Digital design station procedure
DCFirst Claim
1. A method of producing customized business forms or brochures using a plurality of low resolution graphics templates in electronic form, and a plurality of text templates, using a user station including a video monitor, selection device, and processor, comprising the steps of:
- (a) at the user station, using the selection device to control the processor, selecting one or more low resolution graphics templates in electronic form from the plurality of templates, and displaying graphics corresponding to the graphic templates selected on the video monitor;
(b) using the selection device selecting text related to the graphics selected from the text templates, and displaying the text corresponding to the text template or templates selected on the video monitor with the selected graphics to provide a customized business form or brochure in electronic format;
(c) using the selection device and processor electronically saving the customized business form or brochure in electronic format;
(d) transmitting the saved customized business form or brochure in electronic format to a printing installation without transmitting a document, physical graphics, or templates from the user station; and
(e) at the printing installation imaging a physical copy of the customized business form or brochure in electronic format transmitted in step (d), the customized business form or brochure in physical form having high resolution graphics corresponding to the template graphics selected in step (a).
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Abstract
A customized business form or brochure having high resolution color graphics may be created by an end user without layout experience at a computer terminal at a user site to provide a customized business form or brochure in electronic format. Low resolution graphics templates (as well as textual templates) are provided at the user station to facilitate production of the customized business form and brochure and once the created document in electronic format is saved at the user station it may be electronically or otherwise transmitted to a printing installation without the necessity of transmitting a final document with high resolution color graphics in physical form. At the printing installation a physical copy (e.g. paper copy) of the business form or brochure is imaged (e.g. with a printing press or using ion deposition or other non-impact imaging techniques) with high resolution color graphics. Multiple customized business forms or brochures may be collected from a plurality of user stations and transmitted collectively to the printing installation, and multiple and distinct graphic depictions may be provided on the same document page.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of producing customized business forms or brochures using a plurality of low resolution graphics templates in electronic form, and a plurality of text templates, using a user station including a video monitor, selection device, and processor, comprising the steps of:
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(a) at the user station, using the selection device to control the processor, selecting one or more low resolution graphics templates in electronic form from the plurality of templates, and displaying graphics corresponding to the graphic templates selected on the video monitor; (b) using the selection device selecting text related to the graphics selected from the text templates, and displaying the text corresponding to the text template or templates selected on the video monitor with the selected graphics to provide a customized business form or brochure in electronic format; (c) using the selection device and processor electronically saving the customized business form or brochure in electronic format; (d) transmitting the saved customized business form or brochure in electronic format to a printing installation without transmitting a document, physical graphics, or templates from the user station; and (e) at the printing installation imaging a physical copy of the customized business form or brochure in electronic format transmitted in step (d), the customized business form or brochure in physical form having high resolution graphics corresponding to the template graphics selected in step (a). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of producing customized business forms or brochures using a plurality of low resolution graphics templates in electronic form at a user station including a video monitor, selection device, and processor, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) at the user station, using the selection device to control the processor, selecting one or more low resolution graphics templates in electronic form from the plurality of templates, and displaying graphics corresponding to the graphic templates selected on the video monitor, to provide a customized business form or brochure in electronic format; (b) using the selection device and processor electronically saving the customized business form or brochure in electronic format; (c) electronically transmitting the saved customized business form or brochure in electronic format over phone lines to a printing installation, without transmitting a document, physical graphics, or templates from the user station; and (d) at the printing installation imaging a physical copy of the customized business form or brochure in electronic format transmitted in step (c), the customized business form or brochure in physical form having high resolution color graphics corresponding to the template graphics selected in step (a).
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