Oce-technologies B.v.

Marcus Willibrordus Krom

Sebastian P R C De Smet

Andreas Wierda

Wilhelmus Johannes Couwenberg

Marco H H Brasse

Roger Michel Helene Bergs

Marco H H Brassé

Olivier Romuald Charles Pierre Henri Schneider

A print engine for producing printed output according to image data in a print job includes in its user interface an activation element for printing a part of the image data in a selected print job using currently applicable calibration data. After inspection of the printed output the selected print job may be finished without further calibration or it may be finished after a calibration is performed. This calibration of the intensity of the process colors is performed for a job control value that occurs within the selected print job. Therefore the effect of the calibration is directly visible to the user of the print engine.

Print engine for printing a print job using appropriate calibration data

A method for composing a global histogram of the values of the pixels of a hardcopy original includes a division of a detection area, which may be larger than the original, in stripes. For each of the stripes, a local histogram is made, which is added to a candidate histogram. If the decision is made from the values of the local histogram that a stripe belongs to the original, the candidate histogram is added to the global histogram. In this way, a representative histogram of the original is obtained, even if the white pixels from the original are indiscernible from the white pixels from the cover of the scanner. The method is embodied in an electronic component, including an application specific processing unit.

Method for composing a reflectivity histogram and reprographic apparatus using this method

The invention relates to a method of processing information with a system comprising at least two processing devices coupled to a network, in which method a job for processing information is defined by a user of the system, whereafter in respect of processing devices belonging to a predetermined set selected from the at least two processing devices, a check is automatically made whether the same are suitable for performing the job, whereafter each processing device of the set is presented to the user via presentation means, wherein for each of said processing devices an indication is given whether the same is suitable for performing the job, whereafter a processing device belonging to the set is selected, and at least a part of the job is transmitted to the selected processing device. The invention also relates to a system for processing information suitable for applying this method and a computer program element for an information processing system to perform this method.

Technology for processing information e.g. representing print requests in networked environment a system suitable for applying this method, and a computer program element comprising a program code for applying this method

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