Method for creating complex layouts with variable data for multiple high speed printing systems
CA 2215094 A1 · Owner: Eblin, Verlin D. · Inventors: Desautels, John E.; Hern, Brian F.; Pratt, Richard L.
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A method is provided for creating, complex document layouts with variable data. The document layouts are placed on a web template associated with a printing system. The prepared data can support both ink jet and laser output formats from the same job creation. A merged data stream is generated, containing fixed and variable data as input job data, and is output on the high speed printing system. Initially, multiple layouts of document formats are created. Insertion of variable data placeholders into the multiple layouts is specified. The variable data is then merged into an appropriate one of the multiple layouts at the location of the placeholders.
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- Filed September 11, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 11, 2017.
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