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20080250430 | METHOD AND CORRESPONDING APPARATUS FOR CREATION OF PRINT DRIVERS IN A NETWORK - Disclosed are methods of creating drivers for use in a network, the network including computers and devices, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium. The methods include providing a platform, the platform including: 1) a plurality of selectable communication components, each communication component relating to a type of network communication associated with a type of device; 2) a plurality of selectable PDL components, each PDL component relating to a type of PDL associated with a type of device; 3) a user interface component, the user interface component having plurality of selectable user interface elements; 4) a plurality of selectable workflow components, each workflow component relating to a type of workflow to be associated with a device; and 5) a plurality of selectable vertical feature components; determining a type of the device for which the driver is to be created, the device being on the network; and based on the determined type of the device, selecting and activating one of the communication components, one of the PDL components, the user interface component, and one of the workflow components, and instantiating each of the selected components, thereby creating a driver suitable for the determined type of device on the network. | 10-09-2008 |
20090021770 | Printer Driver Apparatus and Methods - Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by receiving a print command for printing from a user, displaying a print user interface including selectable document settings, receiving an indication from the user of selected ones of the documents settings, receiving an indication from the user to save the selected document settings as a document default setting, and controlling printing of the document to print on the printer using the document default setting and the selected document settings. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021771 | Printer Driver Apparatus and Methods - Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by displaying to a user a print user interface including selectable document settings and a default/saved settings control, the default/saved settings control displaying a list of at least one saved default setting and command settings, the at least one saved default setting including selected ones of the document settings, the command settings allowing the user to create additional default settings and to delete the at least one saved default setting, and controlling printing of a document to print on the printer using the saved default setting and the selected ones of the document settings. | 01-22-2009 |
20090021772 | Printer Driver Interface and Methods - Disclosed are methods of controlling printing of a document using a printer driver interface, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments receive a print command to print a document having a document size, display the printer driver interface, the printer driver interface including the document size, display a selectable paper output size on the printer driver interface, the selectable paper output size allowing a user to select a user-selected one of a plurality of different paper output sizes, display user-selectable scaling options on the print driver interface, the scaling options for applying scaling to an image to be printed on the user-selected one of the plurality of different paper output sizes, receive from the user the user-selected one of the paper output sizes, and control printing of the document using the user-selected one of the paper output sizes. | 01-22-2009 |
20090024950 | Printer Driver Interface and Methods - Disclosed are methods of displaying status information in a printer driver interface, and corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments display a printer driver interface, the printer driver interface including selectable document settings, and display a status bar on the printer driver interface, the status bar displaying iconic status indicators, wherein the iconic status indicators include status indicators each conveying status information on a printer consumable. | 01-22-2009 |
20110235090 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINT JOB REDIRECTION - An apparatus and method for print job redirection is disclosed. The method can include providing print job forwarding preference options. The print job forwarding preference options can include options for print job preferences based on printing device capabilities. The method can include receiving print job forwarding preferences at a printing device. The print job forwarding preferences can include at least one mandatory print job preference that specifies a mandatory printing device capability for a specific print job and at least one desirable print job preference that specifies a desirable printing device capability for the specific print job. The method can include determining whether the specific print job requires forwarding from the printing device to another printing device. The method can include forwarding the specific print job for printing if the specific print job requires forwarding. | 09-29-2011 |
20110267642 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISALLOWING DEVICES FOR PRINT DRIVER PRINTING - An apparatus and method for disallowing devices for print driver printing are disclosed. The method can be in an electronic device including a network connection. The method can include providing a multiple printing device print driver installed on the electronic device where the multiple printing device print driver is a single print driver that provides print access to multiple printing devices for the electronic device. The method can include receiving printing device accessibility rules, where the printing device accessibility rules provide rules for determining which printing devices the electronic device is allowed to print to using the multiple printing device print driver. The method can include discovering printing devices proximal to the electronic device using the network connection and using the multiple printing device print driver to generate discovered printing devices. The method can include filtering the discovered printing devices using the multiple printing device print driver based on the printing device accessibility rules to generate at least one filtered discovered printing device that satisfies the printing device accessibility rules. The method can include displaying the at least one filtered discovered printing device on the electronic device. | 11-03-2011 |
20120013921 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPLACING BANNER PAGES WITH DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION IN AN IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for replacing banner pages with document identification information in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a request from a user to cease including a banner page with each printed document, the banner page being separate page containing document identification information, prompting the user to enter document identification information to be printed on the document, receiving the document identification information from the user, receiving a request from the user to print a document, and printing the document with document identification information on one or more pages of the document. | 01-19-2012 |
