Patent ID: 6501485
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: B41J,G03G,G06K,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
In a multifunctional printing system including a printing machine for producing prints from an electronic document stored therewith, the printing machine including a user interface with a display screen upon which one or more of a plurality of messages can be displayed for providing a user, at a customer use site, with status information about the printing system, a programmable message storage system for storing the plurality of messages, comprising:a configurable database for listing a plurality of message identifiers, the plurality of message identifiers corresponding respectively with the plurality of messages; a plurality of code sets corresponding respectively with the plurality of message identifiers, each code set controlling a manner in which a corresponding message is displayed on the display screen; and at least one of the plurality of code sets being user programmable so that, in response to user input, the at least one of the plurality of code sets is reconfigured in the database for changing the manner in which the message corresponding with the at least one of the plurality of codes sets is displayed as a function of said reconfiguring.