SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING PRINTING PRESS WORKLOAD

• US 20120008167A1
• Filed: 07/11/2011
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrew S. Field
• Original Assignee: Andrew S. Field
• Inventors: Field, Andrew S.
• Application Number:
  US13/180,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20120008167A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: B41F 33/16 Programming systems for automatic control of sequence of operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1214 at the submitting node
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1245 by conversion to intermediate or common format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1263 based on job priority, e.g. re-arranging the order of jobs, e.g. the printing sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1275 Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

A system and method is provided for ganging print orders to be printed on a press based on a set of print attributes, wherein associated digital files of the print orders are ganged together in one file location to generate a gang ticket in a database for the ganged print order, and displaying the gang ticket.

Claims

1. A method of handling press workload, comprising:

receiving a plurality of print orders, each having a set of print attributes and an associated digital file;

ganging the print orders based on the set of print attributes;

automatically collecting the digital files for the ganged print orders together in one file location; and

generating a gang ticket in a database for the ganged print orders and displaying the gang ticket.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the gang ticket includes different file formats.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the gang ticket includes different file characteristics.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of print attributes include total quantity of the print orders, incremental quantities of component parts of the print orders, required turn around time, and/or estimated print completion time.

5. A method of handling press workload, comprising:

receiving a print order which has a set of print attributes and an associated digital file;

assigning the print order to a gang to be printed on a press based on the set of print attributes;

automatically collecting the digital file of the print order together with corresponding digital files of the gang in one file location; and

generating a gang ticket in a database for the ganged print order and displaying the gang ticket.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the gang ticket includes different file formats.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the gang ticket includes different file characteristics.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the set of print attributes include total quantity of the print order, incremental quantities of component parts of the print order, required turn around time, and/or estimated print completion time.

9. A system for handling press workload, comprising:

a print order receiving module that receives a plurality of print orders, each having a set of print attributes and an associated digital file;

means for ganging the print orders based on the set of print attributes; and

means for automatically collecting the digital files for the ganged print orders together in one file location, generating a gang ticket in a database for the ganged print orders, and displaying the gang ticket.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the gang ticket includes different file formats.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the gang ticket includes different file characteristics.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the set of print attributes include total quantity of the print orders, incremental quantities of component parts of the print orders, required turn around time, and/or estimated print completion time.

13. A system for handling press workload, comprising:

a print order receiving module that receives a print order which has a set of print attributes and an associated digital file;

means for ganging the print order to be printed on a press based on the set of print attributes;

means for automatically collecting the digital file of the print order together with corresponding digital files of the gang in one file location, generating a gang ticket in a database for the ganged print order, and displaying the gang ticket.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the gang ticket includes different product formats.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the gang ticket includes different product characteristics.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the set of print attributes include total quantity of the print order, incremental quantities of component parts of the print order, required turn around time, and/or estimated print completion time.