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WO2001066349A1
WO2001066349A1 PCT/US2001/006868 US0106868W WO0166349A1 WO 2001066349 A1 WO2001066349 A1 WO 2001066349A1 US 0106868 W US0106868 W US 0106868W WO 0166349 A1 WO0166349 A1 WO 0166349A1
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Ryan Bell
Royal P. Farros
Leslie Wu
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  • the present invention relates to electronic printing systems, and more specifically to an electronic printing system and method for printing of images using a simple user interface.
  • a variety of software applications are available that allow for the creation of several types of printed documents, such as business and greeting cards, stationery and slides. Some applications allow for the printing of such documents on a conventional printer, such as may be found in a home or an office environment.
  • printing facilities contain a variety of specialized printing machinery to facilitate the printing of large volumes of printed products onto a variety of different printable media including plain paper, preprinted paper, business cards, and stationery.
  • printing facilities may have the capability to print onto physical objects, such as cloth T-shirts, caps and coffee mugs.
  • Some software applications allow for the electronic transfer of documents to a printing facility but are limited in the types of documents that may be created and transmitted. While such programs may enable the creation and transmission of one type of document, such as stationery, they are incapable of the creation and transmission of other types of documents, such as those documents to be placed on mugs, golf balls, T-shirts, etc.
  • certain print mediums such as Post-it® Notes and golf balls, are generally not available for low quantity custom print jobs.
  • a user of an electronic printing system in accordance with the invention may create custom information, such as audio-visual information, graphical information, textual information or the like, on a remote server.
  • a user may select from the custom information to be printed on a selected print medium by selecting from a predetermined set of design templates to create a custom print design.
  • Such custom print designs may be provided to a remote or local printer for printing.
  • the electronic printing system may store the custom design information until an order is placed by the user. Every order may have an order file and one or more associated design files (for example, multiple items in an order).
  • the design files are not limited to computer files but could be objects and other design structures.
  • the design f ⁇ le(s) may describe the initial layout of a print design and may reflect updates to the initial layout based upon the custom design created by a user.
  • Imaging engines resident on the remote servers of the electronic printing system may convert the information in the design f ⁇ le(s) into a graphic file for on-screen representation as well as a "ready-to-print" output file that may be retrieved electronically by a remote or local printer facility.
  • the order files may contain user information and product data, such as a user's billing and shipping address, payment information, the type of media type desired and the ink types and print qualities desired. When an order is submitted, it is staged for conversion. Both the design files and the order files may be converted to printer specific files that may be retrieved electronically by a remote printing facility. The user's order may be carried out by the printing facility and may be sent to the user when completed.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic printing system network in accordance with the invention.
  • Fig. 2 is an example of a screen shot of a web page that includes an electronic image that can be printed on a print medium in accordance with the invention
  • Fig. 3 is another example of a screen shot of the web page shown in Fig. 2 in which print medium choices are selectable;
  • Fig. 4 is an example of a screen shot of a web page that is displayed to a user of the electronic printing system of Fig. 1 showing the design tool module that allows for customization of a print design in accordance with the invention;
  • Fig. 5 is a flowchart showing the operational flow of the electronic printing system in accordance with the invention;
  • Fig. 6 is a flowchart showing an alternative embodiment of the operational flow of the electronic printing system in accordance with the invention
  • Fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the operational flow of the electronic printing system when an order has been submitted for processing by the electronic printing system
  • Fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating the operational flow of the process server of the electronic printing system
  • Fig. 9 is a flowchart illustrating the operational flow of the backend module of the process server.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of an electronic printing system network 10 in accordance with the invention.
  • a system 10 may include a remote server hub 11 connected with one or more clients 12 across a wide area network (WAN) 13, such as the Internet, or more particularly, the World Wide Web.
  • WAN wide area network
  • the server hub 11 may be connected to the Internet 13, for example, through a protected firewall 14 and dual Tl lines 15.
  • the server hub 11 may contain one or more pieces of software code 16 that may be stored on various servers 13a-e, either local to or remote from the server hub 11.
