Method and computer program product for in-house digital photo/card processing and printing/cutting production
First Claim
1. A method and computer program product for in-house digital photo processing and printing using standard page-size sheet/roll paper, software program, computer, printer and cutter;
- comprising the steps of;
(a) The software program composes the selected digital photos for printing by placing each photo on the photo page according to the paper size, photo size, number of copies, paper margins and gaps between adjacent photos, and produces one or more photo pages for preview;
(b) For each photo page, each photo is processed automatically by resize, crop image processing functions;
(c) Printing each photo page by keeping the left margin equals to the right margin, and the top margin equals to the bottom margin;
(d) Printing each photo by extending four edges of the photo to include over-print.
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Abstract
The invention provides a method, apparatus, a computer-implemented process, systems and program products for in-house digital photo printing and digital color reproduction. The present invention allows a user to print digital photos, business cards, name cards, ID cards, post cards etc. in-house by using standard page-size or custom-size sheets of paper, in sheets or rolls, with software program product, computer, printer, and cutter. Users prepare the digital photos or a card design. Depending on the size of the photo or card required, the program product automatically generate page-size or custom-size sheet layout so that each photo sheet printed with multiple photos or multiple impressions of the card design, will minimize the paper waist and when individual photos or cards are cut from the photo sheet, they will end up a full-bleed and 100% clean edge photos or cards. A fully integrated system that is small and flexible to be used anywhere, can be implemented that use this invention to integrate the printer and cutter in one machine with a micro processor to run the software program.
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15 Claims
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1. A method and computer program product for in-house digital photo processing and printing using standard page-size sheet/roll paper, software program, computer, printer and cutter;
- comprising the steps of;
(a) The software program composes the selected digital photos for printing by placing each photo on the photo page according to the paper size, photo size, number of copies, paper margins and gaps between adjacent photos, and produces one or more photo pages for preview;
(b) For each photo page, each photo is processed automatically by resize, crop image processing functions;
(c) Printing each photo page by keeping the left margin equals to the right margin, and the top margin equals to the bottom margin;
(d) Printing each photo by extending four edges of the photo to include over-print. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 15)
- comprising the steps of;
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6. A method and computer program product for in-house photo card, business card processing and printing using standard page-size sheet/roll paper, software program, computer, printer and cutter;
- comprising the steps of;
(a) The software program replicates the card as multiple instances of one image and places all the instances on one photo page for preview, according to the paper size and business/photo card size;
(b) The business/photo card is processed automatically by resize, crop image processing functions, then producing instances of the business/photo card according to the number of cards needed;
(c) Printing each photo page by keeping the left margin equals to the right margin, and the top margin equals to the bottom margin;
(d) Printing each business/photo card by extendng four edges of the card to include over-print;
(e) Repeat step (a) for the back side processing and printing. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
- comprising the steps of;
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11. A computer station, program product, printer and cutter for in-house digital photo, ID photo, photo card, business/name card and post card processing and printing using standard page-size or customize-size sheet/roll paper, comprising the steps of:
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(a) At a computer station running the program product, user selects the digital image(s) stored on the removable media such as Smart Media, Compact Disk, Flash Memory etc., or on hard disk;
(b) The program product composes or replicates the selected digital image(s) for printing by placing each image on the photo page according to the paper size, image size, number of copies, paper margins and gaps between adjacent images, and produces one or more photo pages for user to preview;
user may adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness of each image placed on the photo page;
(c) The program product prints each photo page by keeping the left margin equals to the right margin, and the top margin equals to the bottom margin, and extends four edges of the card to include over-print;
(d) User repeats the step (a), (b) and (c) if the photo card, business/name card, post card need processing and printing on the back side of each card;
(e) The printing device produces each photo page, and cutting device further divides the photo page to the finished size of photos, photo cards, business/name cards and post cards by cutting. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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