Device independent spooling in a print architecture

Details Device independent spooling in a print architecture Device independent spooling in a print architecture

1996-11-20

1998-12-01

Bayerl, Raymond J.

395112, G06F 308

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ABSTRACT:
Print jobs are automatically and transparently spooled in a device-independent format, such as an enhanced metafile format. The enhanced metafile format provides a format into which documents are readily converted and which occupies a minimal amount of storage space. Each spooled print job is asynchronously printed relative to a program that requested the print job. Such spooled print jobs are de-spooled in a background processor mode. An operating system provides the resources for converting a print job into enhanced metafile format and spooling the print job in the enhanced metafile format.

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