Patent ID: 8456690

Claim:
A method of automatically placing a plurality (N-up) of selected images in computer document language for imposition on a print media sheet in pre-press operations for a printer comprising: (a) automatically locating and storing boundary coordinates of the sheet; (b) selecting a plurality (N-up) of the images to be imposed on the sheet in N-up sheet cells; (c) automatically determining and storing boundary coordinates of the N-up sheet cells of the sheet; (d) automatically locating and storing coordinates of various nested image boundaries included in each image; (e) establishing and storing a set of alignment rules; (f) inputting a user selection from the stored alignment rules; g) selecting one of the nested image boundaries for each image and determining and storing the coordinates of the selected boundary; (h) automatically comparing the stored boundary coordinates of a corresponding one of the N-up sheet cells and the selected nested image boundary and shifting the selected nested image boundary to a position determined by the selected alignment rules with respect to an outer one of the nested image boundaries for each selected image; and, (i) locating the outer one of the nested image boundaries on the sheet cell for each selected image and imposing the N-up images on the sheet for digital printing.