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 i...