Xerox Corporation

Alexandra D Ruegg

Richard Thomas Horn

James R Low

Peter Stanley Fisher

Vazrik Israelian

Alex C Chen

John P Parsons

Lily A Ray

Louis Sinn

Ojeni P Sammis

Kenneth Wang

Mike L Justice

Daniel Vega

A method and apparatus of printing books based on digital data, comprises accepting a plurality of orders, each order including a request for at least one copy of each of a plurality of titles. The plurality of orders form a streamlined cover set. The streamlined cover set is scanned, the detecting of each cover in the cover set causing digital printing of a book block corresponding to the detected title associated with the cover.

Advanced cover-driven workflow for a printshop

A hybrid document automation system manages a hybrid printing job, such as PostScript (PS) job with a mix of color and monochrome (B/W) sheets containing variable data. The print job may contain any number of sets, each differing in size and ratio of color and B/W sheets. The system includes a color printer, a monochrome printer, a print manager, a splitter for separating color pages from monochrome pages in the print job and automatic jam recovery. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be provided to give a user/operator information on the status of the print job. The system may also include a document integrity system for insuring the correct output of the merged color and monochrome pages.

Hybrid document automation system

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La Crescenta, CA, United States of America

Alexandra D Ruegg