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The present system employs, in a preferred embodiment, four principal stations connected by a network. At a first station text information is accepted from documents and the like and is converted into machine readable signals. At a second station graphic information is accepted from documents and th

The present system employs, in a preferred embodiment, four principal stations connected by a network. At a first station text information is accepted from documents and the like and is converted into machine readable signals. At a second station graphic information is accepted from documents and the like and is converted into machine readable signals. At the second station graphic information may be expanded and reduced to enhance the graphic displays. At a third station there resides a major computer system which provides control signals and accepts information from both the first and second stations and formats such information into page forms. At a fourth station there is located a laser printer. The major computer provides, over the network, page formatted information to the laser printer which in turn prints text and graphics of “print shop”quality.

대표청구항 ▼

A system for printing both text and graphics of print shop quality from data processor information, comprising in combination: art-imager means formed to scan at least one graphic display and convert said graphic display into machine readable signals; first data processing means connected to said ar

A system for printing both text and graphics of print shop quality from data processor information, comprising in combination: art-imager means formed to scan at least one graphic display and convert said graphic display into machine readable signals; first data processing means connected to said art-imager means and formed to receive and monitor said machine readable signals whereby a user of said system can determine that said machine readable signals satisfactorily represent said graphic display, said first data processing means further formed to process said machine readable signals to provide signals which represent an enhancement of said graphic display and further formed to store said signals which represent an enhancement of said graphic display; text receiving means formed to receive text information and convert said text information into machine readable signals; second data processing means formed to provide control signals and to receive said machine readable signals and formed to arrange said machine readable signals into page makeup forms; laser printer means formed to receive said machine readable signals and formed to respond to said machine readable signals to print both text and graphic displays; and network means connected to: (1) said first data processing means; (2) said text receiving means; (3) said second data processing means; and (4) said laser printer means, whereby machine readable signals can be transmitted from said first data processing means and from said text receiving means to said second data processing means and whereby said laser printer means is enabled to receive said machine readable signals from said second data processing means to print both text and graphics.