Patent ID: 8014005

Claim:
A method for using an imaging apparatus having a printing unit and an incising unit to generate a plurality of image panels for assembly as a poster for displaying an image represented by image data, said image data being divided into a plurality of image data portions representing a corresponding plurality of image portions of said image, said method comprising: determining an individual two-dimensional image boundary for each of said plurality of image data portions; associating a corresponding two-dimensional incising boundary with each said individual image boundary, wherein at least a portion of each said individual image boundary is coincident with said corresponding incising boundary; printing an image portion of said plurality of image portions at a location on a sheet of media with said printing unit in accordance with said individual image boundary of an image data portion that corresponds to said image portion; incising by use of one of a perforation device and a cutting device in said incising unit said sheet of media with said incising unit along said corresponding incising boundary that is associated with said individual image boundary of said image data portion to form an individual image panel of said plurality of image panels; and repeating said printing and said incising until all of said plurality of image data portions are processed to form said plurality of image panels.