发明名称 Method and system for mass production of variable shaped products
摘要 A computerized system, method, and computer-readable media implementing a method for mass producing variable shaped printed products is presented. A set of cutlines defining a shape for the ordered item is associated with each ordered item. A ganging system selects a plurality of ordered items to be simultaneously produced. Individual cutter-ready outline files corresponding to the associated set of outlines for each of the items selected for production are rendered and inserted into a gang template to generate an aggregated cutlines gang file. The gang file and at least one sheet of substrate are submitted to a cutting system. The cutting system cuts the individual finished products from the substrate sheet(s).
申请公布号 US8783553(B2) 申请公布日期 2014.07.22
申请号 US200912607941 申请日期 2009.10.28
申请人 VISTAPRINT SCHWEIZ GmbH 发明人 Hyman Jacob A.;Gerber Marcel;Frias Kristen R.;Breen, Jr. Anthony A.;Niles Peretz Samuel R.;Tirrella Terence M.
分类号 B26D1/00;G06F7/00 主分类号 B26D1/00
代理机构 代理人 Costa Jessica
主权项 1. A computerized method for producing variable shaped products, comprising: receiving over a network by a computerized fulfillment system a plurality of orders from multiple different customers, each order for the production of at least one item selected by the respective customer and each of the at least one item having an associated markup language format content description defining design content of the ordered item and an associated markup language format cutline description defining a cutout shape of the ordered item, converting, by the computerized fulfillment system, the markup language format content description of each of the at least one item into at least one corresponding individual print-ready file in a format ready to be processed by a printing system; converting, by the computerized fulfillment system, the markup language format cutline description of each of the at least one item into a corresponding individual cutter-ready file in a format ready to be processed by a cutting system; selecting from the plurality of orders, by the computerized fulfillment system, a set of said ordered items to be simultaneously produced; aggregating, by the computerized fulfillment system, respective ones of corresponding individual print-ready files and corresponding individual cutter-ready files of the ordered items in the selected set of ordered items into corresponding positions of respective ones of an aggregate print-ready gang file and an aggregate cutlines gang file; wherein the aggregate print-ready gang file is configured in a format ready to be printed as a whole by the printing system on the substrate, and the aggregate cutlines gang file is configured in a format ready to be received and processed as a whole by the cutting system to cut from the substrate a plurality of individual items, each individual item corresponding to an ordered item from the selected set of ordered items and having a corresponding shape defined according to its associated cutlines description.
地址 Winterthur CH