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Космические корабли и станции, автоматические КА и методы их проектирования, бортовые комплексы управления, системы и средства жизнеобеспечения, особенности технологии производства ракетно-космических систем

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19-01-2012 дата публикации

Network Printer

Номер: US20120013942A1
Принадлежит: Murata Machinery Ltd

A network printer includes a communication unit for carrying out transmission/reception of data via a network and a recording unit for printing out received print data. The communication unit includes a priority level determination unit, when second print data is accepted during reception of first print data, for determining priority between the first and second print data, and a first persistent connection control unit for executing a persistent connection control that prohibits a transmission source of print data determined as lower priority data from transmitting the print data while a session is being connected with the transmission source, and for permitting a transmission source of print data determined as higher priority data to transmit the print data.

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26-01-2012 дата публикации

Management system, image forming apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

Номер: US20120019851A1
Автор: Satoshi Takazawa
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A management system that can appropriately manage a list of functions that can be provided by an image forming apparatus configured to provide a function to a client apparatus by utilizing a function provided by a function provision apparatus. An image forming apparatus is configured, if the function list transmission request is received from the management apparatus, to issue an inquiry, to a function provision apparatus which provides a part of the functions provided by the image forming apparatus to the client apparatus to the image forming apparatus, about operation of the function, and if a reply to the inquiry is received from the function provision apparatus, configured to generate and transmit to the management apparatus a function list of functions provided by the image forming apparatus to the client apparatus according to information about a function, among the functions provided by the function provision apparatus included in the reply, which can be provided to the image forming apparatus and according to information about the function that can be provided by the image forming apparatus to the client apparatus. The management apparatus is configured to display the function list when the function list is received from the image forming apparatus.

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26-01-2012 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus, method of controlling the same, and image processing apparatus

Номер: US20120019860A1
Автор: Satoko Fujiwara
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that performs image formation on the basis of a plurality of pieces of image data for different colors, the pieces of the image data being generated by a higher-level device; a plurality of data storage units that receive the respective pieces of the image data transferred from the higher-level device via a plurality of first transfer paths corresponding to the respective pieces of the image data, and store therein the respective pieces of the image data; and a control unit that receives control information, which is used for controlling the image formation, from the higher-level device via a second transfer path and controls the data storage units on the basis of the control information so that the data storage units receive and storage therein the respective pieces of the image data transferred from the higher-level device.

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09-02-2012 дата публикации

Terminal device

Номер: US20120033261A1
Автор: Shinsuke Kaigawa
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

A terminal device may be configured to perform a first sending process for sending a first type of data to an external device. The terminal device may be configured to perform a second sending process for sending a second type of data to the external device. The terminal device may be configured to measure time related to a period of duration of the second sending process. The terminal device may continues to perform the first sending process until sending all of the first type of data is completed. The terminal device may continue to perform the second sending process until the time elapses first predetermined time and cancel to perform the second sending process when the time elapses the first predetermined time even if sending all of the second type of data has not been completed.

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09-02-2012 дата публикации

Controlling device mounted on portable type terminal device

Номер: US20120033262A1
Автор: Kunihiko Sakurai
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

A portable type terminal device may switch between a first state in which a specific image is shown in a display such that an up-down direction of the specific image is along a first direction, and a second state in which the specific image is shown in the display such that the up-down direction of the specific image is along a second direction. A controlling device mounted on the portable type terminal device may create print data for causing a printer to perform a first type of a print in both of a first case where a print of the specific image is instructed in the first state and a second case where the print of the specific image is instructed in the second state. In the first type of the print, the left-right direction of the specific image may be along a short side of a print medium.

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01-03-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus and method for environmental analysis

Номер: US20120053885A1
Автор: Kazunori Kato
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An information processing apparatus counts as a result the number of sheets output by an image forming apparatus with reference to collected job history information and obtains the amount of electric power consumed by the image forming apparatus based on the job history information. When the information processing apparatus generates display data required to display a screen indicating an emission amount of greenhouse effect gases, the information processing apparatus analyzes the number of sheets that is output if a saving setting is applied to a job corresponding to a history included in the job history information. The information processing apparatus generates the display data required to display the screen in such a way as to indicate an emission amount of the greenhouse effect gas obtained based on the analyzed number of sheets.

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15-03-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and storage medium

Номер: US20120062913A1
Автор: Takashi Yabe
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A printer according to the present invention includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to be able to process variable data printing (VDP) data including reusable data which is repeatedly utilized in a plurality of pages, and variable data which is not repeatedly utilized, to generate a plurality of intermediate language data from the reusable data, according to a plurality of settings for color processing, and to select intermediate language data to be used when generating a bitmap image, from the plurality of intermediate language data generated by a generation unit, and a RIP unit configured to generate a bitmap image by performing RIP-processing on the selected intermediate language data.

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15-03-2012 дата публикации

Content placement

Номер: US20120066589A1
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

A content placement method includes electronically identifying a placeholder image in an electronic document. The placeholder defines a copy hole. The placeholder image is decoded to discern content selection data. The content selection data is processed to identify content that is inserted into the copy hole.

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22-03-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus to provide enhanced printing for newly launched devices in a universal printer driver

Номер: US20120069366A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

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.

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22-03-2012 дата публикации

Printing apparatus, printing system, and method of controlling printing apparatus

Номер: US20120069391A1
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

A printing apparatus that performs a printing process related to a print job including one print data item or a plurality of print data items and a series of process commands transmitted from a host apparatus and that is connected to another printing apparatus via a network, the printing apparatus including a status information acquiring unit that acquires status information of the printing apparatus when a status information transmission command is received as the process command transmitted from the host apparatus; a determining unit that synthetically determines whether the printing process can be continuously performed, on the basis of the status information of the printing apparatus and the status information of another printing apparatus connected to the printing apparatus via the network, when the status information of the printing apparatus acquired by the status information acquiring unit indicates an error; and a communication processing unit that transmits integrated status information corresponding to the determination result of the determining unit to the host apparatus.

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29-03-2012 дата публикации

Mobile device, program of mobile device, and method for controlling mobile device

Номер: US20120075672A1
Автор: Minoru Oishi
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

A computer-readable recording device may store a computer program including instructions for causing a computer of a mobile device to operate as: (1) a first storing controlling module that causes a storing unit to store one or more first information for identifying one or more candidate devices, the one or more first information being received from a wireless network by a communication unit, (2) a sending controlling module that selects one candidate device as a temporarily selected candidate device from among the one or more candidate devices identified by the one or more first information, and controls the communication unit such that the communication unit sends a first instruction to the temporarily selected candidate device, and (3) a communication controlling module that controls the communication unit such that the communication unit communicates with the temporarily selected candidate device in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied.

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05-04-2012 дата публикации

Casino print system and corresponding methods

Номер: US20120081717A1
Принадлежит: Transact Technologies Inc

Systems and methods for providing customized coupons in a casino gaming environment are provided. A printer resident in a gaming machine is provided and has at least one communication port for communication external to the gaming machine. A coupon layout generator may also be provided for creating customized coupons. A server manager may be provided for distributing the customized coupons to one or more targeted recipients. A server port device may be provided for connecting the server manager to the communication port of the printer and for converting an Ethernet signal from the server manager to a serial signal recognizable by the printer. With such a system, an IP address may be assigned to the server port device. The IP address, together with player identification information, is used by the server manager to determine appropriate coupons for distribution to the gaming machine.

