Mimeo.com, Inc.

Xerox Corporation

Craig W Jacobs

David Jacques Uyttendaele

Jennifer R Pinco

Jeff Stewart

James P Simpson

Joseph L Filion

Doug Fink

Chuck Gehman

Shawn A Roberts

Austin Bergstrom

Randall R Hube

Martin F LoBiondo

Charles F Evans

William J Moon

Diane S Rogerson

Scott Manner

Mei-Yuei Lee

Kitty S Koul

Doug Finke

Kenneth E Rohlfing

Robert Sweetland

John Delbridge

Sean Roberts

A solution for managing branding for an entity is provided. The solution can generate a brand style guide by analyzing electronic entity identity resources, which are representative of one or more branding strategies for the entity. The analysis can include extracting entity brand attributes from each electronic entity identity resource. Illustrative entity brand attributes can include one or more of: image data, font data, color data, or text. An ad hoc style guide, which can include at least one branding strategy for the entity can be generated and provided for presentation to a user.

Brand-based product management with branding analysis

A solution for evaluating a compatibility of a selected finishing with printed data of a document is provided. A page model is obtained for a page of the document, and its compatibility with a model of the selected finishing is evaluated. Each model can comprise a representation of a page/finishing (e.g., a bitmap) and/or a set of properties of the page/finishing. In an embodiment of the invention, the page model comprises a page bitmap and the finishing model comprises a finishing bitmap, which includes a set of impinged pixels. The two bitmaps are compared to determine whether any of the printed data in the page bitmap intersects any of the impinged pixels.

Finishing compatibility evaluation

A solution for evaluating a printing configuration for an electronic document in which one or more presentation attributes of a physical reproduction (e.g., a printed copy) of the electronic document are considered. A perceived quality of the physical reproduction of the electronic document can be determined using a set of properties of the electronic document and the one or more presentation attributes. The perceived quality can be utilized in various ways as part of a printing process.

Presentation-based quality determination

The invention generally relates to sending data (e.g. print data or a document), in a network environment, to a port monitor, and to upload the data to an upload manager for storing in a database. Relevant data may be sent from a print spooler to the port monitor invoking an upload manger to convey (e.g. securely or non-securely) print data to a web server. A version manager determines whether the print driver being used to print data is authentic, and data are written to a web server as packets of information and sent to a database for storage. Additionally, a system, method and recordable medium are recognized whereby a pass through (e.g. a port monitor filter) is inserted between a print spooler and a port monitor in order to detach the port monitor from the print spooler such that object code can be upgraded for future versions of software.

System, method and recordable medium for previewing a document over the network

This invention relates to a system and method to upload and recover print jobs over a network. A client sends to a server a request for a specific document to be uploaded for transfer across a network. The sever creates an object to identify and process the request. The server sends a response to the client indicating that the request has been received and an associated object has been created. The server stores packets of the data document as they are uploaded and transmitted. Once the complete document has been uploaded and transferred to the server, it is stored in a network accessible data store.

System, method and recordable medium for uploading documents over a network

An imaging control facility allows an operator of an electronic device to submit a single imaging request to image a selected electronic document in multiple imaging formats. The imaging control facility may include an imaging control library that provides visual representations, such as icons, for representing predefined multiple imaging format settings. In addition, the image central facility is drag and drop compatible so that an operator may configure one or more selected image forming devices to image an electronic document in multiple imaging formats by dragging and dropping a selected icon onto a designated target area.

Method for imaging multiple sets of an electronic document on one or more image forming devices

System, method and recordable medium for printing services over a network

A job ticket generating system for a printing system is provided. The job ticket generating system includes a user interface having a display screen and a job ticket displayed on the user interface. The job ticket includes an original user feedback image, an electronically based scale settable in a plurality of positions, and an image processing subsystem for altering an appearance of the user feedback image in response to a change in the electronically based scale&mdash;the electronically based scale is set to one of the plurality of positions. The job ticket generating system further includes a library of masks with one of the masks being selected from the library of masks based on the one of the plurality of positions set with the electronically based scaled. In practice, the image processing subsystem applies the selected mask to the original user feedback so as to obtain an altered user feedback image whose appearance is changed relative to the original user feedback image.

Printing system with print job programming capability

An automatic transmitting system for use in a networked printing system including a first client, second client and server. The automatic transmitting system includes an agent, operatively associated with the server, for maintaining information regarding a plurality of subsystems associated with a printing machine--the agent communicates with both the first and second clients. The automatic transmitting system further includes a registration system, including the first client, the second client and the agent, for registering the information. The information includes a first identifier and a second identifier, the first and second identifiers being stored with the agent and corresponded with first and second sets of information, respectively. In practice, the agent transmits the first set of information exclusively to the first client when a first event occurs in one or more of the plurality of subsystems and transmits a second set of information exclusively to the second client when a second event occurs in one or more of the plurality of subsystems.

Apparatus and method of automatically transmitting event-related

A touch sensitive user interface of the type having a display screen for displaying an image; control logic responsive to the touch sensitive user interface for determining the contact position of a probe, such as a finger, thereon; a display menu of operating features, represented by a plurality of images on the display screen, so that a user may make touch selections on the images corresponding to operating features desired; a system controller for identifying a contact zone of a predetermined size with respect to the display screen, the control logic actuating the feature within the system represented by a displayed image in response to user touch within a corresponding contact zone, the system controller enlarging the contact zone of a selected feature upon selection thereof, to a size accommodating a probe tip, without overlapping on adjacent areas and upon completion of option selection, returning the expanded contact areas to said predetermined size.

Touch screen user interface with expanding touch locations for a

Programming conflict identification system for reproduction machines using a color touch screen for inputting programming instructions having a job review window for displaying the programming selections made, a message area in which one conflict message at a time is displayed, and an error table in which programming conflicts are queued, with programming selections corresponding to the currently displayed conflict message highlighted by black text on an amber background, and remaining conflicts highlighted by amber text on a white background.

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Fairport, NY, United States of America

Craig W Jacobs