  • the software code 16 may be accessible to each server 13a-e via the server hub 11, and may be executed by microprocessors 17 in the servers 13a-e in order to operate as the electronic printing system 10.
  • the Internet permits the servers 13a-e, when accessed by an individual client 12, to display a web page on the client's 12 computer which permits the client 12 to interact with the servers 13a-e.
  • the individual servers 13a-e may include one or more web servers 13a, one or more image servers 13b, one or more graphics servers 13c, one or more process servers 13d, and one or more file servers 13e. The function and interrelationship of these servers 13a-e will be described in detail herein.
  • the client computer system 12 may include a display device 18, a chassis 19, and one or more user input devices, such as a mouse 20 and a keyboard 21.
  • the chassis 19 may house a permanent storage system 22, such as a hard disk drive, optical disk drive, tape drive, or the like, which may store one or more software applications such as a web browser application.
  • the client 12 computer system may have a memory 23 resident therein and the software application from the disk may be transferred to the memory 23 to be executed by a CPU 24.
  • the browser application may be configured to connect the client 12 to the server hub 11 over the WAN 13 and receive graphical information (web pages) that may be displayed on the display device 18 to the user.
  • the browser application may also permit the client 12 to interact with the servers 13a-e, such as for selecting information, such as images, to be provided to the one or more image servers 13b integrated with a design template and for editing the electronic printing templates in a database(s) 25 that may reside on the remote servers 13a-e in accordance with the invention.
  • the database(s) 25 may include a large number of records, which may be accessed by the various servers 13a-e.
  • the database(s) 25 may include records pertaining to customer personal information, such as shipping information.
  • the database(s) 25 may also include records pertaining to customer billing information, order histories, order status, pricing information, sales tax information, printer information and printer attributes, such as which printer plant may be best utilized for a printing product based, in part, on customer location.
  • the database(s) 25 may include store attributes, product attributes, shipping carriers, options, and costs, and printer-specific information, such as ink colors and media type. It should be understood that the database(s) 25 may include additional record information that has not been described here, and is not limited to the records set forth herein.
  • a user at the client 12 may create information, including electronic images, audio-visual information, graphical information, or the like. While information of any format type can be utilized by the present invention for printing of the information on a selectable print medium, the invention will be described in the context of printing user created electronic images, such as pictures. However, the invention is not intended to be limited to such an embodiment.
  • a user at the client 12 may create custom information, such as electronic images, for example pictures, that may be electronically scanned into, or originally generated in, a digital format, such as JPEG, GIF, TIFF, etc., and stored in a database either on the client system 12 or uploaded to a remote server 28 and stored thereon.
  • the remote server 28 that stores a user's created information, such as electronic images, audio-visual information, graphical information, or the like, may be remote from the server hub 11 in accordance with the invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows an example of a screen shot 30 of an electronic image 40 created on the remote server 28 that is displayed to the user of a client system 12.
  • a user of a client system 12 in communication with the remote server 28 can view the images contained thereon and in accordance with the invention can select from additional images contained on the remote server 28 for printing on a selectable print medium, for example a T-shirt or a coffee mug.
  • a selectable print medium for example a T-shirt or a coffee mug.
  • the web page displayed to the user of a client 12 in communication with the remote server 28 may include both the electronic image 40 and textual information describing the image 40.
  • the images shown could be thumbnail images (small image renditions of the picture) or larger scale images.
  • the user may choose to print the selected image 40 on a print medium, for example, on a T-shirt or a coffee mug.
  • a print medium for example, on a T-shirt or a coffee mug.
  • certain print mediums may not be available for printing of the image depending on, for example, the resolution quality of the image.
  • Some images may not render well on very large print mediums, such as T-shirts, because their associated resolution may be poor. In such a case, the user would not be able to select that print medium to print the image, but may select other available print mediums for printing the image.
  • Fig. 3 shows an example of a screen shot of the print medium selection choices available to the user for printing the image shown in Fig. 2.