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05-04-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus to upgrade driver of image forming apparatus

Номер: US20120081751A1
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

A method and apparatus to upgrade a driver of an image forming apparatus. The method includes accessing a website having a website driver program useable by the image forming apparatus, converting a class mode of the image forming apparatus from an original class mode to a predetermined class mode that is different from the original class mode, comparing a driver program stored in the image forming apparatus with the website driver program on the website, and downloading the website driver program from the website and storing the website driver program in the image forming apparatus when the website driver program is a later version than the stored driver program.

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12-04-2012 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus and scanned data process method

Номер: US20120086981A1
Принадлежит: Individual

An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus.

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19-04-2012 дата публикации

Selectable print job and printer management

Номер: US20120092702A1
Автор: Eustace P. Isidore
Принадлежит: Individual

One or more methods, systems and computer program products enables selectable management and queuing of print jobs across multiple available printers available to a device generating the print job. One or more embodiments present a smart print queue with document level view and printer-level transfer of queued print jobs.

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19-04-2012 дата публикации

Job execution management apparatus, job execution apparatus, job execution system and computer-readable medium

Номер: US20120092704A1
Автор: Yukio Kumazawa
Принадлежит: Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

A job execution apparatus includes a partial job allocation processing section and a partial job execution instruction section. The partial job allocation processing section allocates each partial job formed by segmenting a received job to a data processing apparatus capable of executing the partial job. The partial job execution instruction section instructs the data processing apparatus to execute the partial job. The partial job allocation processing section reallocates a partial job, which execution was not completed by the data processing apparatus to which the partial job is allocated until a preset end time, to a data processing apparatus capable of executing the unfinished partial job, other than the data processing apparatus to which the unfinished partial job is allocated. The partial job execution instruction section transmits an instruction for executing the unfinished partial job to the reallocated data processing apparatus.

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19-04-2012 дата публикации

Printing data delivery apparatus, printing data delivery system, and printing apparatus

Номер: US20120092713A1
Автор: Takahiro Hagiwara
Принадлежит: Toshiba Corp, Toshiba TEC Corp

A printing data delivery apparatus includes: a printing-data receiving section configured to receive printing data; a data storing section configured to extract print setting information from the received printing data and store the print setting information; a printing-request receiving section configured to receive a printing job request from a printing apparatus; a reuse determining section configured to perform first determination for determining whether the printing apparatus is an apparatus that performs printing with erasable toner or an apparatus that performs printing with unerasable toner, perform second determination for determining whether the printing data can be printed with the erasable toner, and perform first generation for giving, to the print setting information, information indicating whether it is appropriate to print the printing data in the printing apparatus and generating a printing job; and a printing-data delivery section configured to transmit the printing job to the printing apparatus.

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03-05-2012 дата публикации

Image formation apparatus and image formation system using the same

Номер: US20120105887A1
Автор: Fumihito OSAKI
Принадлежит: Oki Data Corp

An image formation apparatus configured to execute print processing, includes an information storage configured to store print-limit information and notification-destination information set for each user. The print-limit information includes at least one of a print condition and a limit on a printable amount. A user-information acquisition unit is configured to acquire print-instructing-user information, which is information on a print-instructing user instructing a print-executing user to execute printing. An information-acquisition unit is configured to acquire, from the information storage, the print-limit information and the notification-destination information corresponding to the print-instructing-user information acquired by the user-information acquisition unit, and a notification unit is configured to notify the print-instructing user of a result of print control by the print controller, based on the notification-destination information acquired by the information-acquisition unit.

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03-05-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus and computer readable medium

Номер: US20120105895A1
Автор: Takashi Ikemoto
Принадлежит: Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

An information processing apparatus includes an allowable output amount storage unit that stores allowable output amounts of respective combinations of a user and a predetermined totalization period; a total output amount recording unit that records total output amounts of the respective combinations of a user and a predetermined totalization period; and a processing unit that receives, from a user, an instruction that designates image forming information and an instruction to perform image formation on the basis of the designated image forming information, and performs image-formation-related processing for the designated image forming information if a value obtained by adding together an output amount of the image-formation-instructed image forming information, a sum of total output amounts of the user, and a sum of output amounts of pieces of particular image forming information specified by the user is smaller than or equal to an allowable output amount of the user.

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03-05-2012 дата публикации

Printing apparatus

Номер: US20120107030A1
Автор: Keigo GOTO
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

A printing apparatus includes: a receiving section which receives a print data from the external apparatus; a storage section in which the print data received by the receiving section is stored; an input section which receives from a user a print instruction for printing based on the print data stored in the storage section; a print section which performs the printing of the image on the recording medium based on the print data stored in the storage section in a case that the input section receives the print instruction from the user; and a controller which controls the storage section and which calculates and sets for the print data stored in the storage section a storage time-period within which the print data is storable in the storage section.

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24-05-2012 дата публикации

Print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium

Номер: US20120127499A1
Автор: Keiichi Takashima
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A print control apparatus may include a determination unit, a division unit, and a rearrangement unit to process print data impositioned by an application program. The determination unit determines whether at least one of an impositioned appearance indicating an arrangement of logical pages in respective physical pages of the impositioned print data, and a print output attribute, which is an attribute of an output of the impositioned print data, satisfies a division condition set in advance. If the determining unit determines that the impositioned appearance or the print output attribute satisfies the division condition, the division unit divides the impositioned print data in logical-page unit. The rearrangement unit rearranges divided logical pages in an order according to the impositioned appearance. If neither the impositioned appearance nor the print output attribute satisfies the division condition, the impositioned print data is prevented from being divided in logical-page unit.

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24-05-2012 дата публикации

Printing system, information processing apparatus, printing method, and program

Номер: US20120127519A1
Автор: Hiroshi Kikuchi
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A client PC generates and spools data for print according to a user's printing operation, and generates identification information for identifying itself from its own IP address to present it to the user. When the identification information is input in a multifunction peripheral, the multifunction peripheral converts the identification information into an IP address, and makes a request for transmission of print data to a client PC indicated by the IP address. In response to the request, the client PC generates print data using the spooled data and transmits the print data to the multifunction peripheral. The multifunction peripheral receives and prints the print data.

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24-05-2012 дата публикации

Printer control apparatus, printing method and printing system

Номер: US20120127526A1
Принадлежит: Seiko Epson Corp

Provided is a printer driver including: a first function which generates a first printing job which prints a document; a second function which generates a second printing job which prints information on the first printing job; a third function which outputs the second printing job; a fourth function which outputs the first printing job; a fifth function which determines whether or not a next to-be-printed document is present; a function which repeats the first function to the fifth function in the case where it is determined that the next to-be-printed document is present by the fifth function; and a function which performs the third function in the case where it is determined that the next to-be-printed document is absent by the fifth function.

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31-05-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, control method, and computer-readable storage medium

Номер: US20120133976A1
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An information processing apparatus including a hot folder, comprises: a first determination unit configured to determine whether print processing of the job data stored in the hot folder is executable; a printing unit configured to print the job data determined to be executable; a second determination unit configured to determine whether the printing unit has normally ended the print processing of the job data; a specifying unit configured to specify outline information of a status of the print processing of the job data; an acquisition unit configured to acquire detailed information of the status of the print processing of the job data; and a creation unit configured to create a printing status notification file including the outline information of the status of the print processing of the job data specified and the detailed information of the status of the print processing of the job data acquired.

