Flexible label printing assembly
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1. A high-speed customer fulfillment, product production line comprising:
- a high-speed packaging customizer comprising;
a rendering device operative to produce customized product packaging components;
a rendering device compatible electronic image storage system operative to store custom product package image information in a form that is most compatible with the rendering device, and a rendering controller operative to select particular custom product image information from the rendering device compatible electronic storage system, based on information delivered from at least one external source, and deliver the selected custom product image information to the rendering device.
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Abstract
A high-speed customized product packaging line is enhanced with the inclusion of a high-speed packaging component customizer. The customizer includes a rendering device and a rendering device-compatible rendering information storage device. Rendering information is delivered to the rendering device from the rendering information storage device without additional processing, such as a decompression or image rasterization. Therefore, a production is not delayed due to customizer setup or change over. This enables short custom packaging runs. Methods of producing and distributing products made practical by the production line are also disclosed.
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1. A high-speed customer fulfillment, product production line comprising:
a high-speed packaging customizer comprising;
a rendering device operative to produce customized product packaging components;
a rendering device compatible electronic image storage system operative to store custom product package image information in a form that is most compatible with the rendering device, and a rendering controller operative to select particular custom product image information from the rendering device compatible electronic storage system, based on information delivered from at least one external source, and deliver the selected custom product image information to the rendering device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A high-speed method for producing products in response to the receipt of an order, the method comprising:
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creating a set of customized product packages in a sequence as indicated by the order;
filling the packages in sequence as indicated by the order;
assembling a shipment corresponding to the order as the sequence of filled product packages is output from a production line. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A packaging line comprising:
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a supervisory device operative to select a custom product package production sequence based on an order and to send control information to packaging line components to produce custom product packages in the selected sequence;
a packaging component supply operative to provide package blanks;
a packaging customizer operative to receive package blanks from the packaging component supply and to produce customized product packages, the packaging customizer comprising;
a rendering device operative to customize packaging components based on received rendering information;
a rendering device compatible, electronic data storage system operative to store custom product package rendering information in a form, that is most compatible with the rendering device, and a rendering controller operative to select particular custom product rendering information from the rendering device compatible, electronic storage system, based on the selected sequence received from the supervisory system, and to deliver the selected custom product rendering information to the rendering device. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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