Job Processing System Standardizing Print Quality Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Commercial printing services face challenges in standardizing information formats for quality conditions and quality reports, leading to inefficiencies in process design and customer communication due to the variety of formats used by different customers and printing companies.
Innovation Solution
A job processing system that utilizes the Print Requirement eXchange (PRX) and Print Quality eXchange (PQX) formats to standardize the transmission of quality conditions and reports, enabling the identification of required quality items and generation of quality notifications within the system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different formats are used for quality conditions and quality reports to accommodate various customers and printing companies, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases and loss of information occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a standardized information format that can universally accommodate quality conditions and quality reports across different customers and printing companies. The format includes standardized data structures for representing quality conditions (such as color accuracy, print resolution, paper quality) and quality reports (measurement results, pass/fail decisions), enabling a single system to handle diverse quality requirements without requiring multiple specialized formats.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different formats are used for quality conditions and quality reports to accommodate various customers and printing companies, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized format preserves information by providing comprehensive data structures that can capture all relevant quality information regardless of the specific customer or printing company requirements. The format includes fields for quality condition specifications, measurement results, evaluation criteria, and decision outcomes, ensuring that no critical information is lost when transmitting between different systems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual process design is used to accommodate variety of quality conditions, then adaptability is improved, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining standardized information formats and data structures for quality conditions and quality reports before actual printing jobs are processed. These standardized templates include pre-configured fields for various quality parameters, measurement methods, and evaluation criteria, allowing the system to automatically handle diverse quality requirements without requiring manual process design for each new job, thereby significantly improving productivity.
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AI summary
A job processing system provides a method capable of determining, for each job, an item a notification of which is to be issued as a quality of a resultant product which is obtained by executing a job from among a plurality of items concerning quality. The job processing system receives quality request data, identifies, based on the received quality request data, an item a notification of which is to be issued as a quality of a resultant product which is obtained by executing the job from among a plurality of items concerning quality, and issues a notification of a quality of the resultant product with respect to the identified item.