Patent ID: 7859708

Claim:
A multi-function machine of the type having the capability of scanning, copying and electronically transmitting documents, the machine comprising: a scanning assembly; a printing assembly; a thumbnail generation and arrangement module configured to generate thumbnails corresponding to documents scanned by the scanning assembly, said thumbnail generation and arrangement module further configured to arrange the thumbnails for printing by the printing assembly; and at least one processor configured to sense the completion of a document scanning procedure by the scanning assembly and, prior to or after sensing the completion of the document scanning procedure, to automatically actuate said printing assembly for printing at least a portion of the arranged thumbnails, the thumbnail generation and arrangement module generating at least one annotation, the at least one annotation comprising a message indicating a scanning problem occurred during the document scanning procedure for the document corresponding to at least one generated thumbnail, wherein the at least one generated annotation is at least one of overlaid over the at least one generated thumbnail during printing by the printing assembly and printed in proximity to the at least one generated thumbnail.