Abstract: A printer includes a media storage device, a print engine and a media supply system for supplying print media from the media storage device to the print engine. The printer is arranged to print media-related information onto media that are left over in the media storage device after a print process. The media storage device includes a tray arranged for accommodating cut media sheets and having an auxiliary printer for printing the media-related information onto a sheet in the tray.

Abstract: The invention relates to a printing system for printing a print job on a receiving material with receiving material characteristics according to a print job ticket. The printing system comprises a print engine for providing marking material with marking material characteristics to the receiving material in order to form at least one image defined by the print job and a controller configured to control the print engine and to provide a first estimation of an amount of receiving material needed for a print job based on the print job ticket. A digital outcome storage is configured to store first waste amounts of receiving material during printing errors of print jobs.

Abstract: A printer includes a media storage device, a print engine and a media supply system for supplying print media from the media storage device to the print engine. The printer is arranged to print media-related information onto media that are left over in the media storage device after a print process. The media storage device includes a tray arranged for accommodating cut media sheets and having an auxiliary printer for printing the media-related information onto a sheet in the tray.

Abstract: The invention relates to a printing system for printing a print job on a receiving material with receiving material characteristics according to a print job ticket. The printing system comprises a print engine for providing marking material with marking material characteristics to the receiving material in order to form at least one image defined by the print job and a controller configured to control the print engine and to provide a first estimation of an amount of receiving material needed for a print job based on the print job ticket. A digital outcome storage is configured to store first waste amounts of receiving material during printing errors of print jobs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for predicting consumption of supply material for a plurality of print jobs in a printing system, each print job intended to consume supply material from at least one supply material container from a plurality of supply material containers in the printing system, the method comprising the steps of scheduling the plurality of print jobs in time, scheduling maintenance actions in time, for each supply material container establishing a supply material level in the supply material container before printing the plurality of print jobs, for each supply material container calculating a job consumption of supply material from the supply material container for each scheduled print job, for each supply material container calculating a maintenance consumption of supply material from the supply material container for each scheduled maintenance action, and for each supply material container calculating at which print job the supply material level of the supply material container reaches a

Abstract: A digital image reproduction apparatus includes a receiving device configured to receive a print job including at least one digital data file, a first storing device configured to store the print job, a local user interface enabling an operator to make settings of the print job, a managing device configured to manage settings of the print job, a second storing device configured to store the settings of the print job related to the storage of the print job, and a locking device settable via the user interface and configured to lock at least one setting of the print job to achieve unchangeability of the at least one setting. A method for printing a digital data file on a digital image reproduction apparatus includes locking at least one setting of the digital data file by the operator via the local user interface so as to prevent any inadvertent change thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing documents on an image-forming apparatus, which is able to handle a plurality of settings, each setting settable to any of a number of setting values, the method comprising the steps of defining a first subset of the settings, defining a second subset of the settings, disjunctive from the first subset, for each setting of the first subset setting any of a number of setting values, which are selectable for the setting, for each setting of the second subset leaving the corresponding setting values unset, and for each document to be processed, creating a job for processing the digital document, associating the first and second subset and the setting values of the first subset with the job, interactively setting a setting value for each setting of the second subset, submitting the job with the setting values of the first and second subset to the image-forming apparatus, and processing the document by means of the image-forming apparatus according to the setting valu

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for printing a digital print file using a system comprising a digital network which interconnects a plurality of service units, for example a plurality of printers, and a print file memory.