Digital printing system having optimized paper usage

摘要

A method for manufacturing printed page products includes defining a plurality of subbatches each comprising one or more of the pages, creating layouts for the pages in the plurality of subbatches, separating the plurality of subbatches into N groups each comprising a total number of pages equal or less than M, minimizing the difference between the total pages in the N groups and M×N, and printing the layouts of the pages on a stack of sheets each configured to contain layouts for N pages. The layouts of the pages in the stack of sheets are positioned in N columns.

主权项

1. A method for manufacturing printed page products, comprising:
defining, by a computer system, a plurality of subbatches each comprising one or more pages each associated with a layout to be printed by a printing device; storing a predetermined natural number M that is associated with the maximum number of sheets to be fed in a stack to the printing device; assigning, by the computer system, the plurality of subbatches to N groups while keeping the pages in each of the N groups no more than M pages, wherein N is a natural number; arranging the plurality of subbatches among the N groups to minimize the difference between the total number of pages in the N groups and M×N; receiving a stack of sheets by a printing device; and printing the layouts for the one or more pages in the plurality of subbatches in the stack of sheets, wherein pages from the N groups are respectively positioned in N columns in the stack of sheets.