Job comment/operator messages for an electronic reprographic printing system

US5130806A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey G. Reed · Pittsford, US
• Patricia A. Prokop · Webster, US
• Nancy K. M. Rees · Farmington, US
• Ernie L. Legg · Fairport, US
• Thomas Zell · Dresden, DE
• Paul A. Rulli · Webster, US
• Elizabeth A. Bennett · Penfield, US
• Harriet Carter · Fairport, US
• Randy Hube · Rochester, US
• Paul J. Valliere · Fairport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 1990
• Grant date: Jul 14, 1992
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N2201/3278
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic reprographic printing system that allows the sending of messages with a print job from remote user workstations to a central reprographic printing machine. The messages can be displayed on a User Interface, such as a video monitor, and additionally printed on a break page of the print job. Also disclosed is a system for sending messages that is capable of faulting a print job until the reprographic system operator acknowledges receipt of the message. The various messages can instruct the system operator to use a particular medium for the print job, for example, or instruct the system operator how to finish (bind, wrap, etc.) a print job.