Vistaprint Technologies Limited

Cimpress Schweiz Gmbh

Vistaprint Schweiz Gmbh

Anatoliy V Tsykora

Jay T Moody

Jacob A Hyman

Alexander K Schowtka

William K Doggett

Vyacheslav Nykyforov

Daniel R Malone

Eliza H Royal

Vikramaditya Khemka

Guido Keller

Eric Walker

Jonathan H Chen

David Greenberg

Ciaran Daly

Marinus H Van Rooij

Anna Maria Ayuso

Harrison Paine

Johan Roelof Wiersema

Systems and methods for placing visual content on a virtual surface for customizing a physical product are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may, in conjunction with enabling a user to customize a product design, access and identify certain parameters associated with certain page boxes of the electronic document. The electronic device may calculate a set of differences between certain aspect ratios associated with the page boxes, and accordingly modify certain parameters of the page boxes. The resulting page box modifications may mitigate certain errors associated with production of the product.

Technologies for positioning designs on virtual surfaces associated with product customization

Take-off strips are adaptively generated based on the color profile of the image to be printed to smooth ink consumption and present a more constant ink coverage and ink flow. Adaptive take-off strips have complementary color profiles to the image being printed.

Adaptive take-off strips for smoothing ink consumption

Techniques for generated variable density mono-color under-print layer(s) for printing underneath an image on a substrate to improve the appearance of the printed image.

System and method for printing using variable-density white ink under-printed layer

A flexible and scalable file format conversion system is capable of supporting a number of contemporaneous conversion requests. For each file, a conversion request entry and one or more related conversion task entries are maintained in FIFO queues under the control of a distribution manager program. Conversion operations are handled by application programs under the control of associated graphical processor programs. Conversion tasks are assigned to graphical processors by the distribution manager based on the conversion capabilities of the associated application program. The uploaded files received from clients for conversion are stored in a shared folder pending access by the assigned graphical processor. The graphical processors have a uniform interface with the queues and the memory. The results of the processing are stored in the shared folder where they are subsequently accessed by the web server and transmitted back to the client.

File conversion system and method

Automated electronic document design systems and methods for combining identified images and layouts into electronic product templates for displaying to a user. A plurality of images and a plurality of layouts are retained. Stored images are identified based on keyword input by the user. Stored layouts contain one or more image containers and are identified based on product type and number of layout images input by the user. Images and layout image containers are designed to use pre-determined standard sizes to facilitate modularity and the ready combination of images and layouts.

System and method for automated product design

Method, system, and computer code for preparing markup language documents containing multi-line text elements for WYSIWYG printing. The document is rendered in a prepress server system by a duplicate of the browser that was used to prepare the document in the client system. User-imposed line breaks are identified by reviewing text elements for break characters. Browser-imposed line breaks are identified by comparing spatial location information from the browser for each sequential pair of characters in a text element. The collective line break information is used to ensure that the line breaks viewed by the user are maintained when the document is converted to a prepress system.

System and method for identifying line breaks

Systems and methods for facilitating a WYSIWYG relationship between character strings when rendered on a relatively low resolution device, such as a computer monitor, and the same character strings when rendered on a relatively high resolution device, such as a laser printer or commercial offset printing press, involve determining the difference in the widths of each character string when rendered in both the low resolution format and the high resolution format and inserting or deleting space as required between the individual characters in the character string such that the widths of the low resolution and high resolution strings are substantially equalized.

Low resolution-to-high resolution image correlation

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Anatoliy V Tsykora