A PRINTING SYSTEM AND CONTROL UNIT UTILIZING A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF A SHEET OR DOCUMENT FOR SELECTING DOCUMENT-FINISHING OPERATIONS

摘要

A printing system including at least one printer for printing images on sheets in accordance with electrical image signals and control signals fed t o the printer, a control unit for feeding electrical image and control signals to the at least one printer, and an input unit for receiving and feeding the electrica l image signals to the control unit. The control unit includes an operating unit for generating control signals relating to a document-finishing operation on sheets for printing by the at least one printer and a display unit adapted to displ ay operating information. The display unit displays a visual representation of a sheet or document in accordance with more than one selectable document- finishing operation by utilizing a single, adaptable visual representation. This adaptable visual representation is provided with selection areas which represent selectable document-finishing operations. A document-finishing operation can be selected by activating an associated selection area. The visual representation of the sheet or document is continuously adapted or updated to reflect a new ly selected document-finishing operation.