Table driven approach for inserting and printing tabs

摘要

The invention regards a method to operate a printer to insert tabs into a multipage document. The physical tabs are stored in one of printer's insert bins. A graphical user display shows a bank of tabs in a layout table. A tab is activated by specifying a page for the tab. Text and graphics may be entered on the tab or selected from templates for labels and style. A layout template stores data on the layout of one or more standard banks of tabs. According to the method the number to tabs are automatically balanced and unused blocks of tabs automatically deleted.