Patent ID: 9298404
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for manufacturing printed page products, comprising: defining, by a computer system, a plurality of subbatches each comprising one or more pages each associated with a layout to be printed by a printing device; storing a predetermined natural number M that is associated with the maximum number of sheets to be fed in a stack to the printing device; assigning, by the computer system, the plurality of subbatches to N groups while keeping the pages in each of the N groups no more than M pages, wherein N is a natural number; arranging the plurality of subbatches among the N groups to minimize the difference between the total number of pages in the N groups and M×N; receiving a stack of sheets by a printing device; and printing the layouts for the one or more pages in the plurality of subbatches in the stack of sheets, wherein pages from the N groups are respectively positioned in N columns in the stack of sheets.