Abstract: A method for printing an input image on a substrate comprising the steps of receiving the input image, transferring a marking material representation of the input image onto the substrate and scaling the input image to account for a change in size of the substrate due to printing.

Abstract: In a printing environment a desired document is proofed by superimposing an alignment grid on the desired document and printing the grid and desired document on a receiver to check alignment of on the printed desired document to the receiver and once alignment is acceptable, removing the grid. The desired document or print job may then be printed without the grid.

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.