Patent ID: 8724162

Claim:
A method for modifying operations in an image forming device, comprising: obtaining, by a processor, an indication of a separately-specified origin to be used for an imaging operation in an image forming device, the separately-specified origin being a different origin than that which is programmed into the image forming device; identifying a positioning of an input image sheet on a platen of the image forming device relative to the separately-specified origin by using selectable platen sheet rulers; receiving input image data according to the separately-specified origin based on the positioning of the input image sheet relative to the selectable platen sheet rulers; directing processing of the input image data to produce an output image from the image forming device, the image forming device outputting a result of the processing; identifying a transformation operation for converting a first coordinate system in which the input image data is received based on the separately-specified origin to a second coordinate system used by hardware components in the image forming device for the imaging operation; applying, with the processor, the identified transformation operation to the input image data to transform the input image data in the first coordinate system to image data in the second coordinate system, the directing of the processing of the input image data comprising directing processing of the image data in the second coordinate system for the imaging operation in the image forming device; presenting to a user a visual graphical display identifying a current origin for the imaging operation in the image forming device; and obtaining the indication of the separately-specified origin for the imaging operation based on user interaction with the visual graphic display by which the user identifies the separately-specified origin, the selectable platen sheet rulers comprising at least one dynamically-adaptable display device for displaying (1) a visual rendering of the separately-specified origin for the imaging operation at a corner of the platen and (2) a visual rendering of a ruler along at least one edge of the platen.