing machine is able to display the location of the at least one marker on the display device. The printing machine is also able to modify the at least one marker. At least one modified document is generated in response to the modified at least one marker.

Abstract: To allow for the flexibility of printing the tab contents on any one of the tab pages of an ordered tab set, a flag or marker indicating that a page contains a tab plus the information that needs to be rendered on the tab inside the PDF page is stored in memory. This enables the user to move this page around in the document or even copy it to a different document without losing this information. Once the document containing such pages is to be printed, a print output module goes through the PDF document and produces the tabs in the correct locations on the tab pages.