  • a menu 50 such as a drop-down menu, associated with the image may be presented to the user that may include the available printing templates of the print mediums that the image can be printed on.
  • a menu 50 such as a drop-down menu
  • other conventional means of providing selectable choices to the user can be practiced.
  • available printing templates may include a mousepad, a T-shirt, a greeting card, a baseball cap, a coffee mug, a wall clock, a photograph, a business card, etc. It should be noted that these print mediums and the embodiment in which they are selectable are described merely for illustrative purposes and are not intended to be limiting.
  • textual information such as keyword information that is found in a design, for example the keyword "EMAIL" together with the contextual e-mail message address information
  • location information can be passed to the image server(s) 13b and the image server(s) 13b can use this location information to retrieve the image from the remote server 28.
  • additional information can be passed between the remote server 28 and the electronic printing system 10, such as design information and product information.
  • the selected image stored on the remote server 28 is provided to the image server(s) 13b of the electronic printing system 10, either directly or via location information so the image 40 can be retrieved by the image server(s) 13b from the remote server 28, so that the user may customize the print design.
  • Customization may be made available to the user via a design studio software module of the electronic printing system 10 that may be displayed to the user via the web server(s) 13a.
  • Fig. 4 shows a screen shot 35 of the design studio interface available to the user in a case where the user has chosen to place a selected image on a T-shirt.
  • the user may customize the print design by editing the text, graphics, colors, fonts, size, etc. It should be noted that the customization attributes may be different depending upon the print medium design template and the image being customized for printing on the medium.
  • the user may choose to submit the image for printing by the electronic printing system 10 in accordance with the invention.
  • the electronic printing system 10 may store the design information until an order is placed. Every order may have an order file and one or more associated design files.
  • the design files may describe the initial layout of a print design, for example, the generic print medium template selected by the user, and may reflect updates to the initial layout based upon the custom design made by the user.
  • An imaging engine (resident on an image server 13b) may convert the information in the design files into a graphic file for on-screen representation and a process server 13d may convert the design files into a "ready-to-print" output file that may be retrieved electronically by a remote printer facility.
  • the order file may contain user information and product data, such as a user's billing and shipping address, payment information, and the media type desired.
  • product data such as a user's billing and shipping address, payment information, and the media type desired.
  • every print item such as a business card, a T-shirt, a mug, etc.
  • the design files may be structured textual document files that describe the initial layout of the design item, the placement of objects in the design item, and attributes of those objects.
  • new design files are created by the system 10 to reflect the modifications to the default design layout which are then be sent to the image server to create a new image that is displayed to the user reflecting the modifications. Therefore, in accordance with the invention, the user may make changes to the design templates to customize the print design. Such changes are updated in real-time and displayed to the user.
  • a design file typically contains a textual description of elements in a layout of any custom design.
  • the size of the medium, any textual, graphical and line objects to be associated with the design, for example, font preferences and colors, may be reflected as textual design elements in the design files.
  • the design elements are not limited to these attributes and may include any product attributes. For example, the color of the design object, the alignment and the spacing of design elements on the print design may be defined in the design file.
  • design elements available in a custom print design may vary depending upon the print medium.
  • the available design elements may include graphics, colors and text. It should be noted that the number of design elements that may be included in design files is unlimited.
  • the required attributes for a design element may vary depending on the object.
  • the attributes may define an object, the position of the object on the design, its style elements, and its size.
  • the image server 13b functions to reflect, in real time, the changes made to the custom design template. For example, the image server 13b parses the textual information included in the design files and returns a graphical image 41c (stored on the graphics server 13c) representative of the design described by the design files to be displayed to the user in real-time.
  • the image server 13b may convert the textual information into a GIF graphic, or any other graphic file, that is a screen representation of the layout of the custom design. Therefore, a user is able to immediately visualize the changes and modifications that are made to a custom design before submitting the design for processing and remote or local printing.
  • font size, style and other attributes may be defined for a text-based design element in the design file.
