Oce-technologies B.v.

Robertus Cornelis Willibrordus Theodorus Maria Van Den Tillaart

Monica Maria Wilhelmina Mathea Roosen

Duncan Antoon Helena Stiphout

Johannes Franciscus Maria Elisabeth Geelen

Jan Jozias Janse

Antonius Cornelius Maria Van Buren

A method, printing apparatus and computer program for making documents are provided. In the method, a printing apparatus including a mechanism for placing an order for making a document in a queue, is used. The queue is capable of containing a number of jobs in a sequence in which they are to be executed. The method includes requesting at least one job for making a document on behalf of a user associated with the printing apparatus, receiving the at least one job by the printing apparatus, and automatically placing the at least one job in the queue, wherein when the user is identified at the printing apparatus, in response to which the at least one job ordered on behalf of the user is automatically placed at a predetermined location in the queue.

Method, printing apparatus, and computer program for placing a requested print job in a queue

A method, apparatus, article of manufacture and data structure for automating the processing of scan data files generated by a digital scanner are presented, in which an operator selects at the scanner console one of a set of preprogrammed scan job types and starts it. Then, a scan data file is automatically synthesized from the scan data generated in the scanning process and meta data that identify the selected scan job type. The synthesized scan data file is transmitted to a server that recognizes the meta data and processes the file further in accordance with the scan job type identified in the meta data. Scan job types can be created by users and downloaded to the scanner and the server.

Automated scan processing

A method, apparatus and program for distributed printing of digital print files in a network system including a print service and a plurality of printers adapted for interactive printing are provided. An interactive printing involves printing a print file only upon selection thereof and entering a print command through the local user interface of the printer. In a first step of the method, the print service receives a print file, stores it and distributes information on the stored print file to a plurality of the printers. In a second step, a print process for the print file is started, locally or remotely, in one of the printers and, while this print process is active, a print process for the same print file is started locally in one or more of the other printers. During the printing, the print service controls the printers to print together the required number of copies.

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Gemert, Netherlands

Robertus Cornelis Willibrordus Theodorus Maria Van Den Tillaart