Eastman-kodak Company

Heidelberg Digital L.l.c.

Tomas Roztocil

David R Hansen

James D Allen

David E Hockey

John J Meyers

John P Swapceinski

George N Tsilibes

Thomas K Sciurba

Robert K Holzwarth

Pierce B Day

Leonard R Christopher

John L Steeves

Ronald F Savino

Peter R Connelie

Dale Smith

Jamal Jamali

Provision is made for identifying selected pages of a document to be automatically sent for printing to one of two or more printing devices. As an example, specific pages can be flagged for printing on a color device while remaining pages stay in default mode, which could be pre-selected as a particular black and white printing device. Upon submission of the job for printing, black images are automatically sent to the black and white device while color pages are sent to a specified color device. The original job remains intact and particular page level settings remain with the job for future use.

Method of programming pages within a document to be printed on different output devices

A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including job origination, job preparation, job submission and job fulfillment. The workflow management software provides an integrated object oriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow. The software further provides functionality for efficient page level modifications to documents at the job preparation stage. This functionality allows such modifications to be easily made to selected pages and visually verified by displaying visual representations of the modifications on visual representations of the pages. In particular, the insertion and attributes of ordered media, such as tab separator pages, is visually represented. This allows an operator to visually verify ordered media ordering and placement and coordinate with the production output device to properly insert and efficiently utilize the ordered media.

System and method for visual representation of tabs in a production printing workflow

A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including job originations job preparation, job submission and job fulfillment. The workflow management software provides an integrated object oriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow. Further the disclosed system facilitates efficient use of output resources by optimally utilizing resources with different output capabilities to produce output optimized for those capabilities. Further the disclosed system and method facilitates seamless integration and automation of dividing production among multiple output resources and re-assembling disparate production into the finished product.

Efficient use of print resources within a job stream

A reproduction apparatus includes a communication interface having an RS-232 interface and a modem, thereby permitting both on-site and remote communication with a diagnostic and administrative device. The RS-232 interface and modem enable the use of standard hardware and non-dedicated telephone lines for the purpose of recording apparatus usage, feature utilization, and performing diagnostic routines on the reproduction apparatus.

System for the remote monitoring of a reproduction apparatus

In a reproduction machine wherein thermoplastic marking particles are permanently fixed to a receiver member by application of heat in a fusing assembly as the receiver member is transported along a travel path, an improved device for cooling the receiver member. The improved cooling device comprises a thermally conductive guide plate located in juxtaposition with the receiver member travel path downstream, in the direction of receiver member travel, of the fusing assembly. A plurality of heat transfer fins extend from the guide plate on the opposite side thereof from the travel path. The heat transfer fins are oriented in a direction parallel to the direction of travel of a receiver member along the travel path. Cooling air is directed over the heat transfer fins to dissipate heat from a receiver member moving along the travel path.

Receiver member cooling device

Method and apparatus are provided for reproducing information on a document sheet so that copies are provided with such information, yet also include additional information that may vary from copy to copy. An electrophotographic reproduction apparatus is provided to optically reproduce the information on the document sheet. The document sheet is provided with a black patch (or placed in a transparent folder having such patch) that is located in the area corresponding to where the variable information is to be written. The document sheet is then placed on a digitizing tablet to provide signals indicative of the area of the black patch. The document sheet is then placed on the exposure platen and optically copied. In response to the signals an LED printhead writes the variable information on the same image frame used to optically copy the original to provide full machine speed copying. The document sheet with black patch may be produced by the apparatus.

Method and apparatus for reproducing documents with variable information

An electrophotographic reproduction apparatus and method are provided for reproducing an original document sheet that includes a continuous tone pictorial information area and a line-type information area. Rather than reproducing the entire document sheet with screening of both types of information, means are provided for selectively screening only the pictorial information area on the reproduction. The means of one preferred embodiment comprises a programmable illumination source that is programmed through inputs by the operator using a digitizing tablet to selectively image portions of a screen onto a charged photoconductive web prior to development of the electrostatic image formed on the web so that only the area on the web receiving the pictorial image is exposed to the screen. In another embodiment the programmable illumination source, such as LED's, modulates the portion of the image frame receiving an optical exposure of the pictorial information with the screen type exposure so that the pictorial information only is reproduced with a screen pattern. In still another embodiment a sensor automatically senses and determines the image portions to be selectively screened.

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Caledonia, NY, United States of America

Tomas Roztocil