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07-06-2012 дата публикации

Image forming system, prognosis criterion setting apparatus, prognosis apparatus, image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

Номер: US20120140262A1
Автор: Koki Uwatoko
Принадлежит: Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

An image forming system includes first and second generation units, a setting unit, and a prognosis unit. For a monitoring item whose detection values, being detected during an image forming operation in an image forming apparatus in which a trouble occurred within a predetermined time period after an operating condition was changed, were changed to an abnormal state, the first generation unit generates characteristic information indicating a variation state of the detection values. The setting unit sets criterion information to predict occurrence of a trouble, based on the generated characteristic information. The second generation unit generates, for the monitoring item corresponding to the set criterion information, characteristic information indicating a variation state of detection values in a target image forming apparatus. The prognosis unit predicts whether a trouble occurs after the operating condition is changed, based on a difference between the set criterion information and the characteristic information generated.

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07-06-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for scheduled delivery of content

Номер: US20120140265A1
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

In one embodiment, source content is obtained from a computing system. A request is received, the request for scheduled automatic delivery, without user intervention, of subscribed-for content to a web-enabled printer. The subscribed-for content comprises at least a portion of the source content. A protocol for printing of the subscribed-for content is established based at least in part on information from the request and data stored in a memory. The subscribed-for content is caused to be formatted in accordance with the protocol. The subscribed-for content is caused to be obtained by the printer.

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14-06-2012 дата публикации

Printing apparatus, print control system, and method for controlling print control system

Номер: US20120148323A1
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A host computer transmits a plurality of print data pieces to which an identical password is added to a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a unit configured to receive and store one of the transmitted plurality of print data pieces, an operation unit configured to accept input of a password from a user, an image formation unit configured to perform, when the password input from the user and the password added to the stored print data match each other, image formation based on the print data to which the identical password to the input password is added, and a control unit configured to cause, when it receives the remaining one of the transmitted plurality of print data pieces after the image formation has been performed, the image formation unit to perform the image formation based on the remaining print data without making the user input the password again.

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12-07-2012 дата публикации

Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and computer-readable storage medium

Номер: US20120176645A1
Автор: Kazuyuki Saito
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A printing control apparatus controls an order of processing executed by a printing apparatus for print jobs included in a first print job group and print jobs included in a second print job group. A detection unit detects a first and second print job included in the first print job group, wherein the second print job has common paper information with the first print job. A control unit arranges processing orders of the detected first and second print jobs to be successive to each other, and arranges a processing order, within the second print job group, of a third print job, which is included in the second print job group and is grouped by a predetermined category together with the first print job, to be equivalent to the processing order of the first print job within the first print job group.

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02-08-2012 дата публикации

Print job processing in an automated document factory environment

Номер: US20120194849A1
Принадлежит: Ricoh Production Print Solutions LLC

The systems and methods presented herein provide for processing print jobs in an Automated Document Factory (ADF) system. More specifically, these embodiments provide for the selected removal of certain documents after processing of the print job has already initiated (e.g., printing, sorting, inserting, etc.). In one embodiment, a method of processing print jobs through the ADF system includes receiving a print job from a host system via the ADF system. The print job comprises a plurality of documents. The method also includes initiating printing of the documents in the print job, and processing an instruction that identifies at least one document in the print job for removal after initiating printing of the print job. The method also includes removing the at least one document from the print job based on the instruction and processing the remaining documents in the print job through the ADF.

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16-08-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for providing a three-dimensional preview of a finished document

Номер: US20120206439A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

A method and system for providing three-dimensional preview of a finished document based on a key feature analysis. The document can be analyzed by a document analysis algorithm configured in association with a document visualization module in order to identify a number of key features associated with the document. A viewing script can be created with respect to the key features of the document in order to drive a visualization engine. A document-specific visual animation of the key features can be visually displayed based on the viewing script at a user interface in order to preview the finished document. A list of critical features with respect to the document can be selected and previewed by a user via a set of media controls displayed at the user interface.

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16-08-2012 дата публикации

Language monitor application launch

Номер: US20120206748A1
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

An apparatus and method use a language monitor of a print driver to identify a print job related application external to the print driver and to direct one or more processors to launch the print job related application.

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16-08-2012 дата публикации

System and method to detect printing devices with high incident rates

Номер: US20120209565A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

Method and systems of identifying a printing device having an exceptional incident rate among a plurality of printing devices are disclosed. For each of a plurality of printing devices, a processor receiving a printing device model, a print volume, and an incident count that includes a number of incidents occurring within a particular time frame. The processor determines a generalized linear regression model of the incident counts for each printing device model and also determines a predicted incident count for each printing device model using the generalized regression model. The processor determines a residual value for each printing device between the incident count for the printing device and the predicted incident count for the printing device model associated with the printing device. The processor identifies one or more printing devices having a residual value exceeding a threshold value.

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30-08-2012 дата публикации

Job ticket translation in a print shop architecture

Номер: US20120218577A1
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

Methods and systems are disclosed to provide conversions from job tickets submitted by clients to normalized tickets in a ticket standard used by the print shop. In one embodiment, a system receives a plurality of print jobs submitted by clients to a print shop. For each of the print jobs, the system identifies extension elements that describe services requested from the print shop. The extension elements are extensions to a job ticket standard used by the print shop. The system maps the extension elements to corresponding standard elements defined in the job ticket standard to generate normalized job tickets for the print shop. The system then transmits the normalized job tickets to a system of the print shop for generating workflows for the print jobs based on the normalized job tickets.

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30-08-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for sharing and managing passcodes across multiple printing device drivers

Номер: US20120218579A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

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.

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30-08-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, method for controlling same

Номер: US20120221806A1
Автор: Hiromasa Kawasaki
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An information processing apparatus processes data to be processed while accessing data to be processed that is stored in a memory or a HDD. The information processing apparatus determines the process content and calculates the access number to the HDD based on the determined process content and the content of data to be processed. The information processing apparatus also decides to store data to be processed in the memory when the access number is more than or equal to a threshold value. The information processing apparatus decides to store data to be processed in the HDD when the access number is less than the threshold value.

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06-09-2012 дата публикации

Printing apparatus, printing control method, and storage medium

Номер: US20120224192A1
Автор: Hitoshi Osaka
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A printing apparatus that is configured to, in order to efficiently execute printing by suitably skipping a page that is not to be printed, receive information about an attribute of paper to be skipped without printing, and based on information about the received attribute, print a page that does not use paper having the attribute and skip printing of a page that uses paper having the attribute.

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06-09-2012 дата публикации

Image forming device and control method

Номер: US20120224206A1

An image forming device that operates in one of power-saving mode and normal mode by switching therebetween comprises: an automatic response unit configured to perform control to switch from the power-saving mode to the normal mode in accordance with a protocol on which a request issued by an information terminal device is based; an analysis unit configured to analyze whether or not the information terminal device has issued a request based on a protocol that requires the switching from the power-saving mode to the normal mode without a job execution; a message generation unit configured to, when the result of the analysis by the analysis unit is affirmative, generate a message for causing the information terminal device to change the protocol; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated message.

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13-09-2012 дата публикации

Wireless synchronization of data and software components over a wireless network compatible to ieee802.11 standard(s) for mobile devices

Номер: US20120230315A1
Принадлежит: Flexiworld Technologies Inc

Wireless synchronization of data and software components over IEEE802.11 standard(s) are herein disclosed and enabled. An information apparatus, which includes a wireless communication unit compatible with IEEE802.11, may access a wireless local area network (WLAN). To setup the wireless synchronization, the user connects the information apparatus to a wireless output device over a wired connection (e.g., USB) and selects the wireless output device. Information associated with the wireless output device is saved in the mobile information apparatus for enabling wireless synchronization. Next, the user connects the mobile information apparatus to the WLAN, and, depending on the availability of the wireless output device in the network, the information apparatus may lock a wireless connection to the wireless output device for wireless synchronization. A client application in the mobile information apparatus and output controller software in the wireless output device may be required to facilitate the wireless synchronization over the WLAN.