  • the spacing above and below the actual text of the text design element may be specified so that lines of text do not overlap when printed on a custom design.
  • the text offset may be calculated automatically by the image server 13b as a user modifies the text attributes or when a graphical representation of the design file is redrawn on a display screen in accordance with user modifications.
  • the spacing depends on the font style and size.
  • the placement of textual information on a print design may also be defined in the design file.
  • the moving alignment (justification), the placement of objects and the overlapping of objects may be defined by establishing placement boxes. Further, the alignment and the spacing of the textual object within the previously defined boxes may be defined in the design file.
  • Placement boxes such as a movement control box normally defines the borders of a move area within the design area.
  • the box can define a more specific area for the placement of objects within the custom design area.
  • the image server 13b uses the box coordinate information to determine the precise coordinates of an object on the design area.
  • the design studio may allow for precise control of alignment of objects in a custom design.
  • positioning boxes may be defined so as to allow a user to accurately position a design element 41.
  • the design studio provides a user with unique placement options within a custom design.
  • a remote server 28 accessible by a user of a client system 12 may store information, such as electronic images, audio-visual information, graphical information, and the like, thereon that are selectable by the user for printing on a selectable print medium.
  • information such as electronic images, audio-visual information, graphical information, and the like, thereon that are selectable by the user for printing on a selectable print medium.
  • the information is passed from the remote server 28 to a server(s) 13b of the printing system 10.
  • the image is passed from the remote server 28 to the image server(s) 13b of the printing system 10.
  • the user may be provided, via the web server 13 a, with an interactive design tool so that the user may customize a print design.
  • the web server 13a may be configured to retrieve the custom design information input by the user and may create and update design files accordingly.
  • the web server 13a may also be configured to initiate a billing procedure, such as a pre- authorization procedure.
  • graphics information may be obtained from the graphics storage location (the graphics may be stored on the image server, the file server, or any server capable of storing image data) and may be conveyed to an image server 13b so that the graphics information may be parsed into image files that may be displayed to a user via the browser interface to reflect user modifications to an initial design.
  • Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the operation flow of the electronic printing system 10 (see Fig. 1).
  • a user may select information, such as electronic images, textual information, audio-visual information, graphical information and the like from a remote server 28, for printing of the selected information on a selectable print medium (Step 50).
  • a remote server 28 may have stored therein a plurality of electronic images, for example photographic pictures.
  • the user may select from the information stored on the remote server 28, for example an image that the user would like to print on a print medium, such as a coffee mug or a T-shirt, and may select a print medium for printing the selected information (Step 51).
  • the selected information such as an electronic image
  • a web server(s) 13a of the electronic printing system 10 (Step 52) and a default design file for the selected design product, such as a generic coffee mug template, is opened and the web server(s) 13a may initiate the creation of a new item in an order with the selected information (Step 53).
  • the design options that are presented to a user may be dependent on the design rules located in the database(s) 25.
  • the generic design information may be passed to the image server (Step 54), where the information may be parsed (Step 55) and rendered as an image file (Step 56) and returned to the web server 13a (Step 57) and downloaded by the user for display to the user through the user interface (Step 58).
  • a design tool interface 30 When downloaded by the user for display, a design tool interface 30 (see Fig. 4) may be displayed to the user through the browser interface allowing the user to modify the design file accordingly.
  • the edits are reflected in real-time so that the most current design file is shown to the user via the display.
  • the image server 13b may include a graphics conversion program that parses textual information (from design files) into graphical images so that the web server 13a can convey these graphical images to the user through the browser interface 30 in real time. Thus, every time a user modifies a design by modifying design files, the web server 13a updates the design information and passes that information to the image server 13b. The image server 13b parses the textual information, renders a graphical image reflecting the design update, and returns the graphical image to the web server 13a so that it is displayed to the user through the browser interface.
  • there may be multiple image servers 13b and multiple web servers connected to the server hub 11. In such case, data traffic between the web server 13a and the image servers 13b may be controlled by a traffic broker.
