International Business Machines Corporation

Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC

Infoprintsolutions Company, LLC

Kent S Norgren

Kenneth Stuart Shouldice

Samuel Neely Hopper

Allan Anthony Hren

Ronald Earl Van Buskirk, Ii

Robert E Vogelsberg

Brian Charles Pendleton

David Ward

Larry David Teklits

Stephen Goddard Price

Rose Ellen Visoski

David E Finlay

Ronald Dean Parrish

Frankie Sherwood Shook

Stephen Edward Stucka

J Wesley Boyes, Jr

Erin Ann Boyd

Paul E Roberts

Elke M Jones

Systems and methods are provided for printer controller, dynamic N-UP print job imaging. An enhanced printer includes features hereof to dynamically adjust parameters of a print job at any point in a print job. In one aspect hereof, the printer configures a print job for an initial set of printing parameters without host system intervention and may reconfigure those parameters during printing of the print job. In another aspect hereof, the adjustments may include adjusting the relative position of any of the N-UP images independent of any other of the N-UP images. Another aspect hereof provides that the formatting of the print job according to printing parameters by the printer occurs after rasterizing the print job into logical page images. Since the formatting is performed after rasterizing, the printing parameters may be changed at any time during printing of the print job.

Printer controlled dynamically altered N-UP imaging

Provided are a method, system, and program generating user defined marking settings to print marks to control post-processing devices. A user interface is generated to enable user input to define at least one marking setting comprising a name of the marking setting, a dimension of a marking, and a location of the marking on the print medium. Marking settings control a printer to output markings on a print medium. The outputted markings on the print medium control at least one post processor device to perform post processing operations on the print medium. User input is received from the user interface defining at least one marking setting. The user defined at least one marking setting is stored with an existing set of marking settings to control the printer.

Generating user defined marking settings to print marks to control post-processing devices

A print controller, methods, and software are disclosed. A print controller of the invention includes applications, a parameter manager, and a notification system. The applications register with parameter manager those parameters for which they want to be notified when a change occurs. As part of the registration, the applications designate a callback identifier (CID) for each of the parameters, where an individual CID may be associated with a single parameter or a plurality of related parameters. Responsive to receiving an indication of changes to one or more of the parameters, the notification system identifies the applications registered to be notified of changes to the parameters, and identifies the CIDs associated with the parameters that have changed. The notification system then transmits one or more notification messages, including the identified CIDs for the changed parameters, to each application that is registered.

Notification of changed parameters in a printing system

An apparatus, system and method for printing a print job for which the pages are orientation sensitive and includes both simplex pages and duplex pages is provided. The apparatus, system, and method includes a controller that communicates with a print module. Program code within the controller is programmed to selectively designate based on control information associated with the print job a first bin for paper to print a simplex page and a second bin for paper to print a duplex page. The first bin may be associated with a single bin indicated by the print job and is used for simplex pages while the second bin is used for duplex pages of the print job. The first bin comprises paper oriented for simplex pages and the second bin comprises paper oriented for duplex pages. The paper in the first bin and second bin may be oriented with respect to side sensitivity and/or edge sensitivity. Simplex pages are threaded along the simplex path and duplex pages are threaded along the duplex path.

Multi-bin orientation sensitive printing system and method

Independent asynchronous bus master devices share a common bus with control lines serially connecting each bus master in a daisy-chain contiguration. A Bus Acknowledge signal is received by a local bus master which is thereby enabled to seize control of the bus without an input synchronization delay by first inhibiting synchronization means to prevent the passage of the Bus Acknowledge signal to a downstream device for a period of time sufficient to stabilize an output signal indicating such passage. In that manner, the output signal may be used to control the immediate enabling of local bus seizure thereby avoiding local synchronization delay.

Access control to a shared resource in an asynchronous system

A common memory interfacing circuit and method for coupling a memory to either a synchronous bus or an asynchronous bus. Synchronizing means are provided for synchronizing memory request signals with a local clock when the interfacing circuit is coupled to an asynchronous bus. The interface circuit responds to signals from the memory when internal memory operation has been completed and generates an acknowledge signal to send to the requesting bus. To simplify the common interface circuit, a synchronous protocol for information exchange between system components is made similar to an asynchronous protocol.

Memory controller with synchronous or asynchronous interface

Circuit for sequencing asynchronously the direction-indicating signal and the gating signal to bidirectional switch so that the direction-indicating signal is maintained before, during, and after the gating signal. Provision is also made for producing two gating signals in response to a change in the direction of transmission through the bidirectional switch if the direction-indicating signal changes during the gating signal.

Bidirection data switch sequencing circuit

A peripheral processing controller controls access to a peripheral memory by specialized peripheral devices. The specialized peripheral devices process all of the data independently of a central processor that simply supervises the system. The controller uses Memory Address Registers (MARs) to control the access to the memory by the peripheral devices. Each peripheral device selects a MAR, and each MAR includes a mode register. The start address and mode are set in each MAR by the supervising central processor. Also, each peripheral device is set by the processor to select a MAR. When the controller grants each peripheral device access to the peripheral memory, the peripheral device uses whatever mode and starting address has been initialized for the MAR selected by the device. Each time the device accesses the memory, the address in the MAR is incremented so the MAR is ready for the next access. In this way, a peripheral device will advance through a block of memory space. The mode is used to specify the end-of-block (EOB) condition for the block of memory space that the peripheral device is working with. The EOB may be based on the number of accesses by a device to the memory or it may be based on particular memory addresses.

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