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20-09-2012 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

Номер: US20120236350A1
Автор: Naoki Otsuka
Принадлежит: Oki Data Corp

An image forming apparatus includes a communication part that performs communication with an external device; an image processing part that processes image data that is received by the communication part and that is for forming an image; an image forming part that forms an image of the image data processed in the image processing part; and a power supply controller that controls power supplied to the communication part, the image processing part, or the image forming part. The communication part includes a memory part that stores status information of the image forming apparatus, and a server part that performs communication with the external device, and the power supply controller supplies power to only the communication part in a power saving mode during a standby period, and the server part responds to a status information reference request and a status information update request from the external device.

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27-09-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

Номер: US20120243036A1
Принадлежит: Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

An image processing apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a screen update request including identification information of a screen and a job start request including identification information of a job; a database that defines a relationship between the identification information of the screen, the identification information of the job, and a polling interval corresponding to a degree of association between the screen and the job; a determining unit that determines the polling interval corresponding to the degree of association between the screen and the job on the basis of the identification information of the screen and the identification information of the job received by the receiving unit and the database; and a transmitting unit that incorporates information of the determined polling interval into screen data and transmits the incorporated screen data to an external apparatus that outputs the screen update request.

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27-09-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program

Номер: US20120243037A1
Принадлежит: Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

An image processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a display request including a first external apparatus identification information and screen identification information; a storage unit storing external apparatus screen information; an update unit updating the first external apparatus screen information whenever the display request is acquired; a determining unit determining a polling interval for a first external apparatus on the basis of the stored external apparatus screen information; and a transmitting unit transmitting, to the first external apparatus, screen data which includes information of the determined polling interval, wherein, when a second external apparatus identification information item corresponding to the same screen identification information as that in the display request is stored in the storage unit, the determining unit determines the polling interval for the first external apparatus to be less than that for a second external apparatus indicated by the second external apparatus identification information item.

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04-10-2012 дата публикации

Storage Medium Storing Printer Driver and Information Processing Apparatus

Номер: US20120250084A1
Автор: Mareyuki Murata
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

A storage medium stores a printer driver that controls an information processing apparatus. The printer driver, when executed, causes the information processing apparatus to provide an application with setting values corresponding to options for an item for specifying a print setting and a driver setting option value corresponding to a driver setting option that indicates that the item is allowed to be specified in a driver-side input interface, and receive a result of the selected option in an application-side setting process. When the result received is the driver setting option, display a setting value as the setting value for the item and allowing the value for the item to be changed through the driver-side input interface. When the result received is the option other than the driver setting option, display a setting value that corresponds to the option selected in the application-side setting process as the value for the item.

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01-11-2012 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof

Номер: US20120274959A1
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Disclosed are an image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof. The image forming method includes: selecting at least one among plural scanning profiles needed for color management at a scanning operation of a document and plural printing profiles needed for the color management at a printing operation of the document according to a user's input; and generating a printing image based on the selected scanning and printing profiles and a preset scanning or printing profile.

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01-11-2012 дата публикации

Image processing system, image processing apparatus and server in the image processing system, and data control method and storage medium storing program thereof

Номер: US20120275647A1
Автор: Hanae Gabe
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

When an image processing apparatus transmits information about image data stored therein to a server, the server determines whether or not the image data contains confidential information, and transmits the determination result to the image processing apparatus. When the image processing apparatus receives, from the server, determination result indicating whether or not the image data contains confidential information, then if the determination result indicates that the image data contains specific information, the image processing apparatus limits use of the image data.

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08-11-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for configuring printer drivers for multiple printing devices

Номер: US20120281251A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

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.

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22-11-2012 дата публикации

Printing apparatus, printing method, printing system, and computer readable medium

Номер: US20120293816A1
Автор: Tomohiko Bito
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

A printing apparatus comprises: a plurality of analysis units configured to correspond respectively to PDL types indicating a plurality of types of page description languages; a unit configured to determine one of the plurality of analysis units to be used for analysis processing, based on a PDL type of the PDL data; a unit configured, in a case where analysis processing is performed using the determined analysis unit and if the number of times that a specific command has been detected in a predetermined range of the PDL data exceeds a predetermined threshold value, to suspend the analysis processing for the PDL data and to issue an alert; a unit configured, after an alert has been issued, to accept an instruction indicating whether to continue or cancel the analysis processing for the PDL data.

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22-11-2012 дата публикации

Information processing system, information processing device, and relay server

Номер: US20120293819A1
Автор: Takayuki Doui

An information processing system includes an information processing device, an image forming device, an authentication server performing authentication of a user and a relay server receiving an authentication request from the image forming device and establishing data communication with the authentication server. The information processing device attaches authentication information set in advance in a printer driver to the print job and sends to the image forming device, while sending user information indicating that the user is successfully authenticated in the authentication server to the relay server. The relay server identifies the user information received from the information processing device based on the authentication information included in the received the authentication request and establishes data communication with the authentication server based on the identified user information, thereby verifying if the user is a registered user and sending the response to the authentication request to the image forming device.

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22-11-2012 дата публикации

System and method for printer emulation

Номер: US20120293823A1

A system and method are provided for accurately emulating a printer on a computing device that is not connected to the printer. The computing device is provided with firmware and programming code that interfaces with the firmware for a customized printing operation. The firmware is provided with the printer and the computing device. The programming code is provided with the computing device, and the computing device runs the programming code. The programming code interfaces with the firmware provided with the computing device and causes the computing device to emulate the printer, when the printer runs the programming code. The computing device and the printer are not connected.

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22-11-2012 дата публикации

Systems and methods for providing multiple images

Номер: US20120293826A1
Автор: Srivastava Saurabh
Принадлежит: Hewlett Packard Development Co LP

One example provides a network system for providing multiple images. The network system comprises a system comprising a memory for storing computer executable instructions and a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions can comprise a server. The server can receive a print message from an origin printer that includes a multi-image file that stores a plurality of images. The server can generate a set of commands for printing the plurality of images in a protocol associated with a destination printer identified in the print message.

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06-12-2012 дата публикации

Printer identification using custom sounds

Номер: US20120307289A1
Автор: Todd W. Ritland
Принадлежит: Apple Inc

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of a printing system. The system includes a print server and a printer. The print server may identify a custom sound associated with a user of the printing system and provide the custom sound to the printer. The printer may then generate the custom sound to facilitate identification of the printer by the user. For example, the printer may generate the custom sound during receipt of a print job by the printer, completion of the print job, a job error associated with the print job, and/or use of the printing system by the user.

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06-12-2012 дата публикации

Setting value management apparatus and management method thereof

Номер: US20120311311A1
Автор: Hideo Asahara
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

Virtual setting values for a specific image forming apparatus are generated using a model-dependent setting value schema which defines a schema of model-dependent setting values in each of a plurality of image forming apparatuses and tenant setting values required to commonly set setting values for the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The virtual setting values are held and managed.

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20-12-2012 дата публикации

Non-transitory printing control program product, printing control apparatus, and printing system

Номер: US20120320420A1
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

A non-transitory printing control program product is disclosed. The printing control program product causes a computer to function as a printing data generating unit which generates printing data for normal printing and printing data for trial printing such that the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing are printed by the same printing apparatus, the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing being generated from the same submitted manuscript data; and a printing data management unit which receives the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing and which causes the same printing apparatus to print the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing in accordance with the normal printing condition and the trial printing condition.

