Patent ID: 8279457

Claim:
An article of manufacture including code that causes operations to be performed, the operations comprising: generating a user interface to receive user input defining at least one marking setting to control a printer output of markings on a print medium; receiving marking definition code including user input from the user interface defining a first marking setting providing marking definitions to instruct the printer to output a first set of markings on the print medium to control post processing operations on the print medium performed by a first post processor device, the first marking setting comprising a name of the marking setting, a dimension of a marking, a location of the marking on the print medium and a form to which the first marking setting applies; processing the dimension and location of the first defined marking with respect to the form to determine whether the defined marking will be outputted within a boundary of the form; generating an alert in response to determining that the marking will not be outputted within the boundary of the form; and storing the first marking setting with existing marking settings in response to determining that the marking will be outputted within the boundary of the form; wherein the dimension of the marking includes a width and height of the marking and wherein the location of the marking comprises a position of the marking with respect to an edge of the print medium in a first direction with respect to a feed path direction and an offset with respect to the first direction; and wherein the user interface enables the user to set the offset of the mark with respect to a second direction with respect to the feed path direction by indicating one of a plurality of alignment positions on the print medium in the second direction and an offset parameter with respect to the indicated alignment position, wherein the offset with respect to the second direction causes the output of the mark at different locations on print media haying different dimensions with respect to the second direction.