Method and apparatus for coordinating a printing press control with a hard copy image

摘要

A system (and related method) for coordinating electronic zonal control of a printing press to a hard copy image of the printed form. The system supports a hard copy image in register with an optical source which projects an optical mark onto the image. The optical mark is traversed to selected points on the image. The zonal control information is stored in electronic memory means and can be displayed on an electronic display. Neither the electronic display nor the electronic memory have means for storing the actual image pattern. The electronic display has means for displaying a cursor and traversing the cursor across the displayed zone-by-zone information. The system provides means for translating coordinate information from the optical mark projected onto the hard copy image and controlling the cursor position on the electric display so as to correlate image positions from the hard copy with control zone information in the electronic display.