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27-12-2012 дата публикации

Workgroup management of categorized print jobs

Номер: US20120327456A1
Принадлежит: International Business Machines Corp

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for managing categorized workgroup print jobs. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for workgroup management of categorized print jobs includes receiving from an end user a print job designated for printing in a workgroup printer and determining from the print job whether the print job is should or should not be printed based on its categorization. It additionally can be determined whether or not printing the print job on behalf of the end user encroaches within a threshold value of a remaining allocation of printing resources established for the end user. Finally, in response to determining both that the print job is within a specific category and also that the printing of the print job on behalf of the end user encroaches within the threshold value of the remaining allocation of printing resources established for the end user, further processing of the print job can be restricted.

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27-12-2012 дата публикации

Method of processing a print job within a printing system, a printing system, and a program

Номер: US20120327459A1
Автор: Karsten Huster
Принадлежит: Canon Europa NV

The present invention is generally related to a method of processing a print job within a printing system. The device status of each printer within the network is collected and used for a determination of the energy consumption of the print job. The results of the energy consumption are displayed to a user and the user may designate the most energy efficient printer for printing the print job.

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03-01-2013 дата публикации

Method and system for network diagnostics which shows possible causes on a display of an image forming apparatus

Номер: US20130003111A1
Автор: Toshiyuki Mitsubori
Принадлежит: Konica Minolta Laboratory USA Inc

A method of detecting and displaying network status for an image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a printer controller. The method includes the steps of connecting the printer controller with the image forming apparatus through a first line which a client sends a print job to the printer controller and a second line which transfers the image data. Upon detection of a failure in network connectivity through the first line, transmitting messages from the printer controller and image forming apparatus to the printer controller and the image forming apparatus. The messages sent and received by the printer controller and the image forming apparatus are gathered and based on the gathered messages received and not received by the image forming apparatus and the printer controller, a cause of the failure is detected.

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03-01-2013 дата публикации

Printing system, print data generating device, method of controlling print data generating device and program product

Номер: US20130004223A1
Принадлежит: Seiko Epson Corp

A printing system includes: a control device configures to generate print data; and a printer configured to print the print data transmitted from the control device on a tape, wherein the control device includes a status information acquisition section for periodically acquiring status information including a tape width of the tape loaded in the printer, a display section for displaying an editing screen of the print data and the status information, and a display control section for performing a display control of the display section, and the display control section performs display control of the display section to display a present tape width based on the latest status information acquired, as the status information, on the display section.

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17-01-2013 дата публикации

System and method for automatic recovery of cloud print jobs after printer error

Номер: US20130016377A1
Принадлежит: Individual

A system for automatic recovery of cloud print jobs after printer error. A cloud printing system for transmitting a print job to a printer. A printer control system for receiving status data from the printer and modifying one or more control parameters of the cloud printing system in response to the status data.

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31-01-2013 дата публикации

Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Printer Driver for Causing Computer to Convert Text or Vector Object into Raster Object, and Printing Method with the Printer Driver

Номер: US20130027730A1
Принадлежит: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

A computer-readable recording medium stores a printer driver that causes a computer to function as: a PDL conversion unit configured to convert drawing data received from an application into PDL data; a rasterization unit configured to convert at least one of a text object and a vector object into a raster object when the drawing data is converted into the PDL data; and a communication control unit configured to transmit the PDL data to an image forming apparatus. Before-conversion information, that indicates a data format of the object before the conversion is associated with the converted raster object.

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28-02-2013 дата публикации

Image processing device, image processing system, and printing device

Номер: US20130050737A1
Автор: Kazuki Ichikawa
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

An image processing device includes an acquiring section, a determining section, a storage section, and a reacquiring section. The acquiring section is configured to acquire data based on reference information indicative of a reference location on a network. The determining section is configured to determine whether the acquiring section succeeds or fails in acquisition of the data. The storage section is configured to store the reference information when the determining section determines that the acquiring section fails in acquisition of the data. The reacquiring section is configured to reacquire data based on the reference information stored in the storage section.

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28-02-2013 дата публикации

Approach for Processing Locked Print Jobs Obtained from Other Printing Devices

Номер: US20130050740A1
Автор: Ke Wei
Принадлежит: Ricoh Americas Corp

An approach is provided for remotely processing locked print jobs. A printing device discovers other printing devices on a network that store locked print jobs. A user enters user identification data and the printing device displays the locked print jobs stored on the other printing devices that are associated with the user. The user selects a particular locked print job. The printing device requests the particular locked print job from the printing device that stores the locked print job and then processes the locked print job locally. An approach is also provided for a printing device to forward print jobs to other printing devices. The printing device discovers other printing devices on a network and the printing attributes of those printing devices. The printing device determines another printing device that is capable of processing a print job and forwards the print job to the printing device for processing.

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28-02-2013 дата публикации

Small aio (all in one) printer that uses external storage for the purpose of paper collation

Номер: US20130050762A1
Автор: Hao Hu, Shaun Pinney
Принадлежит: Konica Minolta Laboratory USA Inc

A method implemented in a data processing system including an image forming apparatus for producing a print job, which includes the steps of: (a) receiving data representing a document to be printed in the print job; (b) receiving job information about the print job; (c) determining if the job information includes an instruction to print multiple copies of the document in a collated order; (d) forwarding the data representing the document to be printed in the print job to an external storage unit when multiple copies of the document in collated order have been requested; (e) retrieving the data from the external storage unit; and (f) printing the multiple copies of the document in collated order.

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14-03-2013 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and information setting system

Номер: US20130063761A1
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

An image processing apparatus includes a storing unit that stores setting information for operating the image processing apparatus; and an updating control unit that sends a request for obtaining predetermined differentiated setting information, which is a part of a set of setting information stored in a data processing apparatus in a differentiated manner in accordance with a predetermined differentiating criterion, to the data processing apparatus via a network, obtains the predetermined differentiated setting information from the data processing apparatus via the network and controls to update the setting information stored in the storing unit by the obtained predetermined differentiated setting information.

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28-03-2013 дата публикации

System and method employing variable size mechanical binding elements in virtual rendering of a print production piece

Номер: US20130076731A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the rendering includes one or more binding elements to satisfy the product definition. The modularity further enables different product description formats to be supported by only altering the job ticket adaptation layer, and that different graphics rendering engines can be supported by altering only the rendering layer.

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04-04-2013 дата публикации

Storage medium in which information processing program is stored, information processing apparatus, and information processing system

Номер: US20130083340A1
Автор: Norihiko Asai
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

An information processing program stored in a computer readable storage medium is usable for an information processing apparatus which is configured to communicate with a plurality of devices, which includes a first storage section, in which a driver and a plurality of pieces of port information are stored, and which instructs a control objective device, a port information of which is stored in the first storage section, to execute a function thereof. The program makes the apparatus execute steps including: a receiving step for receiving a status information from the control objective device; a first identifying step for identifying the control objective device; a second identifying step for identifying an alternative device operable by the driver for the control objective device; and a first storage step for storing a port information of the alternative device in the first storage section.

