CN100412782C - A method to complete the output of the whole file adaptively according to the color mode - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for using a computer and a digital printing machine to realize self-adaptive output to different digital printing devices according to color modes to complete the output of a whole document, which belongs to the field of computer information processing. The method is to use software to automatically judge the color mode of the page, and automatically set the insert tray for special pages, and use multiple printers to jointly complete the output of the entire document at one time. This not only greatly improves the efficiency of the mixed output of multi-color modes, effectively reduces the printing cost, but also improves the correctness of the output. This method is more suitable for the high flexibility and variability of printing in the era of digital printing, and promotes the development of digital printing.

Description

A method to complete the output of the whole file adaptively according to the color mode

technical field

The invention belongs to the technical field of computer information processing, and in particular relates to a method for self-adaptively completing the output of an entire file according to a color mode.

Background technique

With the advent of the information age, the current printing field has presented many new features. For large-volume, time-sensitive, personalized printing, especially some books or magazines with many pages in color or special color models, and these color pages require expensive color printers to print out, traditional digital printing output These operations all rely on manually extracting the color pages and printing them on the color printer, then use the printer's interleaving function to manually set the interleaving pages of these color pages in the book to achieve combined output, which is not only inefficient, but also Extremely error prone.

Contents of the invention

Aiming at the deficiencies in the prior art, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for adaptively outputting the entire document according to the color mode. The method can utilize each paper tray of the digital printing machine to automatically complete the color mode adaptive output.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical solution adopted by the present invention is: a method for adaptively completing the output of the entire file according to the color mode, including the following steps:

(1) Submit the job on the logical printer, and the logical printer will automatically judge the color model of each page, submit each color model page to the corresponding printer, and determine the main printer and auxiliary printer;

(2) Mark the corresponding auxiliary printer pages in the main printer page list as printer blank inserts, and specify the used paper tray for each insert, and simultaneously output the auxiliary printer pages;

(3) Take out the page paper output by the auxiliary printer, put it into the corresponding paper tray of the main printer, and complete the output of the entire job by the main printer.

Furthermore, in order to make the present invention have a better inventive effect, the page list in the job described in step (1) includes pages of various color models, and the arrangement order between pages of different color models is random of.

After the pages in the job are classified in step (1), each type of color model page is output by a separate printer.

The color models of the pages in the job described in step (1) include: color (CMYK), black and white, two-color, and multi-color.

The logical printer described in the above method is an abstract concept of various digital printing devices, and it is actually a job scheduling control unit of various output devices; through this control unit, the judgment of the page color model is completed, and the main printer is automatically marked Blank inserts, and submitting the pages to the corresponding printers according to the page color model.

The main printer mentioned in the above method refers to the printer used to output the entire job in the end; Start printing output. The auxiliary printer refers to other printers other than the main printer, and the auxiliary printer is used to print other pages that should be printed by the main printer.

In step (2), each type of page corresponds to the main printer tray number is automatically set, and this setting is completed by the logical printer without human intervention; the logical printer first classifies the job pages according to the color model, and then classifies each job page. The Class page sets a primary printer tray number.

The effect of the present invention is that: adopting the method described in the present invention, it is very convenient to use multiple printers to jointly output the entire job, which can not only improve the output speed, but more importantly, when outputting color and black and white mixed jobs, Output cost can be saved.

The reason why the present invention has the above-mentioned effects is that firstly, the method utilizes software to automatically identify the color model of the page, and classifies the pages according to the color model, and automatically assigns each type of page to a different printer for output; secondly, the method utilizes Combined output of multiple printers, and use of multiple paper trays of the printer to complete the overall output of the job.

Description of drawings

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the principle of adaptively outputting the entire document according to the color mode;

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of multi-printer joint output.

Detailed ways

The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

Example:

As shown in FIG. 2 , a file 1 to be output has 10 pages in total.

Among them, pages 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 are color pages, pages 2, 4, 6, and 8 are black and white pages, and page 10 is two-color pages.