  • the traffic broker may receive information from the web server 13 a, determine which of the plurality of image servers 13b may presently be able to handle the task due to a light information load, and may pass the textual information to that image server 13b so that the information may be parsed into a graphical image file, at which time the traffic broker may return the graphical image to the requesting web server 13 a.
  • the user submits the design order to the electronic printing system 10 for processing.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates another embodiment of the operation flow (shown in Fig. 5) of the electronic printing system 10 of the invention (Fig. 1).
  • like process steps are represented by like reference numbers and need not be explained.
  • the differences between the operation flow shown in the alternative embodiment include passing the information from the remote server 28 to the "front door" of the electronic printing system 10 and storing the passed information therein (Step 52a).
  • a customer for example, can select a product, such as a print medium, from the electronic printing system 10 and modify a design such as size, layout, etc., as described herein.
  • the information passed from the remote server 28 can be added to the design.
  • additional information can be "grabbed" from the remote server 28.
  • location information of an image resident on the remote server 28 can be provided to the electronic printing system 10 and the system 10 can use this location information to retrieve the image from the remote server 28.
  • textual information such as keyword information can be provided to the electronic printing system 10 and this information can be included in the print design, without requiring the electronic printing system 10 from requesting additional information from the remote server 28.
  • Fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the operational flow of the electronic printing system 10 when a user submits a custom design for printing by the electronic printing system 10.
  • an order file may be created that may include information pertaining to pricing, shipping and billing information. This information may be retrieved to process an order (Step 60).
  • the web server 13a may check the order files to ensure that the billing and the shipping information is correct, that payment information, such as credit card billing information, is valid (Step 61) and provided that all order information is correct, may assign a print facility that can handle the order by line item information in the order file (Step 62). If the information is not conect, the system 10 may request additional information to complete the billing and shipping information.
  • the system 10 may get billing information from the order file (Step 63). The system may then check whether the billing information is correct (Step 64). If not correct, the system 10 may again attempt to gather the correct billing information (Step 63). If billing information is correct the system may process the billing information (Step 65). If payment is to be made by credit card, the system 10 may pre-authorize the credit card purchase (Step 65). If payment information includes credit card billing information, before approving an order, the web server 13a may initiate an associated credit-card clearing house function for pre-authorization of the payment (funds may be reserved without actually charging the credit card). If payment has been validated (Step 66), the system 10 may then approve the order (Step 67). If payment has not been validated, the system 10 may determine whether a payment method problem exists (Step 66a). If so, the system 10 attempts to gather correct billing information (Step 63). Otherwise, the system 10 approves the order (Step 67).
  • purchase orders in lieu of credit card payments.
  • the purchase order may be validated against an internal or an external database(s) at the billing information screen. Therefore, a user may not place an order without placing a valid purchase order number to the electronic printing system 10.
  • Printer specific files may be generated by the back end system, which will be described herein. These printer specific files may contain information such as what printer to send the file to and inventory codes that may be printer specific such as product, ink color, quantity, etc.
  • the electronic printing system 10 may stage the order (as printer specific files, such as .BEP and image files) so that the order may be retrieved electronically by a remote printing facility.
  • the process server 13d may be configured to process orders received from the client 12 and output files that may be retrieved by a remote printing facility. Additionally, the process server 13d may track ship notifications and may update customers via email when their respective orders have been shipped. The process server 13d may also perform post- authorization of orders.
  • Fig. 8 illustrates the operational flow of the process server 13 d.
  • the process server 13d may retrieve an order that may have been submitted by a client 12 and staged by the electronic printing system 10 in a staging directory resident on a file server 13e or resident in a database(s) 25.
  • the process server 13d may access the staging directory or database(s) and locate a staged order and all associated files that may have been stored by the electronic printing system 10 (Step 70).
  • the files are backed up (Step 71) and printer facility information may be added to the staged order (Step 72). This information may be determined at the time the user is designing the custom print order.
  • the process server 13d may split orders, for example, by printer facility (Step 73).