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18-04-2013 дата публикации

Smart phones that include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen, and support for voice activated commands

Номер: US20130095887A1
Принадлежит: Flexiworld Technologies Inc

A new Smart Phone specification is disclosed, the Smart Phone may provide voice activated commands and may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a wireless communication unit, an operating system, a graphical user interface, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and an application for playing audio or video content. The Smart Phone may provide an application programming interface (API) to support applications. The Smart Phone may further include a microphone interface, a speaker interface, and a voice activated command function for receiving voice commands from the user. In some examples, the Smart Phone may take a picture with the digital camera included in the Smart Phone and transfer the picture to a wireless output device; and in other examples, the Smart Phone may stream or transfer digital content to an output device over the air or wirelessly in response to a voice command.

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25-04-2013 дата публикации

Print controlling terminal apparatus, image forming apparatus, print controlling method of controlling terminal apparatus, and image forming method of image forming apparatus

Номер: US20130100489A1
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

A print controlling method, an image forming method and a print controlling terminal apparatus are provided. The print controlling method includes receiving a job command to execute a printing job, determining whether accumulative printing is needed based on a ratio of a number of accumulated organic photo conductor (OPC) revolutions to a number of accumulated output pages of the image forming apparatus, if it is determined that the accumulative printing is needed, accumulating and storing data of the printing job, and, if a number of printing pages of entire data accumulated and stored is greater than or equal to a pre-set threshold number of pages, transmitting all the data to the image forming apparatus.

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02-05-2013 дата публикации

Printing apparatus, printing control apparatus and printing control method

Номер: US20130107301A1
Автор: Toshimitsu Takagi
Принадлежит: Seiko Epson Corp

A multifunction machine includes, a print setting section that performs setting to contribute to a reduction in the environmental load, based on designated content with respect to an operating panel of the multifunction machine or an external computer, an eco-printing judging section that judges whether printing according to the applied setting corresponds to eco-printing which is environment-friendly printing, a logo image attaching section to attach a logo image to an image when the result of the judgment is a correspondence to eco-printing, and a printing controlling section which is caused by a printing engine to print an image to which a logo image is attached.

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23-05-2013 дата публикации

Methods and systems for determining sustainability metrics in a print production environment

Номер: US20130128303A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

A method of determining a print shop sustainability metric over a period of time may include, for each of a plurality of print devices in a print shop, determining a low-activity state sustainability metric value associated with the print device operating in one or more low-activity states over a period of time, determining a print shop low-activity state sustainability metric value associated with the print shop, and determining a processing state sustainability metric value associated with the print device operating in a processing state over the period of time, determining a print shop processing state sustainability metric value associated with the print shop, determining a print shop sustainability metric value and displaying one or more of the low-activity state sustainability metric values, the processing state sustainability metric values, the print shop sustainability metric value, the print shop processing state sustainability metric value and the print shop sustainability metric value.

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30-05-2013 дата публикации

Printer, system and method for monitoring print quality

Номер: US20130135631A1
Автор: Wen-Chi Lin

A printer, a system and a method for monitoring print quality are provided. In this method, during a printout process of a document, the document is scanned at the same time, and scan information is obtained after the printout process is completed. Original information relating to the document is compared against the scan information to determine whether a data loss occurs. An abnormal print message is displayed to warn the user when there is a data loss or the data loss is occurred; otherwise, a normal print message is displayed.

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30-05-2013 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus having energy saving mode learning function and controller therefor

Номер: US20130135659A1
Автор: Shinsaku Tohki, Yukari Ebi
Принадлежит: Sharp Corp

An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information.

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30-05-2013 дата публикации

Method and system for generating connection scoped temporary color devices

Номер: US20130139177A1
Автор: Richard Hughes
Принадлежит: Red Hat Inc

A method and system for creating temporary color devices in a color management module. The color management module is configured to identify the registration of a color device by a management subsystem via a message communication system connection, wherein the registration comprises color device information. The color management module monitors the connection to identify a termination event associated with the subsystem, and removes the color device information automatically in response to the identification of the termination event.

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13-06-2013 дата публикации

Printing condition determining apparatus, printing condition determining method, and storage medium

Номер: US20130148156A1
Автор: Eiji Teraue
Принадлежит: Fujifilm Corp

A group of printing conditions, which have at least one condition item in common except for environmental condition items concerning a temperature and humidity environment for printing, is selected from among a plurality of printing conditions. A list image, which represents a line-up of visible information concerning the temperature and humidity environment depending on the environmental condition items, and which is included in the printing conditions of the selected group, is generated and displayed.

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20-06-2013 дата публикации

Printing system, printing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and data conversion method

Номер: US20130155455A1
Автор: Naofumi Ueda
Принадлежит: Individual

When a printing apparatus designated by a user obtains print data not capable of being printed in the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus transmits the print data to other apparatus with specification information representing a specification of the printing apparatus. In this case, the other apparatus converts the received print data to print data capable of being printed in the printing apparatus based on the specification information, and transmits the print data back to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus prints based on the converted print data.

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27-06-2013 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for generating printed documents with invisible printed conductive patterns as security features for detecting unauthorized copying and alterations

Номер: US20130161387A1
Автор: Chao King
Принадлежит: Konica Minolta Laboratory USA Inc

Methods of generating a secured printed document on paper or other medium by printing a security layer made of a transparent conductive material over the ink/toner layer that forms the visible content of the document. The security layer is printed using a transparent conductive material such as transparent conductive toner or ink and is invisible to human eyes. In one embodiment, the transparent conductive material contains a pattern that forms a radio frequency (RF) transponder circuit which has an RF antenna and a digital memory storing security data, which can be read out and used to authenticate the document. In another embodiment, the pattern forms a memory circuit without an RF antenna. In yet another embodiment, the transparent conductive material is patterned but does not form a functional circuit, and the electrical properties of the security layer such conductivity and/or capacitance are used to authenticate the document.

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27-06-2013 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer readable storage medium storing program

Номер: US20130163050A1
Принадлежит: KONICA MINOLTA INC

An image forming apparatus has a direct print function by which application data is obtained from an external device so that image formation is performed. The image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a classification unit, a discarding unit, a storage unit, an image processing unit and an image forming unit. The obtaining unit obtains the application data. The classification unit classifies the application data into use data used for the image formation and no-use data not used for the image formation on the basis of a predetermined setting related to the image formation. The discarding unit discards the no-use data. The storage unit stores the use data. The image processing unit generates print data on the basis of the stored use data. The image forming unit performs the image formation on the basis of the print data.

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25-07-2013 дата публикации

Print system and print server

Номер: US20130188219A1
Принадлежит: Toshiba Corp, Toshiba TEC Corp

According to one embodiment, a print system includes a client computer connected to a network and configured to generate a document as a print job, a print server connected to the network and configured to store, as an updated print job, the document generated by the client computer and additional information added to the document, a viewing terminal connected to the network and used to view the document stored in the print server and add information to the document, and a printer configured to print the document together with the added information according to a printing instruction.

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01-08-2013 дата публикации

Event Notification System in Which a Terminal is Notified of Events Generated in Devices Via a Network

Номер: US20130194604A1
Автор: Takehiko Asano
Принадлежит: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

An event notification system includes a terminal and devices coupled thereto via a network that process jobs provided from the terminal The device includes a database in which a subscription including an event type and a notification address is registered on the basis of a notification registration request from the terminal In the device, an event generator generates an event with event data indicating a status change within the device. Given the status change of a job, a value indicating a requestor of the job process is included in the event data. When the event data includes the requester, an event notification manager sends a notification to the notification address in the subscription including the values of the status change and the requester, and sends the notification to the notification address in the subscription including the value of the status change.

