BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 illustrates an approach in which tables and pitch define a sheet for purposes of printing;
FIG. 2 illustrates a concept in accordance with the present invention in which virtual shapes and coordinates provide page demarcation instructions;
FIG. 3 illustrates examples of virtual shapes;
FIG. 4 illustrates the concept of rotation;
FIG. 5 illustrates different panel shapes, including internal shapes designating nonprintable areas;
FIG. 6 illustrates a panel that is larger than a single sheet;
FIG. 7 illustrates two panels that are assigned an order on a page;
FIG. 8 is an organizational diagram showing components of an embodiment of a system in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 9 illustrates rotation of the front, back, inside left and inside right of a tall greeting card when presented for formatting (no rotation) and then for printing (rotation);
FIG. 10 illustrates an alternative to the template of FIG. 9, in which printing is presented for a “wide” greeting card;
FIG. 11 illustrates an example of a sheet of audiotape labels having multiple areas for text input and cutouts;
FIG. 12 illustrates an example of burst labels;
FIG. 13 illustrates an example of CD/DVD labels, spine labels and inserts;
FIG. 14 illustrates an example of mini-media labels having multiple virtual shapes for smartmedia, memory stick, SD card and compact flash labels;
FIG. 15 illustrates a sheet of round labels offset in each row; and
FIG. 16 illustrates one example of printing requirements for a particular printer.
Patent Application
20070234205
