Process for identifying programming conflicts in electronic printing systems

Claim 1

A process for identifying programming conflicts when programming a print job on an image processing system having a document scanner for scanning image bearing documents and converting the document images to image signals, processing means for processing said image signals in accordance with programming instructions to provide print images for making prints, a printer for making prints on print media from said print images, said print media being characterized by a size, and a display screen for displaying job programming selections and instructions, comprising the steps of: a) identifying a first orientation of a document to be scanned for said print job, said document including a print image in a first orientation; b) programming the size of the print media upon which the print image in the first orientation is to be printed; c) displaying a scale representative showing the size of the print media programmed on said screen; d) displaying a scale representative of said print image being programmed superimposed on said print media representation; e) programming instructions for changing the orientation of said print image from the first orientation to a second orientation; f) displaying said print image in the second orientation on said print media representation to show said change in print image orientation, said displayed print image having electronically represented dimensions and said scale representative showing the size of the print media and showing a size of said print image in the second orientation; g) following step e, comparing the size of said print image in the first orientation with a maximum size print image that can be processed by said system; and h) where said comparison indicates that the size of said print image in the first orientation is greater than said maximum size that can be processed by said system, displaying a conflict message on said screen even though said print image is displayed as fitting within said print media; and i) curing a conflict indicated by said conflict message by adjusting said electronically represented dimensions of said displayed print image in the second orientation so that said displayed print image is positioned within said displayed scale representative showing the size of the programmed print media.