System and method for archiving digital versions of documents and for generating quality printed documents therefrom
US5754308A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 27, 1995 |
| Grant date | May 19, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 27, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N2201/3277
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An inventive page encoding, printing, retrieval and archiving system and method wherein document information designators are encoded for pages. The designator includes information regarding the location of the digital representation of the page and optionally includes page generation and reproduction information. An enhanced copier or facsimile machine scans the printed designator and retrieves the stored digital representation of the page and outputs a "subsequent original" of the page. In the alternative, when the copier cannot directly access the digital representation of the page, the enhanced copier can decode the page generation and reproduction information found in the designator and apply the information to production of a high quality photocopy. The inventive equipment is additionally adapted to create digital representations of pages, create designators for the digital representations, store the digital representations along with the designators, and output printed versions of the pages including the designators.
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