Patent Document ID: 9250834
Application ID: 12957869
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method to manage at least one RIPped image having control and/or identification information during job workflow before printing comprising: receiving at least one RIPped image that can be reproduced by a printing engine, wherein the at least one RIPped image comprises an image and data indicating at least one of location, shape, and orientation of objects or components; displaying a print server interface with individual panes showing active, paused, and completed print jobs, wherein the pane showing the active print jobs comprises the received at least one RIPped image; determining if a user through a keyboard or user interface, or by receiving an indication from the print server interface has selected a RIPped image for modification; displaying a modification processing user interface with menus to facilitate user changes to the selected RIPped image; sensing the user changes to the control and/or identification information in the selected RIPped image; performing modification processing based on the user changes to the selected RIPped image by: decomposing with a segmenter the selected RIPped image into individual pages that are then segmented into the components or the objects to extract information contained therein; processing coded symbology and then erasing the processed coded symbology; processing modification of the control and/or identification information in the selected RIPped image and then for each page of the selected RIPped image extracting the control and/or identification information from the selected RIPped image to alter the segments or objects based on the sensed user changes; forming an output bitmap image after modification of the selected RIPped image; wherein the modification comprises adding a security feature, adding tracking information, and voiding an active print job.