Workflow Server Standardized Print Data Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
In commercial printing services, the lack of standardized information formats for quality condition and quality report data leads to complexities in operation processes and client communication, particularly when dealing with varied printing products and multiple production systems.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of standardized Print Requirement eXchange (PRX) and Print Quality eXchange (PQX) formats allows for the standardized transmission of quality conditions and reports, enabling the workflow management server to analyze PRX data, generate a target PQX item list, and create quality reports that indicate whether the product quality meets the requested standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If standardized PRX and PQX formats are implemented for quality condition and report data transmission, then operational efficiency and client communication are improved, but the complexity of implementing and maintaining standardized formats increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universal standardized formats (PRX and PQX) that can be used across different printing systems, production sites, and clients. The PRX format universally represents quality conditions while PQX universally represents quality reports, enabling consistent data exchange throughout the entire printing workflow regardless of the specific apparatus or client involved.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces standardized data formats as intermediary layers between the client, workflow management server, and production systems. These formats act as mediators that translate diverse quality requirements and results into a common language, facilitating smooth communication without requiring direct customization between each pair of systems.
2Device complexity
If quality conditions and reports are transmitted in non-standardized formats, then implementation is simpler, but client communication and process coordination become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The standardized PRX and PQX formats serve as universal communication protocols that work across all clients and production systems. This universality eliminates the need for custom format negotiations for each client interaction, making communication easier and more consistent while maintaining simple implementation through well-defined structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple production systems are used to handle varied printing products, then production flexibility increases, but quality verification complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universal PQX format for quality reports across multiple different production systems. This allows diverse printing systems (different apparatuses, technologies, and capabilities) to all output quality data in the same standardized format, enabling centralized and simplified quality verification regardless of which production system was used.
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized PQX format provides structured feedback about quality verification results from any production system. This consistent feedback mechanism allows the workflow management server to automatically interpret and act on quality results from diverse systems without requiring system-specific verification logic.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive print data containing quality request data, a generation unit configured to generate a job based on the quality request data received by the reception unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the job generated by the generation unit to a job processing apparatus, and another generation unit configured to generate product quality data indicating a quality of a product generated by processing the job by the job processing apparatus, wherein, in a case where the quality of the product does not satisfy a quality requested by the quality request data, the another generation unit generates the product quality data indicating that the quality requested by the quality request data is not satisfied.