Patent ID: 11890775
Assignee: TILIA LABS INC.
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method of industrial print job imposition that employs cutters and media comprising:
receiving a print order including a requisite number of print products; receiving a specification of available equipment, the specification including
characteristics of available cutters associated with the print products in the print order and characteristics of available printing apparatus;
generating a plurality of planning schemes, each planning scheme combining a printing apparatus and a cutter from the specification of available equipment;
ranking the plurality of planning schemes based on a predicted efficiency based on the specification of available equipment and respective printing apparatus and cutters, wherein said ranking is based on a predicted time expenditure based on data included in the specification of available equipment;
selecting at least one of the plurality of planning schemes, and generating for the selected planning scheme a plurality of imposition schemes that each include a packing alignment of the requisite number of print products to an exemplar media sheet, each of the plurality of imposition schemes including media subdivisions plotted out to the exemplar media sheet, and
ranking the plurality of imposition schemes based on a predicted efficiency based on the specification of available equipment and the respective packing alignment.