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08-08-2013 дата публикации

Mobile device actuation of a multifunction peripheral device using near field communication

Номер: US20130201515A1
Автор: Brenda Daos, Sheng Lee
Принадлежит: Toshiba TEC Corp

There is disclosed a method of, mobile device for and apparatus for using a mobile device to actuate a multifunction peripheral device using near field communication. The mobile device includes a user interface for receiving a selection of an electronic document and instructions regarding a selected document processing operation to be performed by the multifunction peripheral and for receiving a selection of an electronic address to which the electronic document is to be directed by the multifunction peripheral. The mobile device also includes a first near field communications transceiver for receiving input indicating that the mobile device is within range of a second near field communication transceiver, for receiving communication, at the first near field transceiver from the second near field communication transceiver, indicating that the first near field communication transceiver is ready to accept the electronic document, instructions pertaining to the selected document processing operation, and the electronic address.

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15-08-2013 дата публикации

Printer driver, information processing apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium recording therein printer driver

Номер: US20130208293A1
Автор: Satoru Yamada
Принадлежит: Individual

A printer driver includes an assigning unit that assigns a setting value based on storage location information specifying a storage location for each setting value; a compressing unit that converts each of the setting values thus assigned to have a format identifying each storage location, and generates compressed data therefrom; a storage unit that stores each piece of the compressed data compressed by the compressing unit in a storage location specified by the storage location information; a first decompressing unit and a second decompressing unit that decompress the compressed data stored in the storage location; a setting window displaying unit that displays a print setting window using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the first decompressing unit; and a print data generating unit that generates print data using each of the setting values obtained by decompression performed by the second decompressing unit.

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15-08-2013 дата публикации

Image output apparatus, method for outputting image, and storage medium

Номер: US20130208300A1
Автор: Masayuki Sakura
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An image output apparatus includes a display unit configured to display on an operation unit a screen including an object indicating that printing is to be performed from a portable terminal apparatus, a generation unit configured to, when the object included in the screen is selected, generate an information code indicating address information and function information of the image output apparatus or an information code indicating the address information and status information of the image output apparatus, a reception unit configured to receive a print job from the portable terminal apparatus having read the information code, and an output unit configured to output the print job received by the reception unit, wherein the display unit displays the information code on the screen.

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15-08-2013 дата публикации

Mobile terminal and non-transitory computer readable medium storing print instruction program

Номер: US20130208312A1
Автор: Kenichi Morita

Provided are a mobile terminal and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing therein a print instruction program. A mobile terminal for instructing one or more printing apparatuses connected to a network to perform printing, includes a touch screen and a control section. The control section is constructed to perform a first process of determining a position or positions of the one or more printing apparatuses viewed from the mobile terminal, and of displaying, on the touch screen, a direction or directions being accompanied with the position or positions of the one or more printing apparatuses; and a second process of, when the control section detects a flick operation on the touch screen along one of the direction or directions, transmitting a print job which gives a print instruction, to one of the one or more printing apparatuses corresponding to the one of the direction or directions.

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for automatically detecting page description languages supported by image production devices

Номер: US20130215451A1
Принадлежит: Xerox Corp

A method for automatically detecting page description languages supported by image production devices in an image production device network may include receiving a print job for printing, determining which page description languages are supported by each image production device in the image production device network, determining if the print job's page description language is supported by one or more image production devices in the image production device network. If the print job's page description language is supported, the print job is printed at one of the one or more image production devices using the print jobs page description language. If the print job's page description language is not supported, the print job is converted to a page description language supported by one of the one or more image production devices, and printed at the one of the one or more image production devices using the supported page description language.

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22-08-2013 дата публикации

Power supply control device, image processing apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing power supply control program, and image processing control driver

Номер: US20130219198A1
Принадлежит: Fuji Xerox Co Ltd

Provided is a power supply control device including a first power supply which is a power supply source of an operating unit and a main control unit, a second power supply which supplies minimum necessary power to create a power-saving state, a switching unit that switches to a power supply source selected from the first and second power supplies, a receiving unit that receives an external request signal, a determining unit that determines whether the external request signal is a switching request signal or a recovery request signal, a switching controller that switches the power supply source to the first power supply when a power-saving state is created, and the external request signal is the switching request signal, and a recovery unit that recovers at least the main control unit when the recovery request signal is received within a predetermined period after the power supply source is switched.

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29-08-2013 дата публикации

Output device and method for output without an output driver

Номер: US20130222618A1
Принадлежит: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

An output device for providing output service to a mobile information apparatus without requiring a device specific output driver installed at the mobile information apparatus. The wireless output device may include an operating system, a wireless communication unit for radio frequency communication, a display screen, and a user interlace over the display screen, the output device may include features for installing one or more application software at the output device for expanding the capabilities of the output device, registering the output device with a control point over a network and providing an identification of the output device for enabling one or more mobile information apparatuses to transmit output data to the output device. Subsequent to registering the output device and providing the identification information of the output device, the output device receives output data associated with the identification information from the mobile information apparatus for rendering.

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12-09-2013 дата публикации

Secure Management of 3D Print Media

Номер: US20130235412A1
Принадлежит: Mercury 3D LLC

A system for printing 3D objects protects a 3D object file from being copied by separating the file into a series of instructions for printing the 3D object and sends those instructions piecemeal to a printing facility. The system enforces a methodology that forces the print facility to delete a previous set of instructions before the print facility can receive the next set of instructions to print a 3D object. By using such a system, the print facility never has the entire 3D print file in memory, preserving the rights of the creator of the 3D print file.

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12-09-2013 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus and scanned data process method

Номер: US20130235426A1
Принадлежит: Individual

An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus.

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19-09-2013 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for dimensional printing

Номер: US20130241930A1
Принадлежит: Electronics for Imaging Inc

Limitations of conventional dimensional printing techniques are addressed to provide features and flexibility not presently available, including extracting images selectively from a Postscript® or PDF file and thus enable texturing of individual images within a page; constructing the texture automatically directly from the image using image processing techniques; visualizing the texture to be applied to an image via construction of a bump map or normal map in openGL and DirectX®; adjusting texturing parameters via visual feedback in openGL and DirectX®; and inserting a clear texture back into a PDF file for printing automatically.

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19-09-2013 дата публикации

Information processing system, user terminal, information processing device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

Номер: US20130246509A1

An information processing system comprises a user terminal and an information processing device. A remote operation screen image for remotely operating the information processing device is displayed with the user terminal so that the information processing device is operated by remote control via the user terminal. The information processing device includes: a screen image controlling part for receiving operation information from the user terminal; a contents determining part for determining if contents accessed by a browser are internal contents of the information processing device when the operation information is a process request requiring start up of the browser; and a browser controlling part for starting up a first browser on the information processing device when the internal contents are to be accessed, and sending a browser start up instruction to cause start up of a second browser installed on the user terminal when external contents are to be accessed.

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26-09-2013 дата публикации

Computer-readable recording medium, information processing apparatus, and printing system

Номер: US20130250361A1
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

In the invention, an information processing apparatus comprises: a document data receiving unit configured to receive document data of a plurality of pages to be printed; a setting information receiving unit configured to receive special duplex printing in which a page layout manner differs on a first side and a second side in setting information used for performing printing; and a print data generating unit configured to produce print data in which the pages are laid out on the first side in a first layout manner and on the second side in a second layout manner different from the first layout manner as the print data for causing a printing apparatus to print the document data received by the document data receiving unit, when the special duplex printing is set in the setting information received by the setting information receiving unit.

