Xerox Corporation

Jeffrey G Reed

Kurt T Knodt

Paul A Rulli

Elizabeth A Bennett

Thomas B Zell

Cynthia A Smith

Paul J Valliere

Acco Hengst

Patricia A Prokop

Harriet Carter

Ernie L Legg

Randy Hube

Nancy K Rees

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

An electronic printing system having a scanner for scanning documents and converting the document images to image signals, a printer for making prints from image signals, and a programmer for programming job selections including a job supplement selection, programming job supplement enabling plural smaller jobs to be combined for a print job and preventing the scanner from scanning a new job until the job supplement program is completed.

Job supplement for electronic printing machines

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Pittsford, NY, United States of America

Jeffrey G Reed