Printing system for printing a recording medium using two printers, and a method for operating such a printing system

US6501929B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Océ Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Volker Warbus · Oberhaching, DE
• Heinz Bock · Taufkirchen, DE
• Holger Hofmann · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Bernd Hausmann · Olching, DE
• Herbert Gibisch · Hersbruck, DE
• Wolfram Keil · Poing, DE
• Anton Stürzer · Grafing, DE
• Ulrich Bäumler · Poing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 16, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 16, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K2215/0082
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing system for printing on recording media first by a first printer and then by a second printer provides that print data is supplied in a page by page manner to the first and second printers from a print data source. Page information is sent to the printers using the print data and corresponding page information is sent to a buffer storage by the first printer. The page information in the buffer storage and the page information sent to the second printer are verified in a page by page manner by determining adherence to a predetermined rule. A synchronization mark is generated on the recording media by the first printer and is read by the second printer, which is used to control the printing process.