Patent ID: 8605323

Claim:
A method of automatically imposing pages of a print job for printing using a processing circuit and a storage device storing the print job, the method comprising: imposing pages of a first document of the iob, sheet wherein: the job includes multiple personalized documents; each document of the multiple personalized documents includes a plurality of pages; at least a part of information to be printed is different for each document; the plurality of pages of each document includes at least one page having dimensions different from an other page in the plurality of pages; each document is imposed on a single sheet on which no other document is imposed; the single sheet corresponds to one unit of print media as the print media is to be delivered to a printer; the imposition of each document includes at least one layout; a layout consists of a group of pages having the same size and orientation; and a layer is a row or column of pages on the same single sheet; the imposing step including: imposing pages of the first document on a first sheet by: i) selecting a first layout having the highest dimension; ii) creating a first new layer with first pages of the first layout by lining up pages of equal dimensions of the same document of the multiple documents in the layer across the first sheet wherein the pages in the layer have their edges approximately on or parallel to a cut line to be formed along the layer and across the first sheet; iii) if all of the first pages of the first layout do not fit in the first new layer, creating additional new layers for the first layout until all of the first pages of the first layout are fit into one of the created layers; and iv) repeating the imposition for a next layout having the next highest dimension until all layouts for the first document have been imposed; and imposing pages of a next document on a next new sheet by repeating steps i) through iv), until all of the documents of the job have been imposed.