  • the process server 13d may modify the order in preparation for conversion of the design files to an image file (Step 74). For example, all non-printable information may be removed from the design files.
  • the process server 13d may then determine product and printer facility information from the order file (Step 75), and parse the design files into an image file, such as an EPS file (Step 76), that may be utilized by a printer facility.
  • the image file could be of any image-type format.
  • the parsing operation may be an automated back-end operation.
  • Both spot printing plates and CMYK printing plates may be defined in the image file.
  • Spot printing plates utilize a black background printing plate to which different color ink may be added in order to create a print.
  • the image file may specify a black background plate and a green ink preference or may be defined on a secondary information file.
  • CMYK printing plates may use four separate plates, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, or a composite plate for full color printing.
  • the CMYK printing information may be represented in separate printing plates or as a composite plate. This information may be specified in the image file.
  • the process server 13d may retrieve an order number associated with the order request and may create a printer specific file associated with the information that may not be included in the converted image file, such as product, paper color, media type, etc (Step 77).
  • Printer specific files may include printer facility specific information, such as attributes and the like.
  • the process server 13d may then add the user information to a user database(s) (Step 78) and may update an order database(s) with the user order information (Step 79).
  • the image file may be printed and held for visual inspection so that a hard copy of the image file may be inspected (Steps 79a and 79b).
  • the process server 13d may then backup all the printer specific files (Step 80) and compress them, such as by zipping the printer files, and copy the compressed files to an appropriate location so that the compressed files may be downloaded by a remote or local printer facility (Step 81) or stage to an EDI server on an order by order basis.
  • the process server 13d may also include a backend module for tracking order ship status and for notifying customers of shipped orders. It should be noted that error checking is performed at every stage in the process (Step 82). Those files that result in failures are placed on hold for correction at a later time.
  • the backend module may receive ship notifications (Step 90).
  • remote printing facilities may notify the electronic printing system 10 of shipped orders using several notification methods.
  • the extranet may be an Internet-enabled tool that may allow printing facilities to access a list of open orders.
  • the printing facility may then mark an order as shipped and provide a tracking number for the shipped product. This information may be accessed by the electronic printing system 10.
  • an EDI system 130 may be included to facilitate the transfer of information between the printer facilities and the electronic printing system.
  • an automated printing facility may utilize a computer system resident within the facility that may be connected remotely to the electronic printing system 10 and generate data that may contain order numbers, shipping information, etc. The data may be accessed by the electronic printing system 10.
  • the information may be backed up (Step 91) and the order database(s) may be queried (Step 92) to obtain an order record and any associated data.
  • the order data may then be verified (Step 93) and in the case of an error, the error may be logged and the nonconforming order may be skipped (Step 93a).
  • a user's payment information may be processed, for example, the user's credit card may be post-authorized (Step 94).
  • the order database(s) may then be updated to reflect the shipped and post- authorization status and shipper/carrier and tracking information (Step 95).
  • the customer may then be notified via email of a ship notification (Step 96).

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Un utilisateur d'un système d'impression électronique selon l'invention peut sélectionner des informations, telles que des images électroniques, des informations audiovisuelles, des informations graphiques, ou analogue dans un serveur distant (28) afin d'imprimer sur un support d'impression pouvant être sélectionné. Un utilisateur (12) peut choisir une image à imprimer sur un support d'impression sélectionné par sélection à partir d'un ensemble de modèles de conception pour créer une conception graphique personnalisée. Ces conceptions graphiques personnalisées peuvent être fournies à une imprimante distante ou locale destinée à imprimer. Lorsqu'un utilisateur (12) crée une conception graphique personnalisée, le système d'impression électronique peut stocker des informations de conception personnalisées jusqu'à ce qu'une commande soit passée par l'utilisateur. Un ou plusieurs fichiers de conceptions peuvent décrire la mise en page initiale d'une conception graphique et peuvent ajouter des mises à jour à la mise en page initiale sur la base de la conception personnalisée créée par un utilisateur.
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