Page and subset feature selection user interface
View Patent ↗An improved interface for use with a digital printer is presented. The interface utilizes information held by the raster imaging processor to allow an operator quick access to information about the print features of a print job and the ability to easily and quickly alter those print feature if necessary.
1. A user interface configured to manage print jobs, the user interface communicatively connected to a printer configured to print the print jobs, the user interface comprising:
a display device on which page-level print features associated with groups of pages of a single print job are displayed in a table structure wherein a first axis of the table structure represents a plurality of page-level print features along the axis, and a second axis of the table structure represents the groups of pages of the single print job; and
an input device configured to interact with the table structure that allows the inputting of new and alteration of existing page-level print features for the single print job.
2. The user interface of claim 1 , wherein the display device is formed integrally with the printer.
3. The user interface of claim 1 , wherein the display device utilizes color to denote a state of a page-level print feature.
4. The user interface of claim 1 , wherein each group of pages must be associated with a different set of page-level print features.
5. The user interface of claim 1 , wherein the groups of pages are represented along the second axis in an order in which the groups of pages appear in the single print job.
6. A computer-implemented method of managing a print job, the method comprising the steps of:
displaying, on a display, a plurality of page-level print features associated with a plurality of groups of pages of a single print job, the plurality of page-level print features being displayed along a first axis of a table structure;
displaying, on the display, the plurality of groups of pages of the single print job along a second axis of the table structure, wherein a cell in the table structure identifies a page-level print feature of the plurality of page-level print features associated with a group of pages of the plurality of groups of pages of the single print job;
receiving input from a user interface interacting with a portion of the table structure; and
modifying one of the plurality of page-level print features associated with one of the plurality of groups of pages of the single print job in response to the input.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the display utilizes color to denote a state of a page-level print feature of the plurality of page-level print features.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein each group of the plurality of groups of pages must be associated with a different set of page-level print features of the plurality of page-level features.
9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the plurality of groups of pages are represented along the second axis in an order in which the groups of pages appear in the single print job.