Print Controller Page Number Equalization for Cut Media
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional print apparatuses fail to equalize the lengths of cut media in copy unit printing, leading to variations in page numbers and lengths, which complicates storage and handling.
Innovation Solution
A print method and system that generates print data with a copy unit printing designation, a cut page number, and a page number equalization designation, inserting blank pages if necessary to ensure the total number of print pages is a multiple of the cut page number, thereby equalizing the length of cut media.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If copy unit printing is performed without page number equalization, then printing efficiency is improved, but the lengths of cut media become unequal
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculation of the total number of print pages and determines whether blank pages need to be inserted before actual printing begins. This preliminary action ensures that the total page count is a multiple of the cut page number, guaranteeing equal-length cut media while maintaining efficient copy unit printing operations
2Manufacturing precision
If blank pages are inserted to equalize page numbers, then the lengths of cut media are equalized, but the total number of pages increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by inserting blank pages only when necessary - specifically when the total number of print pages is not a multiple of the cut page number. This selective approach equalizes cut media lengths while minimizing the addition of blank pages, avoiding excessive action
3Productivity
If the total number of print pages is not a multiple of the cut page number, then copy unit printing can proceed without interruption, but the cut media lengths cannot be equalized
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the total number of print pages and comparing it against the cut page number. When the total is not a multiple of the cut page number, the system automatically inserts blank pages to correct the discrepancy, ensuring both printing continuity and cut media uniformity
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AI summary
A print method in which carrying, cutting and printing of a continuous medium are performed according to print data includes a step of generating the print data that includes; a copy unit printing designation, a cut page number and a page number equalization designation; and a step of determining whether or not the page number equalization designation is included in the print data and whether or not a total number of print pages in printing the print data in the copy units is not a multiple of the cut page number, a step of inserting one or more of blank pages into the print data in order to make the total number of print pages, to which the blank pages are added, equal to the multiple of the cut page number when the page number equalization designation is included and the total number of print pages is not the multiple of the cut page number.