As shown in Figure 2, assume that the black and white printer is set as the main printer, and the document needs to be stapled.

A method for adaptively outputting an entire file according to a color mode, comprising the following steps:

In the first step, as shown in FIG. 1 , the logical printer 11 will judge the color mode of the page according to the data of the page, and submit them to the corresponding color printer 12 , two-color printer 13 , and grayscale printer 14 according to the classification. In this embodiment, it is determined that the black and white printer 21 is set as the main printer, and the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th pages of the file 1 are organized into a job and sent to the color auxiliary printer 22, and the 10th page is sent to the two-color auxiliary printer 23 .

The second step is to generate the main printer page list and send it to the main printer 21 . Pages 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 10 in the main printer page list are marked as printer blank inserts, and the tray for each insert is specified. In this embodiment, the black and white page specifies the No. 1 paper tray 24 of the main printer, the color page specifies the No. 3 paper tray 26 of the main printer, and the two-color page specifies the No. 2 paper tray 25 of the main printer. Note that the No. 2 and No. 3 trays must be empty before printing starts. At this time, the auxiliary printers 22 and 23 will start printing, and the main printer 21 will be in a waiting state because the paper cassette is out of paper.

In the third step, after all the auxiliary printers 22 and 23 have finished printing, take out the page paper output by the auxiliary printers and put them into the paper trays of the main printer 21 corresponding to them. The order of placing paper in the cassette is reversed, so it must be placed in reverse order. After the main printer 21 puts paper in the relevant paper tray, the main printer 21 will automatically resume printing. At this time, the main printer 21 will combine the output pages of the auxiliary printer to form a complete print job, and can complete operations such as post-binding.

For the mixed output of multiple color modes like this, the invention can greatly improve the work efficiency of such output, reduce the output cost, and reduce the occurrence of errors.

The above-mentioned embodiments are applicable to Injet Digital Printing Production System of Peking University Founder, but the present invention is not limited to this digital printing system. For other systems, the method described in the present invention is also applicable and has the same remarkable effect. Any modifications and changes made by those skilled in the art within the spirit and scope of the disclosure of the present invention are equivalent replacements, and these modifications and changes all belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (5)

1. A method for adaptively completing the output of an entire file according to the color mode, comprising the following steps: (1) Submit the job on the logical printer, and the logical printer will automatically judge the color model of each page, submit each color model page to the corresponding printer, and determine the main printer and auxiliary printer; The logic printer is a job scheduling control unit of various digital printing equipment; through the control unit, the judgment of the page color model is completed, the blank insert of the main printer is automatically marked, and the page is submitted to the corresponding printer according to the page color model ; The main printer refers to the printer used for final and complete output of the entire job; the main printer is any one of all printers, and the main printer starts to print out after the paper output by the auxiliary printer is put into the main printer's paper tray; The auxiliary printer refers to other printers other than the main printer, and the auxiliary printer is used to print other pages that should be printed by the main printer; (2) Mark the corresponding auxiliary printer pages in the main printer page list as printer blank inserts, and specify the used paper tray for each insert, and simultaneously output the auxiliary printer pages; (3) Take out the page paper output by the auxiliary printer and put it into the corresponding paper tray of the main printer, and the main printer completes the output of the entire job. 2. A method for self-adaptively completing the output of the entire document according to the color mode as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: after the pages in the job are classified in step (1), each type of color model page uses A single type of printer output. 3. A method for adaptively completing the output of a whole document according to the color mode as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: between the pages of different color models contained in the page list of the job described in step (1) The sort order is random. 4. A method for self-adaptively completing the output of the entire document according to the color mode as claimed in claim 1 or 3, characterized in that: the color model of the page in the job described in step (1) includes: color, black and white, two-color , Multicolor. 5. A method for self-adaptively completing the output of the entire document according to the color mode as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: in step (2), each type of page corresponds to the main printer tray number is automatically set, This setting is done by the logical printer without human intervention; the logical printer first classifies the job pages according to the color model, and then sets a main printer tray number for each type of page.

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