Xerox Corporation

Elizabeth A Bennett

John F Gauronski

Robert W Hurtz

David L Salgado

John L Rourke

Paul A Rulli

Thomas B Zell

Paul J Valliere

Alane H Rowold

Dennis B Ulrich

Kris D Kirchner

Patricia A Prokop

Karen L Dahlby

Jeffrey G Reed

Randy Hube

Claudia Raven

Nancy K Rees

Harriet Carter

Ernie L Legg

An apparatus provides for operating an electronic reprographic system containing a method for recovering from crashes in an electronic reprographic system in which multiple jobs are active concurrently. The system provides for the monitoring of jobs active in the system, and of the number of times a specific job is active and the system crashes. By comparing the number of times a crash occurs when a specific job is active with a predetermined threshold number the operator can evaluate whether the system may be corrupted by a specific job or by the concurrency of jobs. The method further provides the operator with instructions to activate the jobs one at a time to determine which job is corrupt and permits the operator to delete a corrupt job.

Method and apparatus for operating an electronic reprographic printing

A method and apparatus for handling software object faults in an electronic reprographic system for scanning and synchronously or asynchronously processing and printing a plurality of jobs are described. The system is monitored for the occurrence of software object faults in a job, and when such faults are identified, the operator is informed of such software object faults prior to processing of the object. The system is provided with the means to process another object without operator intervention prior to correction of the faulted object, and to proceed with processing the faulted object after correction of the fault.

Method and apparatus for handling object faults in an electronic

A method and apparatus for recovering from faults occurring in an electronic reprographic system capable of processing and printing a multiplicity of jobs is described. The invention provides for the monitoring of the system for the occurrence of faults in a job, interrupting printing of the job upon the occurrence of a fault and determining in which of two fault categories the fault belongs, including an automatic resumption category and a manual resumption category. The invention further provides for automatically resuming the printing of the job without operator intervention in response to clearance of a fault categorized in the automatic resumption category.

Method and apparatus for recovering from object faults in an electronic

An electronic reprographic printing system which is capable of scanning a set of documents, electronically storing in memory images of the scan documents, and printing the electronic images in accordance with operator specified reprographic system functions for the print job. Customer accounts are set up within the reprographic printing system, and billing rates for the various system functions are specified within each account. When a print job is to be performed, the system operator of the reprographic system can allocate the cost of the system functions of the print job to a default account, or to a particular customer account. The billing rates for the various accounts can be changed by the system operator, and statistical and billing reports can be generated covering many different time frames.

Printing system with automatic statistical compilation and billing

An electronic reprographic printing system that allows the sending of messages with a print job from remote user workstations to a central reprographic printing machine. The messages can be displayed on a User Interface, such as a video monitor, and additionally printed on a break page of the print job. Also disclosed is a system for sending messages that is capable of faulting a print job until the reprographic system operator acknowledges receipt of the message. The various messages can instruct the system operator to use a particular medium for the print job, for example, or instruct the system operator how to finish (bind, wrap, etc.) a print job.

Job comment/operator messages for an electronic reprographic printing

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Penfield, NY, United States of America

Elizabeth A Bennett