Corrugator control information on a box liner

Abstract

In one example, a printing system includes a print engine and a print engine controller operatively connected to the print engine to print, on a single substrate web, graphics for multiple different layouts of corrugated boxes to be lined with the web and machine readable images representing corrugator control information for making the multiple different layouts.

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         7 . A non-transitory processor readable medium having image data thereon representing machine readable images with corrugator control information for making corrugated boxes with multiple different layouts using a continuous web of a box liner material in a single roll for laminating to a flute in a corrugator. 
     
     
         8 . The medium of  claim 7 , having image data thereon representing a graphic for each box to be printed on the continuous web of the box liner material. 
     
     
         9 . The medium of  claim 7 , where each machine readable image includes at least one of:
 an identification that uniquely identifies a single box or single group of boxes to a corrugator;   an identification that associates a single box or single group of boxes with a corrugator plan;   an indication of a location of the a single box or single group of boxes on a printed web of the box liner material; and   an instruction to cut and/or crease a single box or single group of boxes on a printed web of the box liner material.   
     
     
         10 . The medium of  claim 9 , where:
 the graphic includes multiple different graphics each for a single box or a single group of boxes different from any other box or group of boxes on the continuous web of the box liner material; and   the corrugator control information includes multiple single sets of corrugator control information each corresponding to the graphic for a single box different from any other box on the continuous web of the box liner material.   
     
     
         11 . A liner for making corrugated boxes in which the liner is laminated to a flute in a corrugator, comprising a continuous web of a liner material in a single roll printed with a graphic for multiple different layouts of corrugated boxes and with multiple different machine readable images representing corrugator control information for making the multiple different layouts of corrugated boxes. 
     
     
         12 . The liner of  claim 11 , where each machine readable image includes an identification that uniquely identifies a single box or a single group of boxes to a corrugator. 
     
     
         13 . The liner of  claim 11 , where each machine readable image includes an identification that associates a single box or a single group of boxes with a corrugation plan. 
     
     
         14 . The liner of  claim 11 , where each machine readable image includes instructions to cut and crease a single box or single group of boxes on the printed web. 
     
     
         15 . The liner of  claim 11 , where the multiple different layouts include different size and/or shape boxes with the same or different graphics. Preliminary Amendment Serial No.