COMBINED HOST AND IMAGING DEVICE MENU INTERFACE

An imaging method enabling spontaneous, single-site implementation of, and control over, the execution of an imaging job employing the combinable native functionalities and related user-accessible controls of plural, currently available, imaging-related instrumentalities. This method features the steps of (a) establishing, with respect to a selected plurality of such instrumentalities, an appropriate instrumentality-intercommunication capability, (b) utilizing that established capability, enabling the suitable presentation, adjacent the location of at least one of such instrumentalities, of an active user combinational interface which, in relation to a user-intended imaging job, provides, via that interface, user-chooseable selection access to different functionalities and control combinations drawn from the availability of all of such instrumentalities' functionalities and controls, and (c) in response to interface designation-invocation by a user of such presented and combined functionalities and controls, executing the imaging job in the context of utilizing all of the so-user-chosen functionalities.