20120218579 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING AND MANAGING PASSCODES ACROSS MULTIPLE PRINTING DEVICE DRIVERS - An apparatus and method share and manage passcodes across multiple printing device drivers. The method can include providing, on the electronic device, a first printing device driver for a first printing device and a second printing device driver for a second printing device. The first printing device driver and the second printing device driver can access a common secure printing device passcode storage location for secure printing device passcodes. The method can include storing at least one secure printing device passcode in the common secure printing device passcode storage location. The method can include displaying secure print information to the user in response to receiving a secure print input. The method can include sending a secure printing device passcode over the network interface to a printing device to securely print the document. | 08-30-2012 |
20120218580 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTATION OF APPLICATION PRINTING NOTES FOR A PRINTER DRIVER - An apparatus and method present application printing notes for a printer driver. The method can be performed in an electronic device including a network interface. The method can include receiving a print driver request. The method can include obtaining an application identifier corresponding to the print driver request. The application identifier can identify a particular application for a print job. The method can include sending an application printing notes query to an application printing notes repository to access application printing notes corresponding to the application identifier. The method can include displaying information corresponding to the application printing notes. | 08-30-2012 |
20120281251 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING PRINTER DRIVERS FOR MULTIPLE PRINTING DEVICES - The disclosure relates to a computerized method and system for implementing a multi-tiered approach to defining printer driver configuration settings. A printer driver configuration management utility allows establishing settings for multiple printer drivers and multiple printing devices with a single multi-tiered configuration file. In a network environment the configuration file is stored in a location accessible by a client prior to utilizing a printer. A single multi-tiered configuration file makes it possible to pre-configure and post-configure multiple printer drivers. Compatible installed printer drivers check for the configuration file and update settings accordingly. Each setting may have rules of behavior such as a default value, enforced default value, value setting lock and disallowance of a value. An alternate value, such as a secondary value, can be deferred to when a primary setting value is not supported for a particular driver. | 11-08-2012 |
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20080196519 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A CONNECTION SENSING APPARATUS - An apparatus and method are provided for a plug connector sensing apparatus for determining whether a transmission line is present within a receptacle. A reprographic printing system including this apparatus is disclosed. The method of using this plug sensing apparatus comprises determining, with the plug connector sensor, whether the plug connector is present within the receptacle and determining, with a separate signal detector, whether a signal is being communicated through the transmission line. | 08-21-2008 |
20080239365 | Masking of text in document reproduction - An apparatus for masking text in a rendered copy of an original document includes a text modification system which is configured to receive a print job from an application and modify the print job in accordance with a print job description, whereby when rendered on an output device, a selected text element is masked. A user interface is configured to receive instructions from a user to build the print job description including instructions for selecting text elements to be masked. | 10-02-2008 |
20100097630 | PRINTER DRIVER WITH CONTEXT BASED RESTRICTIONS - According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by receiving a print command for printing from a user, and displaying a print user interface including selectable document settings and context based restrictions. Context based restrictions allows a system administrator to flexibly manage users access to a device features and capabilities. A variety of restrictions can be specified including time-based, capacity-based, and application-based. This invention also prevents the user from submitting a job with a restricted feature. Advantages are a clear, understandable presentation of restrictions to the user so the user knows what features the user cannot access. | 04-22-2010 |
20120069366 | Method and apparatus to provide enhanced printing for newly launched devices in a universal printer driver - A system for interfacing a universal print driver with a print device after the universal print driver is deployed. The system includes a universal print driver interfaced with a network and at least one associated print device. A repository stores a set of device compatibility packs (DCPs) for each of the at least one associated print device interfaced with the universal print driver. The universal print driver is adapted to search the repository for a DCP if the associated print device is unsupported by the print driver. | 03-22-2012 |
20130148145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO BIND PRINT TICKETS TO PRINT JOBS FOR CLOUD AND FOLLOW ME PRINTING WORKFLOWCROSS - A system for managing job tickets includes a first device that is in communication with a server. The first device is adapted to receive as input job parameters for managing a print job. The image forming device is further adapted to encode the job parameters into a job ticket. The first device is further adapted to send the job ticket to the server. The server is adapted to store the job ticket in a folder and obtain the job ticket from the folder when a request for a print job is received at the server. The server is further adapted to apply the job ticket to the print job and transmit a print file including the print job and the job ticket to an image forming device when a print job request is received. | 06-13-2013 |
20140240735 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A PRINTER DRIVER TO CREATE AND APPLY BARCODES - Methods and systems for using a printer driver to create and manage barcodes are provided. The printer driver can apply barcodes to printed copies of documents without modifying the documents in their original form. The printer driver can perform methods that include receiving print data descriptive of a document to be printed, selecting a barcode to be embedded, embedding the barcode in the print data to generate modified print data, generating print commands based on the modified print data, and transmitting the print commands to an output device, where the output device generates a printed copy of the document that includes the barcode. The barcode can include an n-dimensional barcode such as a QR code. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240740 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DISPLAYING A PRINTER DRIVER USER INTERFACE - An embodiment is a method of presenting options for printing a document. A computing system receives data descriptive of a document to be printed. The computing system identifies one or more preview thumbnail profiles indicative of graphical parameters for rendering a portion of the document to be printed into preview thumbnail images. The computing system renders a portion of the document to be printed, based at least in part on the graphical parameters of the one or more preview thumbnail profiles, to generate one or more preview thumbnail images. The computing system displays the one or more preview thumbnail images on a printer driver user interface in conjunction with one or more printing options. The preview thumbnail images display predicted appearances of the portion of the document corresponding to the printing options. | 08-28-2014 |