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Patent US7382486 - Printing system - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsProvided is a printing system capable of printing, when one or more pages are replaced after raster image processing (RIP), by performing RIP of only the page(s) to be replaced. A job ticket is issued from a printing apparatus. In a printing data creating apparatus, information of page data for replacement...http://www.google.com/patents/US7382486?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7382486 - Printing systemAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7382486 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 10/615,377Publication dateJun 3, 2008Filing dateJul 9, 2003Priority dateAug 21, 2002Fee statusPaidAlso published asDE10335124A1, DE10335124B4, US20040036916Publication number10615377, 615377, US 7382486 B2, US 7382486B2, US-B2-7382486, US7382486 B2, US7382486B2InventorsKatsuya YamaguchiOriginal AssigneeDainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (5), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (1), Classifications (17), Legal Events (2) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetPrinting systemUS 7382486 B2Abstract Provided is a printing system capable of printing, when one or more pages are replaced after raster image processing (RIP), by performing RIP of only the page(s) to be replaced. A job ticket is issued from a printing apparatus. In a printing data creating apparatus, information of page data for replacement is added to the content of the job ticket and then sent to the printing apparatus together with the page data for replacement. In the printing apparatus, only the received page data for replacement is subjected to RIP, and then printing after replacement processing is executed in accordance with the job ticket. It is unnecessary to perform again RIP of printing data irrelevant to the replacement. This increases the efficiency of processing and also lowers the cost.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a technique of improving the efficiency of processing when a printed matter consisting of a plurality of pages is obtained in a printing system.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a printing system according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention;
The page layout part 4 is provided to perform layout processing of object data corresponding to individual components constituting a printed matter (e.g., character, photograph and line art), while displaying the editorial state of the printed matter page by page on the display part 24. Examples of this processing are the arrangement of a character manuscript, setting of font and paragraph, magnification/reduction and color correction of a photographic manuscript, and line art drawing. A printed matter can be laid out by locating a variety of objects stored in the storage part 22 at a desired position by drag and drop with the use of the mouse 23 a or directly creating or inputting data with the use of the mouse 23 a or keyboard 23 b. It is noted that a printed data does not always contain in its description itself the content of an object. In some cases, a printing data is described as a combination of (i) a layout information such as the arrangement position (coordinate), size (width and height), and attitude (angle) of each object subjected to a layout on a page under layout processing, (ii) an association information that associates the file name and storage location of each object data with the printing data, and (iii) a page arrangement information related to the arrangement of each page. In this case, a set of the printing data as such and the object data subjected to the layout is transferred to the printing apparatus 3, as data necessary for printing (printing data). In the present description of the invention, including the above-mentioned case, a set of printing data that is transferred from the printing data creating apparatus 2 to the printing apparatus 3 in order to execute printing is referred to as a �job data,� and a printing processing executed for a single job data is referred to as a �job.�
After executing the desired various page arrangement processing to the job data, as described above, the operator clicks on �FixJob� button B2 on execution window W, thereby determining the page arrangement processings executed until then. If a processing object is a job data not subjected to RIP, the temporary data for edition at that point becomes a fresh page arrangement information, and the job data is rewritten depending on the type of processing and then stored in the storage part 22 or RAM 21 c. In the page replacement processing, information corresponding to the content of a page to be replaced in a job data is replaced with information related to a page data used for replacement. In the page replacement processing, layout information related to the corresponding page and association information are added to a job data. In the page deletion processing, layout information related to the corresponding page and association information are deleted. Further, in accordance with a predetermined instruction that the operator designates through the operation part 23, the job data is stored, for example, as data of PDF in the storage part 22 or RAM 21 c, alternatively, further transferred to the printing apparatus 3.
On the other hand, the replacement processing of a job data after being subjected to RIP is not the processing of the job data itself. Therefore, instead of the rewriting of the job data, an additional description of a job ticket is performed in a job ticket update part 62 by clicking on �FixJob� button B2, which will be described hereinafter.
The job registration part 7 performs processing of preserving a job data in the storage part 32, the job data being created in the printing data creating apparatus 2 and then provided by reading via the network N or from a storage medium (not shown). In this processing, the job registration part 7 functions to create job folders JF corresponding to respective job data in the storage part 32 and to store these job data therein. Job data after being subjected to RIP (rasterize-processed job data, hereinafter referred to as �RIP-processed job data�) are also stored in their respective job folders JF. In addition, the job ticket that has been sent from the printing data creating apparatus 2 when executing page replacement processing of the RIP-processed data, and page data for replacement are also stored in job folders JF.
In job ticket JT1 of FIG. 4A, records R1 through R4 are records indicating the contents of job data. That is, record R1 indicates that the object job name of the job ticket is �JOB1�; record R2 indicates that the job data executed in �JOB1� is data of 20 pages; record R3 indicates that the sheet direction set in �JOB1� is portrait orientation; and record R4 indicates that the size of a sheet as a printing object is �A4�. On the other hand, records R5 through R7 are records indicating the settings used in the above job. That is, record R5 indicates that printing is executed immediately after receiving job ticket JT1; record R6 indicates that the number of printed matter to be printed is ten; and record R7 indicates that the feeding tray used in printing is a second tray (i.e., the second feeding part 37 a).
