Patent ID: 7454263

Claim:
A method for operating a graphics machine using a computer, comprising the steps of: storing data relating to at least one graphic job; operating the computer as a control device to setup the graphics machine, the graphics machine being a printing press, as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job; further operating the computer as the control device to determine properties of the at least one graphic job, as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job, for control of the graphics machine; computing further data necessary to process the at least one graphic job as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job and subsequently automatically processing the at least one graphic job; and operating the computer as the control device to determine resetting operations between the at least one graphic job and a subsequent graphic job while the at least one graphic job is still being processed by comparing the settings of the printing press required for the still running print job with the settings required for the subsequent graphic job computed from the job data and automatically controlling the determined resetting operations for the subsequent graphic job.