Production trees for generic representation of document requirements for particular output terminals

• Main Author: WEBSTER, MARC W
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 11.06.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

The method entails converting a job requirement into an assembly tree, that is a relationship of images, copy sheets, and compilations of copy sheets representing the job requirement. The data related to the operational capabilities of each associated module is received from each of the processors interrogating each of the processors to determine the interconnection of each of the modules to other modules. That result in responding to the data related to the operational capabilities of each of the modules, the interconnection of the modules, and to the assembly tree relationship of images, copy sheets. Compilations of copy sheets represent the job requirement for providing a production tree relationship of the operational capabilities of the modules including timing relationships for operating the image processing apparatus.