After the content of job ticket JT1 is read in, the job ticket processing part 6 analyzes the descriptions of respective records of job ticket JT1. In the case of job ticket JT1 shown in FIG. 4A, the descriptions of the seven records R1 through R7 are analyzed to obtain information necessary for the page arrangement processing. First, the job name �JOB1� described in record R1 is captured. In response to this, the thumbnail processing part 57 immediately requests the printing apparatus 3 to send a thumbnail image of job data corresponding to job name �JOB1� (step S4). Note that the job name does not necessarily agree with the file name of job data. On the accept of the request of thumbnail image, the printing apparatus 3 creates a thumbnail image from the job data and then sends it to the printing data creating apparatus 2 (step S5). On the receipt of this thumbnail image, the printing data creating apparatus 2 functions to display it on the display part 24, so that the page replacement processing is executable (step S6).
Referring now to FIG. 6, as a result that the thumbnail processing part 57 requests the printing apparatus 3 to send a thumbnail image corresponding to job name referred to as �JOB1�, thumbnail images SN1 of page 16 to page 20 of the job data is displayed in display area AR1, the file name of the job data, �manual 1.pdf�, is described in file name column FN1. Thumbnail images SN2 of page data which are page replacement candidates (page insertion candidates), are displayed in display area AR2 on the left side of display area AR1. The file names of the page data �newname.pdf� and �manual2.pdf� are described in file name columns FN2 and FN3, respectively. The page data in display area AR2 can be added by clicking on �Insertion page selection� button B4 with the mouse 23 a, followed by a predetermined operation.
It is assumed that page 20 of job data referred to as �manual1.pdf� is replaced with a new page. FIG. 6 illustrates the state that thumbnail image SN1 a corresponding to page 20 is selected and the page number is displayed in inverse video. FIG. 7A shows this page in enlarged dimension, as page P1. It is also assumed that page data referred to as �newname.pdf� is a replacement candidate file. FIG. 6 illustrates the state that thumbnail image SN2 a of �newname.pdf� is selected and its page number and file name are displayed in inverse video. FIG. 7B shows this page displayed in enlarged dimension, as page P2.
When the operator selects the pages before and after replacement with the mouse 23 a referring to FIG. 6, followed by a double click, thumbnail image SN1 a of page 20 in the job data �manual1.pdf� is replaced with the page data (page 1) in �newname.pdf�.
However, the above-mentioned processing is to virtually change page arrangement by temporarily storing in the RAM 21 c the content of the job data to be obtained by this processing as a temporary data for edition, and not to change the content of the job data itself. After the termination of the desired replacement processing and the confirmation of having no trouble about the result of the processing, the operator clicks on �FixJob� button B2 with the mouse 23 a, so that the content of the replacement processing is determinated (step S7).
When �FixJob� button B2 is clicked, the job ticket update part 62 creates job ticket JT2 describing the content of the job after the replacement processing, on the basis of job ticket JT1 before replacement processing and the temporary data for edition. FIG. 4B shows job ticket JT2 describing the above replacement processing on the basis of job ticket JT1 shown in FIG. 4A. Job ticket JT2 shown in FIG. 4B consists of eleven records R11 through R21. Records R11 through R17 have the same description as job ticket JT1, and four records R18 through R21 correspond to the contents added in the job ticket update part 62. That is, these four records provide the printing apparatus 3 with the following information that page 20 should be replaced with the page data referred to as �newname.pdf�, that the application used for replacement is �differential edition plug-in� (the name of the program 22 b implementing the replacement processing), and that the latest editorial date is 8:40 a.m. on Aug. 12, 2002. By describing �the latest editorial date� as record R21, if a plurality of job tickets are issued, the latest job ticket can be referred to for printing.
In the case that the data format of the page data for replacement is different from the data format of the original job data, for example, when the original job data is of PDF and the page data for replacement is of EPS (encapsulated postscript) format, the page data for replacement is transformed to the same data format as the original job data, by clicking on �FixJob� button B2 and, alternatively, with subsequent predetermined operation.
On the completion of the update of the job ticket, job ticket JT2 and the page data for replacement �newname.pdf� are transferred to the printing apparatus 3 (step S8). On the receipt of these data, the printing apparatus 3 functions to store these data together in job folder JF preserving the corresponding job data. By doing so, in the next printing, the job is to be executed by referring to the stored job ticket JT2, in other words, the job is re-registered (step S9).
Page data �newname.pdf� freshly preserved in job folder JF is then subjected to RIP (step S10). This enables the execution of a job subsequent to the replacement, i.e., printing processing (step S11). When the operator provides an instruction of the execution of printing, the printing apparatus 3 executes a job referred to as �JOB1� on the basis of job ticket JT2. Specifically, the printing apparatus 3 prints page 1 through page 19 in job data referred to as �manual1.pdf� on the basis of the rasterize-processed job data stored in the storage part 32, and page 20 on the basis of the job data obtained by subjecting �newname.pdf� to REP in step S10, thereby obtaining 10 copies of a printed matter consisting of 20 pages that are of A4 size and portrait orientation.
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