A print job is preferably displayed using a visual job ticketing application. An operator is enabled to create multiple job tickets describing print parameters to be applied to the print job. Using the visual job ticketing application, the operator may select a previously created job ticket to be used to display and/or print the print job. Alterations made to the print job are automatically propagated across all associated print job tickets. When creating new print job tickets, the operator may ...

An information engineering writer's tool uses stored common, semi-common and unique information objects to build audience specific documentation, including specific instruction manuals. A recursive processing program retrieves and sorts called information objects a first time and then sorts the contents for nested calls to other information objects. Each information object is stored a single time. Recall of nested information objects is desirably limited to a single time for each printing or pre...

A method of combining at least one captured generated digital image and a prestored digital image. The method includes providing a customer generated image in digital form; automatically determining the aspect ratio of the selected customer generated image; providing a plurality of prestored digital images, each having a predetermined location wherein the customer generated digital image may be placed, the location of each of the plurality of prestored digital images having a different predeterm...

An interface system for a personal computer includes a data input device which receives data including a header portion and a data portion. The data is analyzed to determine whether the data includes environmental data or print data depending on a header code in a header portion. The environment data and the print data comprise separate data packets. Page data is prepared based on any environment data contained in the header, and the environment data is stored to a nonvolatile storage device. An...

An image forming apparatus including scanner section for reading an image of documents and an image of a separation sheet, a circuit for recognizing the image of the separation sheet from the image of the documents, a determining circuit for determining a processing for the image of the documents based on the image of the separation sheet, an operation panel for receiving a processing instruction for the image of the documents, and a processing circuit for processing the image of the documents b...

The disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for superfinishing magnetic disk substrates using a non-friable polishing pad including a high density polyurethane foam binder in which at least 50 percent by weight of classified hard particles are retained. Polishing occurs by rotating the pad against the surface to be ultrafinished in the presence of a water soluable liquid vehicle maintaining a minimum pressure of 5 pounds per square inch at a rotational speed that achieves the desired ag...

A hierarchical bus structure is disclosed in which clusters of processors are arranged and interconnected within a hierarchy to facilitate processor communications via shared memories. The bus structure is well suited for voice processing applications in which clusters of embedded processors process voice streams in parallel, although the architecture is not so limited. Also disclosed is a memory access protocol in which the address and data portions of shared-memory access operations are perfor...

In a printing apparatus for printing on printing paper, page by page, wherein print data of each of virtual pages are divided into blocks, print data of effective blocks are stored in an image memory, while print data of empty blocks are not stored in the image memory, and instead information indicating the emptiness is stored. During supply of the print data to a printing section, empty data are generated from the information on the emptiness, while effective data are read out of the image memo...

A method and apparatus for allocating memory usage in a visual output device having a render engine, a display list memory for storing display list objects and a compressed band buffer memory for storing compressed bitmap data rendered by the render engine. The method includes storing display list objects in the display list memory and detecting that the display list memory is full. Upon detecting the display list memory is full and determining that the compressed band buffer memory is not full,...

While eliminating the need for a dedicated on-line selector switch, a printing apparatus and control method is provided to improve the processes required to replenish consumable printing materials consumed during the printing operation. Using a transport mechanism for transporting the print medium and a printing mechanism for printing to the print medium, the printing apparatus accomplishes the printing process based on data received from a host device, selectively switches between an on-line st...