Methods and systems for arranging shapes within a document prior to printing cut-out patterns are described. A printing device may identify and group contents in a page of a print job as shapes to be cut out from the paper after they are printed. The printing device may then detect the grouped page contents as cut-out patterns. For each cut-out pattern, the printing device may detect the white spaces of content of the cut-out pattern and mark them as available for printing other cut-out patterns. Thus, the printing device may print multiple cut-out patterns on a same page based on using the white space within larger cut-out patterns.

A first successive printing job executed for printing a plurality of images in series on a first medium placed alongside a second medium is interrupted after the completion of one printing job for a first image included in the first successive printing job, and before the start of another printing job for printing another image following the first image; a second successive printing job executed for printing a plurality of images in series on the second medium in parallel with the first successive printing job is interrupted after the completion of a printing job included in the second successive printing job and being under execution at a time point at which the first successive printing job has been interrupted; and the maintenance for the printing head is executed in a state in which both the first successive printing job and the second successive printing job is interrupted.

A roll-fed printing assembly, a software medium, and a method of controlling a roll-fed printing assembly are disclosed. The method includes: controlling the printing to execute a first print job containing a batch of nested individual jobs; detecting a pause state during the executing of the first print job; stopping the executing of the first print job in response to the detecting of the pause state; determining, for each individual job of the first print job, whether that individual job belongs to either: a first group of individual jobs that have already been printed successfully, or to a second group of individual jobs that have not yet been printed successfully; creating a second print job by automatic re-nesting of the jobs of the second group based on a nesting criterion; and controlling the printing assembly to execute the second print job.

Additional information can be appropriately added to an area in a template. The web application execution unit of a printer displays a print layout on a control device in a format enabling adding additional information to areas formed in the printing area of a print medium based on a first template, and when additional information is added to one area, changes to a format reflecting the additional information applied to the one area, and displays the print layout.

The present invention relates to a method of printing a print job by an image reproduction system. The print job specifies a printing step on an image receiving medium and a finishing step in or on the image receiving medium. The method comprises the steps of receiving the print job by the image reproduction system and receiving a trigger by a controller of the image reproduction system that the finishing step is not to be performed. In such a case for a digital image comprised in print job data of the print job, at least one digital finishing visualization image of a predetermined visual appearance of a result of the finishing step in or on the image receiving medium is obtained as well as a position of the digital image for merging the obtained at least one digital finishing visualization image with the digital image. The digital image is updated by merging the obtained at least one digital finishing visualization image with the digital image at the obtained position. The updated digital image is printed by the image reproduction system.

A roll-fed printing assembly, a software medium, and a method of controlling a roll-fed printing assembly are disclosed. The method includes: controlling the printing to execute a first print job containing a batch of nested individual jobs; detecting a pause state during the executing of the first print job; stopping the executing of the first print job in response to the detecting of the pause state; determining, for each individual job of the first print job, whether that individual job belongs to either: a first group of individual jobs that have already been printed successfully, or to a second group of individual jobs that have not yet been printed successfully; creating a second print job by automatic re-nesting of the jobs of the second group based on a nesting criterion; and controlling the printing assembly to execute the second print job.

The disclosed embodiments illustrate method and system for providing assistance for document preparation. The method includes processing one or more portions for one or more field names in an electronic document by a multifunction device. The electronic document corresponds to a hand-filled document, which comprises a character string in a first format for a field name. Further, one or more portions are processed to determine a second format and a location of each character string. A set of information is received in a pre-specified format for the one or more field names from a user-computing device. A field value for each of the processed one or more portions is determined based on a match between the character string and key strings associated with field names. The electronic document is updated based on replacement of the processed one or more portions with corresponding determined field value at the location.

The disclosed embodiments illustrate method and system for providing assistance for document preparation. The method includes processing one or more portions for one or more field names in an electronic document by a multifunction device. The electronic document corresponds to a hand-filled document, which comprises a character string in a first format for a field name. Further, one or more portions are processed to determine a second format and a location of each character string. A set of information is received in a pre-specified format for the one or more field names from a user-computing device. A field value for each of the processed one or more portions is determined based on a match between the character string and key strings associated with field names. The electronic document is updated based on replacement of the processed one or more portions with corresponding determined field value at the location.

The present invention relates to a device for transforming by digital processing a substrate and preferably a pre-processed substrate. The present invention also relates to a method for transforming by digital processing a substrate, preferably a pre-processed substrate.

A system, device, and method for printing N-up documents with background forms, by receiving an instruction to print an N-up document, obtaining a document to be printed as the N-up document and a background form, receiving matchings of logical surfaces of the N-up document to the background form, decomposing the logical surfaces of the N-up document into raster images, generating tags, wherein each tag is associated with a pixel of a logical surface of the N-up document and identifies the logical surface, combining raster images of the logical surfaces into an N-up raster image, merging, using the tags, the background form with the N-up raster image to generate a merged N-up raster image, and printing the merged N-up raster image.