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10-10-2013 дата публикации

System, method and software for reducing printer colorant usage

Номер: US20130265599A1
Принадлежит: International Paper Co

A system, method, and printer controller software for reducing printer colorant usage by using printer controller software which controls the deposition by the printer of the printer colorant on the printable medium in response to selected print image quality and printer colorant reduction criteria, as well as identifying printer colorant deposition characteristics of the printable medium, identifying characteristics of the printer, and identifying characteristics of the printer colorant.

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14-11-2013 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

Номер: US20130301079A1
Автор: Satoshi Hirakawa
Принадлежит: Canon Inc

An information processing apparatus includes a first control unit configured to display a shortcut corresponding to a program of an application and associate both of a first print queue corresponding to a first peripheral apparatus and a second print queue corresponding to a second peripheral apparatus with the application, and a second control unit configured to, if no print queue associated with the application is determined to exist after the shortcut is displayed, hide the shortcut corresponding to the program of the application, with different addresses assigned to the first peripheral apparatus and the second peripheral apparatus.

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21-11-2013 дата публикации

Image forming apparatus, communication system and communication method

Номер: US20130308163A1
Автор: Masafumi Okigami
Принадлежит: Sharp Corp

An image forming apparatus receives image data by a receiver from an external device and forms an image based on the received image data. The image forming apparatus transmits an address of the receiver to the external device. The image forming apparatus receives image data transmitted with the address by the external device. The communication between the external device and the image forming apparatus is performed wirelessly. The image forming apparatus displays a list of file names of image data transmitted from the external device with the address of the receiver.

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28-11-2013 дата публикации

COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Номер: US20130314747A1
Принадлежит: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

In a communication system, an image forming apparatus sends an address of a receiving section to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal receives a selection of an image data among plural thumbnails displayed on a display section, and wirelessly sends the selected image data to the image forming apparatus with the address. The image forming apparatus receives the selected image data sent with the address by the mobile terminal, and prints an image based on the selected image data. A communication between the mobile terminal and the image forming apparatus is performed wirelessly with an IEEE 802.11 standard. The image forming apparatus rejects a connection establishment request from another mobile terminal except for the mobile terminal, when the wireless communication with the mobile terminal is established. 1. A communication system having a mobile terminal and an image forming apparatus that comprises a receiving section for receiving an image data from the mobile terminal and prints an image based on the received image data , whereinthe image forming apparatus comprises a sending section that sends an address of the receiving section to the mobile terminal,the image forming apparatus makes the receiving section receive an image data sent with the address by the mobile terminal,a communication between the mobile terminal and the image forming apparatus is performed wirelessly with an IEEE 802.11 standard, a data selection receiving section that receives a selection of an image data among plural thumbnails displayed on a display section; and', 'an image data sending section that wirelessly sends the selected image data with the address to the image forming apparatus,, 'the mobile terminal comprisesthe image forming apparatus makes the receiving section receive the selected image data, when the selected image data is sent with the address from the mobile terminal, andthe image forming apparatus rejects a connection establishment request from another mobile terminal ...

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28-11-2013 дата публикации

Communication system, communication method, and image forming apparatus

Номер: US20130314748A1
Принадлежит: Sharp Corp

In a communication system, an image forming apparatus sends an address of a receiving section to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal receives a selection of an image data among plural thumbnails displayed on a display section, and wirelessly sends the selected image data to the image forming apparatus with the address. The image forming apparatus receives the selected image data sent with the address by the mobile terminal, and prints an image based on the selected image data. A communication between the mobile terminal and the image forming apparatus is performed wirelessly with an IEEE 802.11 standard. The image forming apparatus deletes the address of the mobile terminal when the communication with the mobile terminal through the receiving section is finished.

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26-12-2013 дата публикации

Color image formation apparatus, color image formation system, color image processing method, and non-transitory storage medium having color image processing program stored therein

Номер: US20130342860A1
Автор: Hiroko Ono
Принадлежит: KONICA MINOLTA INC

A color image formation apparatus includes: a containing unit containing a plurality of developers; an image formation unit for performing an image formation process using at least a part of the plurality of developers; a control unit for causing the image formation unit to perform the image formation process with color change for at least one of colors designated by a job to be processed being made such that the image formation process can be performed using a developer not restricted in use when a part of the plurality of developers is restricted in use; and a reception unit for receiving designation of a change-prohibited color, which is a color not to be changed by the control unit. The control unit causes the image formation process to be performed while prohibiting, in the color change, change of the change-prohibited color of the colors designated by the job to be processed.

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09-01-2014 дата публикации

Information processing system, printing apparatus, and information processing method

Номер: US20140009782A1
Автор: Hirotsuna Miura
Принадлежит: Seiko Epson Corp

Each of controllers includes an error management section that generates an error command including an error code indicating the content of an error when the controller detects the error. A host apparatus includes a host controller. If the error command from the master controller and the error command from the slave controller are identical to each other, the host controller displays a single piece of error information on a monitor. Specifically, the single piece of error information includes the error code included in the error command and an error message corresponding to the error code.

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16-01-2014 дата публикации

Service providing system, service providing method, and non-transitory computer readable information recording medium

Номер: US20140016816A1
Автор: Kazuhiro Yamada
Принадлежит: Ricoh Co Ltd

A service providing system includes an information storage apparatus including a storage part storing electronic data; and an operation terminal connected with the information storage apparatus. The service providing system carries out an output service of outputting electronic data stored in the storage part using one or more electronic apparatuses from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses. The service providing system determines the one or more electronic apparatuses from among the plurality of electronic apparatuses based on information, the information being input from the outside of the operation terminal in response to an operation performed on the operation terminal, receives selection of the electronic data to be output from among the electronic data stored in the storage part, and transmits the electronic data to the one or more electronic apparatuses determined by the determination part, for outputting the electronic data using the one or more electronic apparatuses.

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30-01-2014 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and storage medium storing program executable on information processing apparatus

Номер: US20140033090A1
Автор: Kazutaka Yamada
Принадлежит: Brother Industries Ltd

An image processer executes image processing. An interface unit provides a user interface which receives an operation relating to the image processing from users. A receiver receives user information by an input method selected by the user among a plurality of input methods that are different from each other. A controller executes, when the receiver receives an input of the user information, making at least one of a first determination of whether the user interface is to be provided and a second determination of which one of a plurality of user interfaces is to be provided, depending on the input method when the receiver receives the user information. The controller executes controlling the interface unit according to one of a result of the first determination and a result of the second determination.

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27-02-2014 дата публикации

Printing device, printing control method and recording medium

Номер: US20140055810A1
Автор: Miyoshi Sasakura

A LAN control unit receives print data from a client device or the like. An input job storage unit registered on a hard disk a series of PDL commands included in the print data received. An input job queue management unit registers print job specifying information specifying a print job represented by the print data received to the end of an input job queue. A PDL interpretation/execution unit successively executes from the head of the series of PDL commands stored on the hard disk device. When it is determined that the PDL command that has been executed is a re-execution unnecessary command, the PDL interpretation/execution unit overwrites the PDL command stored on the hard disk with a NOP command.

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06-03-2014 дата публикации

Printer Control System and Method

Номер: US20140063550A1
Автор: Richard Wilen
Принадлежит: WILopEN Products LC

A printer control system to facilitate configuration of the settings for a printing device. The printer control system may configure a printing device with an at least partially automated process. The printer control software may include a client component installed on the computer to establish a bi-directional communication to receive and transmit printer control settings. A virtual printer may be installed and configured respective to settings for a form specifiable by a user. A method is provided for facilitating the configuration and operating of a printing device.

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