Patent
1996-04-15
1998-09-15
Evans, Arthur G.
395117, G06K 1500
Patent
active
058092188
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The assembly of the individual pages to form print forms can be implemented manually or with an assembly station. An assembly station is a "WYSIWIG" picture screen work station (WYSIWIG=what you see is what you get), at which a plurality of pages that are present as what are referred to as PostScript pages are combined into a form under visual control. Structure and general functioning of such a form assembly station are described in the brochure "Signastation" of Linotype-Hell AG, Germany, pages 1 through 8, order number 1292T MDO Lino 001/4d, 188-198 FHM. The assembled form is printed as a PostScript document and contains all information that are required for what is referred to as a print-conforming output. PostScript is a page description language that was developed and introduced into the marketplace by Adobe Systems, Mountainview, Calif., U.S.A., and that has become a world standard. This page description language is described, for example, in the manual "PostScript Language Reference Manual", Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., ISBN 0-201-18127-4. What is involved here is a program language executed on what are referred to as RIPs (RIP=raster image processor) to which a film exposer, also referred to as recorder or image setter, is connected for outputting the pages onto film. In these programs, also referred to as DTP programs (DTP=desktop publishing), what is referred to as a PostScript job in which a plurality of pages reside in a file following one another is generated. These jobs are also called print-to-disk files and can comprise a plurality of megabytes.
The assembly station is very often operated in combination with a server within an image and text processing system. The server has a number of functions; among other things, it serves both as a filing system for the PostScript documents to be processed (file server) as a well as reception and output system for forms to be exposed (print server). The connection between the assembly station and the server and the remaining components of the image and text processing system occurs via a network, for example Ethernet. In this communication between the assembly station and the RIP via the server, the individual pages to be imposed are asynchronously compiled on the server into whole PostScript printer's forms during the interactive imposition process. The data are thereby repeatedly transmitted over the network. This requires enormous network resources since data volumes of more than 100 megabytes must be transmitted. This also negatively influences the time behavior of the system in a lasting way, and the assembly station is blocked for other jobs during this time.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In a forms assembly station in combination with a server and/or RIP, an object of the invention is to increase the speed by reducing the network load and to improve the overall performance behavior of the system. Further, the previous time-consuming, cost-intensive and partly error-affected assembly should be implemented in a fast and dependable electronic process.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to FIGS. 1 through 3.
FIG. 1 shows the page assembly method of the prior art;
FIG. 2 is a schematic execution of the inventive page assembly method of the invention; and
FIG. 3 is an illustration of the data flow of the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
FIG. 1 describes the execution sequence according to the prior art. As already initially set forth, the data of the complete PostScript pages, i.e. the print-to-disk jobs, reside on the server as files. The data flow in the assembly of a printer's form, i.e. the generating of a form PostScript job, is as follows. These pages, i.e. the PostScript document or, respectively, the print-to-disk job, is loaded into the assembly station in arrow direction from the server via the network as a corresponding file. The assembly station internally notes what pages exist and at what posit
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Gahler Arno
Kastenholz Peter
Evans Arthur G.
Linotyoe-Hell AG
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